The transition from Dance on Your Knees into Out of Touch is nothing short of amazing, really you need to listen to the album on vinyl. The song though does feel like a man kind of on the edge of this rope, that he wants to be with this woman, yet she is just out of reach. I like that line where he sings "Broken ice still melts in the sun, And ties that are broken can often be one again." I find there to be a nice meaning behind the former, because regardless if your relationship is good or struggling, everyone is still subject to the same issues/experiences. The latter speaks to me with a sense of optimism, that broken things can be fixed. As someone who is going through a breakup, there is definitely a personal emotional investment in that idea. Life is too short to not work on things you find worth fixing.
The transition from Dance on Your Knees into Out of Touch is nothing short of amazing, really you need to listen to the album on vinyl. The song though does feel like a man kind of on the edge of this rope, that he wants to be with this woman, yet she is just out of reach. I like that line where he sings "Broken ice still melts in the sun, And ties that are broken can often be one again." I find there to be a nice meaning behind the former, because regardless if your relationship is good or struggling, everyone is still subject to the same issues/experiences. The latter speaks to me with a sense of optimism, that broken things can be fixed. As someone who is going through a breakup, there is definitely a personal emotional investment in that idea. Life is too short to not work on things you find worth fixing.