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Hangin' on here until I'm gone
Right where I belong just hangin' on
Even though, watched you come and go
How was I to know you'd steal the show?
One day I'll have enough to gamble
I'll wait to hear your final call bet it all
Hangin' on here until I'm gone
Right where I belong, just hangin' on
Even though, pass this time alone
Somewhere so unknown, it heals the soul
You ask for walls, I'll build them higher
We'll lie in shadows of them all
I'd stand, but they're much to tall
And I fall
February stars re floating in the dark
Temporary scars
February stars
February stars floating in the dark
Temporary scars
February stars
February stars floating in the dark
Temporary scars
February stars
Right where I belong just hangin' on
Even though, watched you come and go
How was I to know you'd steal the show?
One day I'll have enough to gamble
I'll wait to hear your final call bet it all
Hangin' on here until I'm gone
Right where I belong, just hangin' on
Even though, pass this time alone
Somewhere so unknown, it heals the soul
You ask for walls, I'll build them higher
We'll lie in shadows of them all
I'd stand, but they're much to tall
And I fall
February stars re floating in the dark
Temporary scars
February stars
February stars floating in the dark
Temporary scars
February stars
February stars floating in the dark
Temporary scars
February stars
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"hanging on
here until I'm gone
I'm right where I belong
just hanging on
even know I watched you come and go
how was I to know
you'd steal the show?"
In this verse what is being said is "we have been good friends forever, I have developed feelings beyond just friendship".
"one day I'll have enough to gamble
I'll wait to hear your final call
and bet it all"
Here he is waiting to build up enough courage to tell her how he feels and see if she feels the same way. Bet is all is a reference to the value of their friendship and his feelings. He could ruin both by telling her.
"I'm hanging on
here until I'm gone
right where I belong
just hanging on
even know I pass this time alone
somewhere so unknown
it heals the soul"
This really paints a picture of someone just staring into the sky reflecting on their feelings. "Hanging on" represents time passing, day by day, week by week, month by month.
"you ask for walls
I'll build them higher
we'll lie in the shadows of them all
I'd stand but they're much to tall
and I fall"
Here walls represent the boundaries of friendship. He builds these walls higher as he enjoys their friendship and spending time with her, but he has built the walls so tall he will never be able to get over them to something more than friendship, so he gives up and and comes to accept that friendship is the only thing this relationship will ever be.
"February stars
Floating in the dark
Temporary scars
February stars..."
The final words and instrumentals of this song really represent the bittersweet feelings one can have when they come to a moment of truth. In this case it is that their friendship will always be something special, but it will only be a friendship. Now, all alone in a field in the middle of no where, a man lays staring at the stars and the blackness of space and comes to terms with his feelings.
Here's what it means to me: a guy sacrificed everything he could for this relationship, and then the girl left him. Hence the "one day I'll have enough to gamble" (suggesting that he'll work his way back up) and the "bet it all". He knows that the pain he's in is only temporary (temporary scars) but it still hurts way too much.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I like that interpretation cause that's exactly what happened to me a month ago or so, and I'm still kind of struggling with it.. I just love this song.s\
'you ask for walls I'll build them higher
we'll lie in shadows of them all
i'd stand but they're much too tall
and i fall'
But maybe its cos thats what I want to hear lol. I see this song as hanging on to someone even though its over, and not quite wanting to move on, but having a sort of indifference to it as though you're seeing it from someone elses point of view...
Please, cut the shit with the Kurt Cobain references. You're looking for something thats just not there. The song was done well before 1994, as were quite a few songs on the first and second record.
Its getting really comical now.