So its another night in my brain
'Cause I can't sleep
And oh, it wears on your shoulders
Just please don't ever leave
Me here, don't ever leave me
Don't you leave

Start out like a sailor
And bring back all you need
So everyone else can
Try and get some sleep

It turns out you were into yourself
It turns out you can fuck your way out
Just once more for my baby girl

It turns out you were into yourself
It turns out you can fuck your way out

And so I woke up near the sea,
The sand in my dreams
Cause now you are already falling back in love with me
Just fall back in love, yeah
Just fall back in love

Start out like a sailor
And bring back all you need
So everyone else can
Try and get some sleep

It's just the season on your back
It's just the way we know to act

It's just the season on your back
It's just the way we know to act

It turns out you were into yourself
It turns out you can fuck your way out
Just once more for my baby girl

It turns out you were into yourself
It turns out you can fuck your way out

And no one ever knew...



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    General Comment:To me this song is about a guy who is in love and was in a relationship with a girl that has a lot of issues.

    He keeps dreaming she'll be better, but it just never happens.

    "It turns out you were into yourself, it turns out you could fuck your way out"

    She's a cheater. She sleeps with other guys to try forget her love for him.

    "Cause now you are already falling back in love with me
    Just fall back in love, yeah
    Just fall back in love"

    She can't help but fall back in love with him, no matter how many guy she sleeps with and brings home-"Bring back all you need"

    All she ever knew was to never fall in love and he always knew this about her-"It's just the season on your back, It's just the way we know to act"

    Basically, he knows she's not going to fall out of love with him and will always come back, and she'll keep sleeping with other guys trying to forget about him.
    Flag BelleyButtonon October 21, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I was listening to this song today and got a slightly different view on it. I mean it's probably totally off but I thought it was interesting.

    I saw it as maybe this guy has been screwed over in the relationship and so to retaliate and possibly win the girl back he's been having sex with other people, partially to make her jealous and partially to distract him from what he's really feeling.
    I got this from the chorus because having myself recently breaking up with someone then going a little wild I realized constantly hooking up with other people wasn't going to make me feel better about the situation.

    "it turns out you were into yourself" she didn't want to be with him, causing the split
    "it turns out you can't fuck your way out" he's realizing that having loads of sex isn't going to erase the pain

    and then in the second verse he's dreaming that the things he's done have brought her back to him, and that she is falling back in love with him, even though she's clearly not, as you can see because in the verse he goes from being sure she's falling back in love with him, to begging her for it "just fall back in love".
    Flag lilyloveson June 16, 2010   Link
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    Song Meaning:Yeah, In the Booklet from the CD the lyrics Say "fuck" not "find".
    I agree w/ kissmeimeskimo to an extent.

    He knows how this girl works. And he hates that he loves her, but he cant stop loving her. So even though she treats him like shit, She'll keep coming back to him, and He'll keep letting her, because that's the only way he can have her.

    anyways. The whole Illuminate Album can be read as a story, if you look at it right, and know some of the bands history. They really are magnificent.
    Flag TeylorUndeadon July 26, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:it is "fuck." Mindy just told me haha. it was driving me crazy
    Flag fkjiwefakrison May 24, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:To me is sounds like a man with two realities: one of what could be and the other of his reality actually is.In his dream or alternate reality he believes that she can still love him after the obviously harsh break up which cause his resentment, but while he's awake he is fighting his feelings and cursing her name.
    Flag chrisgfon May 17, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:No he says "fuck" in the song....at first i thought it was "find" even when i was reading the lyrics somewhere else i thought it was wrong....but in one of their shows that i went to he VERY distinctly said "fuck"
    Flag lindoriquenoon March 26, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:it's kind of hard for the word to be find when the word find doesn't have a hard c/k sound at the end, though.
    Flag butImeantloveon March 08, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:i thought he said "find" as well, but i'm pretty sure it actually is "fuck" lol cuz i bought the album online from amazon & there's an (explicit) warning next to this song title.
    Flag kissmeimeskmoon August 17, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:are you sure he says "it turns out you could fuck your way out?"
    cause i'm betting he says find
    Flag yallRstupidon August 10, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I love this song. When he says, "just once more for my baby girl" I get chills.
    Flag TerribleThings___xon March 25, 2008   Link

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