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And all of your ways and all your thunder,
Got me in a haze runnin' for cover,
Where we gonna go from here,
Where we gonna go from here
The carlights in the driveway,
Wonder whos goin, comin' my way
Tomorrow were turnin' down the highway,
With another bright stage, on a weekday
The green grass, and a radio,
Watching it fly past, then away we go,
700 places, 700 faces more
[Chorus]
And all of your ways in all your thunder,
Got me in a haze runnin' for cover,
Where we gonna go from here,
Where we gonna go from here.
The back of your eyes look like my mothers
When we talk you're like my brother,
Where we gonna go from here,
Where we gonna go from here.
The time is, movin' on a side,
How could I miss you, to another guy,
Pull up the ocean, and the roarin' tide is
Bigger than my eyes, or my desire
My father, got a best pin, savin' a daughter, for the best man,
700 places, 700 faces more
[Chorus]
Now I've waited and I'll wait some more
Won't see you knockin' on another door
But all this is crazy and amazing
There's only one I've found, us that I'm saving
So I'm praying just to let it go
Watch from a distance just to see you grow
700 places, 700 faces more
[Chorus]
Got me in a haze runnin' for cover,
Where we gonna go from here,
Where we gonna go from here
The carlights in the driveway,
Wonder whos goin, comin' my way
Tomorrow were turnin' down the highway,
With another bright stage, on a weekday
The green grass, and a radio,
Watching it fly past, then away we go,
700 places, 700 faces more
[Chorus]
And all of your ways in all your thunder,
Got me in a haze runnin' for cover,
Where we gonna go from here,
Where we gonna go from here.
The back of your eyes look like my mothers
When we talk you're like my brother,
Where we gonna go from here,
Where we gonna go from here.
The time is, movin' on a side,
How could I miss you, to another guy,
Pull up the ocean, and the roarin' tide is
Bigger than my eyes, or my desire
My father, got a best pin, savin' a daughter, for the best man,
700 places, 700 faces more
[Chorus]
Now I've waited and I'll wait some more
Won't see you knockin' on another door
But all this is crazy and amazing
There's only one I've found, us that I'm saving
So I'm praying just to let it go
Watch from a distance just to see you grow
700 places, 700 faces more
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by xtrabiotoxin
Track duration: 04:06
"Where We Gonna Go from Here" as written by Mathew Kearney
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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"I'm praying just to let it go and watch you grow", isn't about completely ending the relationship but about letting go to trust God that in time if it's meant to be it will keep growing.
I like the theory about the 700 faces at the wedding though; I don't think that's the original intent but it has a lot of good love-sick romantic angst to it that makes for a really good story!
To me it's about a guy and girl who are very, very close friends. The kind of friendship where he's there for her, she's there for him, and things were good.
The guy, over time, starts to have feelings for her. She gradually becomes a bigger and bigger part of his life, his world - she is what gets him through the day, what he looks forward to when he wakes up each morning, what makes him smile no matter what other crap he has to deal with in his life.
He is convinced it isn't just some infatuation, but a true connection, something special: "When we talk you're like my brother". "The back of your eyes look like my mother's" suggests that, when he sees her laugh (the kind of full, genuine laugh where your eyes roll back slightly), he sees in her a special beauty, reminiscent of his dear mother. The combination of these two lines demonstrates how she means something very special to him; she's more than just any friend to him.
However, the guy eventually realizes that the feelings he has aren't mutual. He's never confessed them to her, but he's observant enough to see the signs that she only sees him as a good friend. She means the world to him, their friendship means the world to him, and he would never want to ruin it by confessing his feelings when they aren't mutual.
When he realizes this, it dawns on him that he's in a major bind. He wants to move on, get over her, for the sake of preserving their good friendship. But as long as they are close friends, and he sees that smile and hears that laugh that he cares for so much, he's not sure he can will himself to move on.
I believe it is at this point of time, this realization, that the guy writes this song. These are the words that will probably never reach her ears, the words he wants to get down on paper and out of his head. He's frustrated with himself, because he wants to get over her so that they could still be the close friends they were, but the process of getting over her will change their friendship just as much. He is afraid that he won't see her the same way and won't think of her the same way. So he writes this song out of fear and frustration and confusion, so that he can get these feelings down while he still has them, before he inevitably changes. They will serve as a proof to his future self, or to the girl even, of the feelings he had for her - proof that, if things ever end up bad between them, that he only had good intentions.
Continuing with the interpretation..
"All of your ways and all of your thunder, got me in a haze running for cover": These lines, repeated throughout the song, demonstrate his frustration with the situation he's in. She means the world to him, but since he cannot be with her and has to get over her, everything she does now reminds him of his confusion ("haze") and makes him just want to run away. To get over her, he's not allowing himself to smile as widely or laugh as genuinely at what she does, otherwise he'll never be able to move on. And so whenever she does anything, anything, even be in his presence, he would rather just run away ("for cover") so he does not have to deal with having to force a half-hearted smile to the person he cares for more than anything.
The question "Where we gonna go from here?", repeated in the chorus, and is the title of the song, is the crux of the song. In the setting I've described, he's asking this question to no one but himself, which emphasizes to himself how one sided his feelings are. He's frustrated that he's asking this question, because all he wants is to be able to go back to the magical friendship they had earlier, when things didn't have to be so complicated. He cannot ask this question to her, because she has no intentions for their friendship to "go" anywhere. And so he repeats this question over and over when he's alone, half of him genuinely wondering "where we gonna go from here?" and the other half of him hating himself for wondering this. If he could simply stop these questions, then things would not have to be weird between him and her, but then again there would not be the same magic as before if he didn't have these questions in the back of his mind. And so he keeps repeating the question, truly wondering where things are going to go between him and her.
The first verse demonstrates how much this frustration is consuming him; it is all he can think about. "Tomorrow we're turning down the highway, with another bright stage, on a weekday" is an understatement of all these concerts (representative of all the other events in his life) he's going to. Despite how important these other events in his life are, all he can think about is her, the situation he's in, and wonder "where we gonna go from here?" The line "700 places, 700 faces more" serves a similar purpose; despite all the new things that come into his life, all he can think about is her.
In the second verse, he starts to recognize that he needs to just calm down. "Time is moving on our side": he acknowledges that time will eventually work things out for him. He realizes that he's overthinking everything; that, as big as his problems seem to him, in the scope of everything else in the world ("pull of the ocean, and the roaring tide"), it barely means anything at all. But he can't simply accept this, and goes back to the "700 places" line and the chorus to drown in his frustration.
In the third verse, he's a bit more calm than in the previous verses and knows what he has to do, despite how much it sucks to him. "Now I've waited and I'll wait some more, won't see me knocking on another door" is him admitting that he does have feelings for her, this he cannot deny. It is also him saying that these feelings are special; she's not just some other girl for him to become infatuated with. He admits that these feelings are strong still ("I'll wait some more"), and that he won't be able to quickly/easily get over her because of how special she is ("won't see me knocking on another door").
"There's only one half of us that I'm saving" is him saying that, no matter what happens between them, no matter how things change between them, he's doing it all for her, not for him. He's going to bear with all this frustration, confusion and sadness so that he can save her from dealing with any drama or strangeness; this is how much he cares for her.
"So I'm praying, just to let it go, watch from a distance just to see you glow": this is him praying, hoping that eventually he'll let it go and get over her. He hopes that, even if they end up not close friends anymore, he can still "watch from a distance" and see her "glow" that beautiful, amazing "glow" he has seen so many times before. He's also afraid that, through all the frustration, he will end up seeing her in a bad light in order to get over her. He does not want this; he wants to get over her while still being her friend, so that he can see her "glow" and be happy for her.
Despite these hopes and prayers to change, he still goes back to the nostalgia, confusion and bitterness of the chorus, because he's not yet fully over her. He knows what he has to do, but to him it simply sucks that things have ended up as they are between him and her. He misses her and how things used to be.
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I miss you. I miss the way you brightened the room, the way I could be myself and say what I want and know that you wanted to listen. I miss when I felt like I meant something special to you, when you were happy to see me, when you would say "I don't like it when you aren't here". Now things are different between us, and it sucks. I want you to know that you will always mean something special to me, and everything I did I did for our friendship.
I hope one day we will be able to be the friends we once were.
"The back of your eyes look like my mother, when we talk you're like my brother."
It suggests a familiarity that goes beyond just some random girl that he likes.
"700 faces, 700 places."
I see that as a reference to the fact that they've spent a lot of time together, been a lot of places, seen a lot of faces, had a lot of memories.
"Father got a best plan, saving his daughter for the best man."
He knows her life, the way her father is, that he wants the best man for her.
The line "where we gonna go from here?" also suggests that there is some kind of mutual relationship.
Basically, I would interpret it as: "You're my best friend, and I don't want to see you with anyone else, but I love you enough to let you go, what are we gonna do about it?"
It's about all the failed attempts they tried at relationships with other people; about all the opportunities they missed for them to be finally together and the opportunities they intentionally passed up because of fear or some other trivial reason people use to run away from Love.
I think.
Sure, he's 29, so it's probably not a personal experience. But it could be something similar.
But it's gorgeous song, no matter what it means.
Another epiphany: could this be about a divorce, and the wedding in retrospect?
I'm hearing the 700 faces and thinking the wedding guests.
If you know the general story at the end of season two is where I am focusing. Jim likes Pam, who is married. She wants to stay with her husband because it is a sure thing, though she does have some feelings for Jim as well. They then kiss at the end of season two. From there, Jim wants to know where are they gonna go from there. Do they just pretend it never happened? Do they get together?
The song talks about those times when something happens between two people, and they want to know the dirrection they are going to take it. Friends, friends with benefits, just dating, exclusively dating, or anything else. Good song.
As for "when we talk you're like my brother", that's more about a relationship of equality, a friendship with a person that you connect to, that gets you, it's more evident not when he stares at her but when they talk, share, communicate openly- they're on the same level.
I was also wondering if maybe this song is from the perspective of having already lost her to another forcing a choice to travel and see 700... leaving her behind, but still keeping an eye on her from a distance, watching her develop into a more beautiful person, but next time he gets the oppurtunity he won't lose her to another, like he laready did before.
In the meantime his life feels like it's a haze, not sure where he's going and who will come his way "carlights in the driveway" and that question always on his mind "where we gonna go from here"
rethorically he wonders, not because he doesn't know what to do but because the answer is not in his power, he'll have to wait and see.
a guy and a girl who are walking the fine line between being friends and well, more than friends. he loves her but can't tell her and would rather just sit back and watch her rather than interfere with the relationship they already have as friends.
just my thoughts..love this song.