He doesn't want to forget how her voice sounds, and he needs these words he's written about her just to get by. The guy clearly loves her, as he's forgiven her for lots of stuff before (everything in fact) and does in fact want sympathy in the form of her having sex with him. (So SAD!) Also, the part about showing spine "you've been saving for his mattress" again show that she's cheating on him. To reiterate my last point, "these are the lives (plural, VERY key) you'd love to lead" she would like to live this double life of cheating on this guy, but now that he almost found out and she dumped him, she can't. i know this is sort of a stretch, and there isn't really any evidence in the song for it, but that's my best explanation for this part of the song. He probably has a lot of it and ideally she'd like to marry him but have affairs with other guys, and still take his money. Now the reason she's probably in a relationship with him is for his money. This might lead one to believe that they're married, but i think this unlikely because of the first stanza and the fact that this seems to be a sort of almost regular thing for her (you "always" fold just.), and if they were married it would be a first. Now why is this move a "last call" or "last resort." One has to look at her motives for being in this relationship with him in the first place if she loved another guy for a while. This move is a "last resort" because its actually a desperate move for her (I'll get to that later) and "only the first mistake" at least in his mind, because he loves her so much that he's forgiven her for everything she's done before this. The being found out part leads me to believe that she was cheating, and right when he was about to find out, she dumped him. I believe this right here is the most difficult, interesting and crucial stanza: "no one should ever feel like" which are too pretty bad things that might come emotionally from finding out that his girlfriend cheated on him. Now as for why i say the girl has been cheating on him: for starters, the guy is clearly not a happy guy at this point, his life is "it can't be much worse" vs. I say girlfriend on some time but not too long because the context of the opening stanza makes the most sense in that context. In my opinion this song is about a guy who's girlfriend (of at least some time, but not too long) was cheating on him. Well i would say some lyrical differences in some versions people have posted are very important. It just goes to show that there are 16 pages worth of posts on this song. This is possibly the most interesting song lyrically that i've ever heard. I only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with meĭance this is the way they'd love (way they'd love)ĭance this is the way they'd love if they knew how misery loved me You've been saving for his mattress? (Mattress, mattress) You've been saving for his mattress, love?ĭance, this is the way they'd love if they knew how misery loved me Why don't you show me a little bit of spine You always fold just before you're found out These words are all I have so I write them She says she's no good with words, but I'm worseīarely stuttered out a joke of a romantic stuck to my tongueĪnd I don't want to forget how your voice sounds
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