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Two sides twist and then collide
You're coming off the guard, I'm coming through (Am I coming through)
A torturous condition to a spin cycled submission
You know sometimes it just feels better to give in
(Sometimes it just feels better to give in)
And it's all too familiar and it happens all the time.
All the cards begin to stack up,
Twisting heartache into fine little pieces that avoid an awful crime
But it's you I can't deny.
Though he rises from the sheets above the patient boy and a jealous man
(Am I coming)
But double standard off suspicion is remedied, oh, my blue heaven
Sometimes it just feels better to give in
(Sometimes it just feels better to give in)
And it's all too familiar and it happens all the time.
All the cards begin to stack up,
Twisting heartache into fine little pieces that avoid an awful crime
But it's you I can't deny.
We swing and we sway
As this tiny voice in my head starts to sing,
"You're safe, child, you are safe"
(You're safe, child, you are safe)
You're safe, child, you are safe.
We swing and we sway
As this tiny voice in my head starts to sing,
"You're safe, child, you are safe"
You're safe, child, you are
Safe (Safe) (Safe) You are safe
We swing and we sway
As this tiny voice in my head starts to sing
"You're safe, child, you are safe"
(Am I, coming through)
Is this all too familiar? Does it happen all the time?
I'm just asking you to hear me;
Could you please just once just hear me?
More than anything, you wanted to be right
So it's you, you, it's you I can't deny
(You I can't deny)
It's you I can't deny.
You're coming off the guard, I'm coming through (Am I coming through)
A torturous condition to a spin cycled submission
You know sometimes it just feels better to give in
(Sometimes it just feels better to give in)
And it's all too familiar and it happens all the time.
All the cards begin to stack up,
Twisting heartache into fine little pieces that avoid an awful crime
But it's you I can't deny.
Though he rises from the sheets above the patient boy and a jealous man
(Am I coming)
But double standard off suspicion is remedied, oh, my blue heaven
Sometimes it just feels better to give in
(Sometimes it just feels better to give in)
And it's all too familiar and it happens all the time.
All the cards begin to stack up,
Twisting heartache into fine little pieces that avoid an awful crime
But it's you I can't deny.
We swing and we sway
As this tiny voice in my head starts to sing,
"You're safe, child, you are safe"
(You're safe, child, you are safe)
You're safe, child, you are safe.
We swing and we sway
As this tiny voice in my head starts to sing,
"You're safe, child, you are safe"
You're safe, child, you are
Safe (Safe) (Safe) You are safe
We swing and we sway
As this tiny voice in my head starts to sing
"You're safe, child, you are safe"
(Am I, coming through)
Is this all too familiar? Does it happen all the time?
I'm just asking you to hear me;
Could you please just once just hear me?
More than anything, you wanted to be right
So it's you, you, it's you I can't deny
(You I can't deny)
It's you I can't deny.
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Track duration: 04:09
"My Blue Heaven" as written by Adam Burbank/mascherino Lazzara
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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“Two sides twist and then collide…Adulterous conditioned to a spin cycled submission,
You know, sometimes it just feels better to give in.”
It seems that these two people had been together in the past and now the girl is in a relationship with someone else.
“Dull heat rises from the sheets.
I’m both a patient boy,
Well, and a jealous man.”
The reference to sheets is post coital and he is expressing that he is willing to wait for her to leave her boyfriend, but he’s also jealous of her being with him, too.
I know from experience that love triangles are angst ridden, but sometimes, “It’s you I can’t deny.”
"Two sides twist and then collide
You're calling off the guards, I'm coming through (Am I coming through..)
Adulteress conditioned to a spin cycled submission
"You know sometimes it just feels better to give in"
(Sometimes it just feels better to give in)"
The two sides twisting and colliding is not just their lives,it's a reference to their bodies. In a nutshell, they're sleeping together. The girl let her guard down and finally let him in and gave in to what she and they both really wanted.
And it's all too familiar and it happens all the time.
All the cards begin to stack up,
Twisting heartache into fine little pieces that avoid an awful crime
But it's you I can't deny.
This part is a little more obvious, this clearly happens all the time. They have slept together on numerous occasions and it keeps piling up, the cards being emotions of any sort; pleasure, frustration, everything that comes with having sex with someone you have tried to stay away from...but he can't deny her what she wants no matter how hard he tries.
Dull heat rises from the sheets,
I'm both a patient boy... (well) and a jealous man
(Am I coming...)
But double standardarized suspicion is remedied,
Oh My Blue Heaven
"Sometimes it just feels better to give in..."
(Sometimes it just feels better to give in)
The dull heat rising from the sheets is a huge no brainer to me, obviously they've been laying in bed for a while after sex, he's a patient boy in that he knows she will always come back to him, he just has to wait but a jealous man in that he wants her to himself instead of knowing she's with others but the double standard of suspicion is that he is sleeping with others as well. It's remedied because he can't really expect her to be monogamous if he isn't either...but still it feels better to give in.
And it's all too familiar and it happens all the time.
All the cards begin to stack up,
Twisting heartache into fine little pieces that avoid an awful crime
But it's you I can't deny.
We swing and we sway
as this tiny voice in my head starts to sing,
"You're safe, child, you are safe"
(You're safe, child, you are safe)
You're safe, child, you are safe.
This part always swings me a little bit, I think the tiny voice in his head is the reassurance that she still wants him and that he is "safe" from being left, one of a child's worst fears is abandonment so the patient boy in him is safe and not alone.
We swing and we sway
as this tiny voice in my head starts to sing,
"You're safe, child, you are safe"
You're safe, child, you are..
Safe.. (Safe).. (Safe)... You are safe..
We swing and we sway
as this tiny voice in my head starts to sing
"You're safe, child, you are safe"
(Am I.. coming through)
Is this all too familiar? Does it happen all the time?
I'm just asking you to hear me;
Could you please just once just hear me?
More than anything, you wanted to be right
Still it's you, you, it's you I can't deny..
(You I can't deny)
It's you I can't deny.
This part kills me every time I hear it. I have had a relationship like this where we both just couldn't fucking stay away from each other. He's asking if it's all too familiar and if it happens all the time because he's doubting what's going on with them, just asking her to hear what he's saying, he's telling her he cannot deny her above all other girls, he wants her the most and is begging her to just hear him out one time. I believe that "more than anything you wanted to be right" is him saying that she wanted to do the right thing and stop using him basically but as hard as they both try, she keeps coming back and as hard as she tries to stay away from him she can't help but give in and he can't say no when she comes knocking...it's hard to stay away from your blue heaven, anyone who has had someone like this and tried to stay away knows that. I cry whenever I hear this song because of what it reminds me of; twisting up and colliding in the arms of the one person I can never stay away from, no matter how many times I try to stop myself I know he will never be able to deny me if I can convince him that it's what I want. So messed up yes, but sometimes it just feels better to give in....
"And it's all too familiar and it happens all the time.
All the cards begin to stack up,
Twisting heartache into fine little pieces that avoid an awful crime
But it's you I can't deny."
This describes the sort of heartache I think most people go through after a breakup- you can be fine whenever you keep busy and don't think about it, but then when you are alone the thoughts creep into your head and "all the cards begin to stack up" and it gets worse and worse.
I think "my blue heaven" is when the persona cuts themself. I interpretted this by breaking up the phrase: blue referring to the depression and heaven referring to the amazing feelings cutting can provide. Personally I did it because that pain of cutting took my focus off the emotional pain that I was already going through which feels a lot better. "sometimes it just feels better to give in" (although I have to say I REALLY don't recommend it at all it just makes things worse in the long run)
I got the feeling that the persona thinks their ex has moved on with the "double standard" line because it talks about the suspicion again being remedied by this magical blue heaven. The double standard for me is trying desperately to move onto someone else while hoping even harder that your ex doesn't get to be with someone new either (although the persona is "suspicious"- a big part of the limerence they feel).
In the end I come to the conclusion that these lyrics are MADE to be interpreted in different ways, so that they appeal to a wide audience. This is how they have come to me and I relate to them so I enjoy the song- that's great. The song might be about something else entirely but that doesn't matter.
"Two sides twist and then collide, you're calling off the guards. I'm coming though (Am I coming through?)"
This is an "opposites attract" sort of thing, at first a guy and a girl maybe either don't get along or are complete opposites (two sides twist), then they both find that they do indeed have things in common, and the guy begins to fall in love with her (and then collide). It may seem to him that at first she is beginning to have the same feelings for him (your'e calling off the guards), but then asks himself if he's certain that that's the case (Am I coming through?)
"Adulturess conditioned to a spin cycled submission, you know sometimes it just feels better to give in"
This part was a little confusing and i'm not entirely certain of the first part in particular. But the best I could think of is that this girl keeps spinning in his head and he can't get her out (conditioned to a spin cycled submission), but decides against trying to get her out and keeps thinking of her (sometimes it just feels better to give in).
"And it's all too familiar, and it happens all the time. All the cards begin to stack up, twisting heartache into fine little pieces that avoid an awful crime, but it's you I can't deny."
He's thinking of all the times he's fallen in love with someone, only to be rejected or watched things fall apart. He's been here before (And it's all too familiar, and it happens all the time). All these times, the same things happen - he feels that each time is the time that it will finally work out, but that he is fooled in the end (all the cards begin to stack up, twisting heartache into fine little pieces) despite being afraid that this could be another failure, he assures himself that this time is different and that she is the one (but it's you I can't deny).
"Dull heat rises from the sheets, I'm both a patient boy and a jealous man"
He is getting frustrated, this is probably going nowhere at the moment and this is frustrating him (dull heat rises from the sheets). He tells himself to be patient, that maybe if he waits it out, that something will come of it, but he wonders why this can't get up off the ground - perhaps there is another guy involved that she prefers over him (I'm both a patient boy and a jealous man).
"My double standardized suspicison is remedied, oh my blue heaven".
This part is another confusing one that leaves me lost, it's mostly the "double standardized suspicsion" part. But I think "My Blue Heaven" may refer to feeling the blues, or being down. He is in a state of loneliness because this girl isn't giving him a chance after all, and he sarcastically calls this state his "Blue Heaven".
He repeats the chourus as if to go back to his original thoughts, that this time may be just like all the others, but still concludes that this girl is the one (still it's you I can't deny).
"We swing and we sway as this tiny voice in my head starts to sing 'your'e safe child, you are safe'"
I think this may actually be an answer to a prayer, hence the connection to Adam's faith in God. He probably gets to the point where he feels God is the only one who can help him figure this out, and after praying, he and his thoughts try to gather (we swing and we sway), then he feels a sence of peace as if God is trying to tell him that everything will be alright (Your'e safe child, you are safe), even though he is still unsure of what the outcome may be. I know it may be a stretch but that's immediately what I thought when I first heard that line.
"I'm just asking you to hear me, could you please just once, just hear me?"
He's at the point where he's done everything he can to get this girls attention, and is trying one last time to get it. He's probably laying everything on the line (could you please, just once, just hear me?)
"More than anything you wanted to be right, still it's you I can't deny"
He is talking to himself at first, realizing this may be all he's got left to give. He thinks he may have tried so hard for her attention because he wanted to prove to himself that this time, she really was the right one (More than anything you wanted to be right). He stops talking to himself and thinks instead for a moment, only to come to the conclusion, yet again, that he can't deny that he loves her. (Still it's you I can't deny)
An extremely poetic way of saying "No matter what, you'll always be the one I love".
This is my absolute favorite TBS song, just ahead of "Where My Mouth Is". It's definetely one of the best written songs of it's kind, and I consider it to be TBS's greatest work. Of course, it may help that i've been in this excact situation before, but who hasn't? It definetely connects to the truest moments of life and is spewing with realism. Awesome.
"Twisting heartache into fine little pieces that avoid an awful crime" and "I'm both a patient boy... (well) and a jealous man (Am I coming...)" make it seem like she's now with someone else, and he still has feelings for her but she's with someone else now. So it hurts him, but since they are friends, he'll be patient and he just ends up convincing himself and others he's perfectly fine because he's tired of being heartbroken and being sad.
"And it's all too familiar and it happens all the time." and "But it's you I can't deny." The first one seems like it's saying that it seems so cliche, but (now to the second quote) he'll always love her, and he will always be her friend. And he can't deny that he really wants to be just with her.
Also the "And it's all too familiar" line seems like this keeps happening, she comes to him and he keeps falling back in love with her when he thinks he's getting over it.
"Sometimes it just feels better to give in..." seems like he is just going to give in with whatever it is that she wants to do, he won't fight it. LIke staying friends - becasue staying friends never helps after breaking up.
"We swing and we sway..." that part seems like I said before, he'll always love her, so he'll be there when her and her boyfriend (after him) break up to make her feel better.
I don't know for sure, but that's my idea. I related it to my situation, so it makes sense, but it might just all be confusing and weird.
It's mostly the two lines that affect me the most "Sometimes it just feels better to give in. And it's all too familiar and it happens all the time." Like the feelings you have are so powerful yet everything around you tells you that they are cheap because it's so familiar, and it seems so cliche.
"But it's you I can't deny." No matter how cheap everyone says your feelings are you know they are there, and you can't deny it in yourself. Another person, your feelings for them. You can't change it, no matter what you do.
Maybe that's why it's so intense for me o.O Sorry, rambling. lol
Two sides twist and then collide
You're calling off the guards
I am coming through
Adulteress conditioned to a spin cycled submission...
"You know, sometimes it just feels better to give in"
It felt better to give in.
But it's all too familiar
And it happens all the time
All the cards begin to stack up
Twisting heartache into fine little pieces that avoid an awful crime
Still it's you I can't deny...
A dull heat rises from the sheets
See, I'm both
A patient boy... and a jealous man
Am I coming through?
My double standardized suspicion is remedied,
Oh remedy,
My blue heaven
My sweet surrender
My blue heaven
(Take two of these then call me in the morning)
Most times it's just easier to give in.
I was easier to give in.
So that's just what I did and now as
We swing and we sway
This tiny voice in my head starts to sing
"You're safe child, you are safe."
You're safe child, you are...
Is this all too familiar?
Does it happen all the time?
I'm just asking you to hear me...
Could you please,
Just once,
Just hear me...
More than anything you wanted to be right...
You want more than anything to be right
Still it's you...