Lyrics
I've been hanging 'round in someone else's town
I've been lingering in a town that doesn't belong to me.
And it's made me feel simplified.
This experience has simplified my feelings or perspective.
There's too much hanging around my neck
I carry too much emotional baggage or burdens.
I'd have blown it all to keep you on the telephone.
I would have spent everything just to keep talking to you.
Though all the streets are cleaned of streaks
The streets are clean and not tainted by memories.
and tarnished not by memories.
It saddens me to feel the pressure to live life quickly.
It makes me sad to feel the need
to live my life at such a great speed.
Imagining laying down and watching unfamiliar skies with you.
And I would lay you down,
and we'd watch the clouds
Revisiting the idea of laying down and watching clouds.
roll over skies we wouldn't recognise,
Visualizing a different, unrecognizable life.
but instead there's flowers in the yard,
Flowers in someone else's yard signify a missed opportunity.
of someone else's house
I won't look into their life.
I won't look in those windows.
Though all the streets are cleaned of streaks
Repetition of the idea that the streets are clean and memories are not tarnished.
and tarnished not by memories.
It makes me sad to feel the need
Reiteration of the sadness in living life too fast.
To live my life at such a great speed.
And what we say today may,
Words spoken today may not always have a lasting impact.
not always carry water well.
Refusal to abandon a commitment prematurely.
But I refuse to leap from vessels
Choosing not to leave a situation before it unfolds.
before they've even set sail.
Don't aim for the horizon.
Discouragement from aiming for distant goals.
It's only an illusion
The horizon is an illusion, leading to a cyclical return to the starting point.
leading you back where you started from.
And there's no time to fuck around for too long.
No time to waste on indecision or procrastination.
And this could come undone,
Potential for things to go wrong, but only a fool doubts agreements from the start.
but only a fool enters agreements
thinking they were wrong.
-So I would lay you down (I would lay you down),
Revisiting the idea of laying down, watching stars, and blurring the vision of the distant future.
And we'd watch the stars come out
and blur our eyes at the distance, oh.
-And what we say today may,
Repetition of the transient nature of spoken words.
not always carry water well.
But I refuse to leap from vessels
-before they've even set sail.
-Don't aim for the horizon.
-It's only an illusion
-leading you back where you started from.
-And there's not time to fuck around for too long.
-No, there's no time to fuck around for too long.
Emphasis on the urgency of not wasting time.
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