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Time on your side it'll never end
The most beautiful thing you can ever spend
But you work in a shirt with your name tag on it
Drifting apart like a plate tectonic
It don't matter to me
All I wanted to be
Was a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar
Too much time spent dragging the past up
I didn't see you not looking when I messed up
Settling down in your early twenties
Sucked more blood than a backstreet dentist
It don't matter to me
All I wanted to be
Was a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar
[Chorus]
Oh my God I can't believe it
I've never been this far away from home
Oh my God I can't believe it
I've never been this far away from home
Oh my God I can't believe it
I've never been this far away from home
Oh my God I can't believe it
I've never been this far away from home
Bright ruins lit for a greater glory
The only thing growing is our history
Knock me down I'll get right back up again
Come back stronger than a powered-up Pacman
It don't matter to me
All I wanted to be
Was a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar
[Chorus: x2]
The most beautiful thing you can ever spend
But you work in a shirt with your name tag on it
Drifting apart like a plate tectonic
It don't matter to me
All I wanted to be
Was a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar
Too much time spent dragging the past up
I didn't see you not looking when I messed up
Settling down in your early twenties
Sucked more blood than a backstreet dentist
It don't matter to me
All I wanted to be
Was a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar
[Chorus]
Oh my God I can't believe it
I've never been this far away from home
Oh my God I can't believe it
I've never been this far away from home
Oh my God I can't believe it
I've never been this far away from home
Oh my God I can't believe it
I've never been this far away from home
Bright ruins lit for a greater glory
The only thing growing is our history
Knock me down I'll get right back up again
Come back stronger than a powered-up Pacman
It don't matter to me
All I wanted to be
Was a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar
[Chorus: x2]
Lyrics submitted by frozen_in_fire
Track duration: 03:36
"Oh My God" as written by Kate Marie Nash
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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-In the first verse: The person knows the importance of time, how jobs consume that resource, how it makes him bad in the inside (the drifiting part) and how he feels "unfamiliar" at that moment.
-In the second (pre-chorus): this person states his will to get away from that place, how that thing doesn't matter to him and his will to get to somewhere more familiar.
-Chorus: this persons finally find freedom to do leave that place (it can be either by the use of drugs, like escaping reallity, or travelling to another place)
-The third verse is basically about how he has to come back to his reality and how his "escape" have made him stronger.
the man has fallen into a routine which is below him
the first verse is the woman trying to get him out of it, "there's time on your side..." is her telling him he has such great potensial and he could do anything
"but you work in a shirt..." is her pointing out how he is choosing to waste that potensial
the pre-chorus "but it dont matter to me..." is him trying to act like he doesn't care about it
the second verse is where they start argueing, too much time spent dragging the past up" is her telling him hes living in the past and needs to move on
"i didnt see you not looking when i messed up" is him saying she is too quick to critisise him
"settling down in your early twenties" is her saying he has resigned himself to a dull life without living properly first
"suck more blood than a backstreet dentist" is him snapping at her, that she drains the life out of him the way a bad dentist would have to suck the blood from a patients mouth
the third verse is when they begin to drift apart
"great ruins make for a greater glory" is him justifying his life, him being the ruins, he feels that his life has broken him but that makes him better than her as she has not suffered the way he has
"the only thing growing is our history" is her looking back over the futility of their floundering relationship
"knock me down i get right back up again, i come back stronger than a powered up pacman" is him taker her previous comment as a way of knocking him and making him feel guilty, he feels that all the pain makes him stronger but he really just raises for a while before falling deeper into the shattered shards of his own existance.
the chorus is the man's life in a nut-shell, he fears anything that is not farmilliar, repeating over and over because he cannot accept getting what he supposedly whished for earlier "all i wanted to be was a million miles from here". this song overall is about the decline of a persons life when they refuse to progress
To me, home in this song is routine, what society expects from you, and even an old self. And being away from home is leaving these old views and expectations and just doing what you want.
1st verse: "Time on your side..." : it's never too late to do what YOU want. "But you work...": you are following the norm, working 9-5 at some pointless job.
The chorus: Being away from home, from what you have been socialized to think, you are somewhere more familiar, closer to your true self.
2nd verse: people focus too much on the past and the future (finding a mate, having a family). And not on the present and themselves.
3rd verse: You might get knocked down by leaving your comfort zone and taking the less traveled road, but you'll always get back up on your feet.
That's the way I see it as it pertains to my current situation :)
What an incredible song. Some of the best lyrics put out in the past few years.