Twinge Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Kopo93 

Cover art for Twinge lyrics by Chevelle

I believe this song relates love and/or addiction. Man meets woman and falls in love. Soon, he spirals into drug addiction and loses himself. Eventually, he loses her as well and can no longer cope, so he falls further into his addiction to try to bury those feelings. It is the moment between his last high and his next hit that he feels that twinge of pain as the memory of his love and reality hits him. Or it could be just about a love lost. Love and pain hang so precariously from the same thread. Man loses the love of his life because he becomes someone she can't love anymore. The man loses his grip on reality and lives in a state catatonic depression, remembering all the happy moments they shared, making up new ones and in certain moments, the reality peeks through and a twinge of pain sends him back into the memories and fantasies he's created. Either way, a man loses his way and cannot cope with the reality he created, refusing to face it. It's such a beautiful, haunting and depressing theme that you can't help but love and identify with.