Three sleepless nights
This isn't how it's supposed to be
But you're so good at taking your time to get back to me
I will wait for you forever
If you would just ask me
I thought that i could change you, but you've changed me
It doesn't feel right holding someone elses hand
Together on phone lines, living at two opposite ends
It scares me to think that you could find takers other than me
And better than me
But your head is elsewhere and i'm talking enough for the both of us
When will you see? it's not (it's not) so easy for me
Youre careless (i fall from ) and whisper (your eyes)
(i trusted) insulting and bruising (i thought that you said forever)
And i thought that you said things were improving
These laces are untied, but my feet are still walking away. away.
(laces .. are .. untied .. but my feet .. are walking away)
I never thought that you could say these words, is this really happening?
I never thought that you could say these words, is this really happening?
(don't say ..)
I never thought that you could say these words, is this really happening?
(don't say that we ..)
I never thought that you could say these words, is this really happening?
(don't say that we can still be .. )
I never thought that you could say these words, is this really happening?
(don't say that we can still be friends.. )
Erase my name, from this page.
How can you take all these days?
(what is inside me, what have i done?)
And throw them away
(is this the only way that you'll notice me?)
As i sit here waiting for you.
(dead words for closed ears all this is sung for you)
I stay up nights
(if you're still pretending this is what's right)
Until stars leave the sky
(why can't you look at me can you only see)
Knowing what my dreams take away
(one side your side, can take away)
I think this is about a couple who have broken up and have both found someone else. But he doesn't seem to like being apart from her - "It doesn't feel right holding someone else's hand".
"Together on phone lines, living at two opposite ends" - Means that they're not living together.
I think the next couple of lines mean that she has split up with him for someone else who is 'better than him'.
"These laces are untied, but my feet are still walking away" I think this means that there are still things that need to be said but he's just leaving it out. The next bit is him thinking back to her breaking up with him, and how she suggested they can still be friends. "How can you take all these days and throw them away?" He wonders how she could just throw away their time together and move on like that.