Ok...to me, this song is talking about divorce. The "real revolution" is freedom from a toxic marriage/bond, since the goal of a revolution is to gain freedom from oppression, whether societal or personal. The "Where you're not below me anymore" line is alluding to the idiom "Crabs in a barrel." The person leaving sees their ex as someone who pulled them down or held them back, and the revolution frees them from that. The "Already using different names" line eludes to either the ex wife going back to using her maiden name or any cudtom names/terms of endearment they used when in love have changed. Basically if you called your ex "Sugar bear", youre not gonna call your new SO that. But I believe its the former considering the fact that the music video shows mostly women lip syncing the lyrics, and the majority of divorced women go back to using their maiden names. The "Building the houses, claiming back the land/Burning the bridges, cleaning up your hands" lines alludes to the dividing and claiming (or reclaiming) assets during the divorce proceedings (marital property and such), and of course the "cleaning up your hands" means the divorce is all done. The burning of the bridges means this marriage was irreconcilable and there's no turning back. The "Now our love has something for the future/Now our love will grow the seeds to sow this real revolution" lines means that everyone learned from their mistakes and now understanding them, they vow to never love because they learned it will never be enough to conquer all, but thats a revolutionary thought because before, their love seemed to conquer all. Now they have freedom from those misconceptions about love conquering all and they no longer have to live with such expectations. Its a bittersweet ending, but at least it ends.
Ok...to me, this song is talking about divorce. The "real revolution" is freedom from a toxic marriage/bond, since the goal of a revolution is to gain freedom from oppression, whether societal or personal. The "Where you're not below me anymore" line is alluding to the idiom "Crabs in a barrel." The person leaving sees their ex as someone who pulled them down or held them back, and the revolution frees them from that. The "Already using different names" line eludes to either the ex wife going back to using her maiden name or any cudtom names/terms of endearment they used when in love have changed. Basically if you called your ex "Sugar bear", youre not gonna call your new SO that. But I believe its the former considering the fact that the music video shows mostly women lip syncing the lyrics, and the majority of divorced women go back to using their maiden names. The "Building the houses, claiming back the land/Burning the bridges, cleaning up your hands" lines alludes to the dividing and claiming (or reclaiming) assets during the divorce proceedings (marital property and such), and of course the "cleaning up your hands" means the divorce is all done. The burning of the bridges means this marriage was irreconcilable and there's no turning back. The "Now our love has something for the future/Now our love will grow the seeds to sow this real revolution" lines means that everyone learned from their mistakes and now understanding them, they vow to never love because they learned it will never be enough to conquer all, but thats a revolutionary thought because before, their love seemed to conquer all. Now they have freedom from those misconceptions about love conquering all and they no longer have to live with such expectations. Its a bittersweet ending, but at least it ends.