I'm just a dog-eared page you turn back to.
Where's the place for me
when we're both in love with you?

I can't escape these friends
I've made since you left town
They throw redundant parties
where I'm too often found.
And while I sit and watch girls and boys
trade views of new tattoos,
I wonder if it's too late to call your mom
and catch up on some news.
She says you'll be home soon for me--

And it'll be just like you were never gone.
I'll try to be just some guy you're getting on.
But basically, we're both in love with you.
I'm just a dog-eared page you turn back to.
Where's the place for me,
when we're both in love with you?

I've got these "friends" in quotes
and girls* with asterisks.
I watch the time wither
and fall from my wrist.
Out on the porch Van Morrison
is bleeding through the walls.
I don't think your roommate
has been writing down my calls.
She says you'll be home soon for me--

And it'll be just like you were never gone.
I'll try to be just some guy you're getting on.
But basically, we're both in love with you.
I'm just a dog-eared page you turn back to.
Where's the place for me,
when we're both in love with you?

You said the distance
Would make a difference
But it didn't.

It'll be just like you were never gone.
I'll try to be just some guy you're getting on.
But you and me, we're both in love with you.
I'm just a dog-eared page you turn back to.
Where's the place for me,
when we're both in love with you?



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    General Comment:"dog-eared page." i didnt really know what this meant until i was reading a novel a couple weeks ago. but then it all made sense :D
    Flag AMTILTSTHEMATCHESon March 12, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:the matches sound nothing like the killers. sorry. the matches are way better. more originality. if you read about the killlers, the band members are assholes, too. their first album was pretty good though. i'll give 'em that.
    Flag AMTILTSTHEMATCHESon March 12, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song is about a guy who is into this girl & is with her to some degree but she's got someone else as well and he can't figure out where he fits in with her and this other guy. And he's trying to get his life going on his own but everything he does seems like a lame attempt like fake friends ("friends") and one night stands (girls*).

    It reminds me of my last relationship cuz my ex had this girl who he'd always go back to when he was single and through out our relationship, I didn't feel comfortable about it and now that we're not together, I don't know how I'm supposed to still fit into his life when he's got this other girl whose always been there.
    Flag riiot.on December 09, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Where's the place for me
    when we're both in love with you?

    I loveee that part.
    Flag princessKATIEon August 11, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i like this song. the lyrics are actually pretty clever, and i like how he's still willing to wait for her to get over herself.
    Flag jam_stickson July 09, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i agree with jasonresno definatley something like that she went away and was like u'll get over me because of the distance and it never did.. god i wish shawn harris was in love with me like this! haha
    Flag stevealon May 21, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I agree with the collage/someplace idea. It seems like he's in love with a girl that went off to collage (etc.) and he suspects that she's dating a guy there behind his back (and that her roommate is lying to him), but wants to keep him as an option back home if this relationship falls through. Now, he's back at home without her, and he's seeing himself in the same routine, going to lame parties.
    The line "I've got these "friends" in quotes / and girls* with asterisks" is him saying he doesn't have any real/good friends, and he's got girls that he's close to, but none that he's dating (becasue he's with the girl at collage).
    The line "You said the distance / Would make a difference / But it didn't" could be that him and her were having problems before she left, and she told him that going away could help this.
    Flag CarpeNoxon March 28, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:girls in asterisks its all IM lingo. friends in quotes? "omg tom that was awesome" and girls in asterisks? something like *Ashley* stuff like that. its all for msn names or crap like that
    Flag tehunderdashpwnon March 04, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:"You said the distance
    Would make a difference
    But it didn't."

    My take on that line is perhaps she said to him: "Hey when i move away, i'll be too far away and you'll get over me" And he didn't.
    Flag jasonresnoon May 01, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:One part of the song I don't get is the lines:

    "You said the distance
    Would make a difference
    But it didn't."

    To me this kind of goes against the rest of the song, which seems to suggest that the distance is making a difference. Anyone agree? Disagree?
    Flag Jimmifrisbeeon March 20, 2006   Link

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