Sometimes I Feel Like My Arm's Falling Off
Longing in Silence: A Journey of Unrequited Love and Solitude
Lyrics
Sometimes I feel like my arm's falling off
Sometimes the speaker feels a sense of fatigue or detachment.
I've been reaching so long for you
The speaker has been making efforts to reach someone.
But you're in the place
The person the speaker is trying to reach is in a place where all addresses are forgotten or lost.
Where all the addresses erase
There's a sense of hopelessness as the addresses disappear, and the speaker feels powerless.
And there's nothing that I can do
The speaker acknowledges the inability to change the situation.
Just slurp on my stasis
The speaker is in a state of stagnation or lack of progress.
I fell in love with every waitress from Sylvan Lake to Pontiac
The speaker reminisces about falling in love with waitresses across different places.
Memorized their makeup and their eyes as they take up
-A plate from here into the back
-I'm aware that I'm disappearing
The speaker is aware of their own disappearance or fading away.
It seems to be the natural way
Disappearance is seen as a natural process for the speaker.
Oh, goddamn
An exclamation expressing frustration or realization.
Could you say you've ever been lonely?
Questions challenging if the listener has truly experienced loneliness.
Could you say you've ever really been lonely?
-Could you say you've ever been lonely?
-'Cause I don't think you have
-Sometimes I feel like our old answering machine
The speaker compares themselves to an old answering machine with countless nights stored.
With an infinity of nights inside
Reflecting on the remnants of past messages and experiences that have died.
Choke on the vestiges of soft-spoken messages
-From a lifetime that crawled off and died
-So I spin like a floodlight in the sky above so bright
The speaker recalls risky behavior in their youth, seeking the thrill of danger.
From the nightclub a couple miles from here
-Where as kids in the danger we'd solicit a stranger
-To buy us cigarettes and beer
-And I'm alone at St. Hugo
The speaker is alone, waiting for connection, possibly metaphorically in a mental space.
When there's nowhere else to go
-When there's nothing in the slush to find
-I'm waiting for my mother
-Or the touch of another
-In the computer lab inside my mind
-But I remember the feeling
Reflecting on past fears and the inevitability of facing them.
Before the ceiling
-Buckled under its own weight
-I've tasted our fear since
-The initial appearance
-Of the expiration date
-I'm aware I'm being evicted
Awareness of eviction, possibly symbolizing a sense of loss or departure.
I used to hold the skeleton key
-Oh, goddamn
An exclamation expressing frustration or realization.
Could you say you've ever been lonely?
Reiteration of the questioning about the listener's experience of loneliness.
Could you say you've ever really been lonely?
-Could you say you've ever been lonely?
-'Cause I don't think you have
-Sometimes I feel like my arm's falling off
Repetition of the feeling of physical detachment and reaching out.
I've been reaching so long for you
-Oh, goddamn
An exclamation expressing frustration or realization.
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