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Your love is like finger nails on a chalkboard
Your love is like throwing myself overboard
A breakdown on a motorway
A heart attack on Christmas day
Like scaling a cliff then falling off
Like trying not to cough
And I didn’t see this one coming, now I’m in too deep
I didn’t see this one coming, now I’m in too deep
I think I’ll just keep swimming down, down, down
There’s no point in trying to turn back now
I’m drowned
I’m drowned
Your love is like sand inside a bathing suit
Your love is a symphony with the sound on mute
A letter sent to the wrong address
Or red wine on a wedding dress
Like broken bones in my playing hand
Like trying to swallow sand
Cos I didn’t see this one coming, now I’m in too deep
I didn’t see this one coming, now I’m in too deep
I think I’ll just keep swimming down, down, down
There’s no point in trying to reach dry ground
I’m drowned
I’m drowned
Your love is like one last breath of salty air
Your love is like a map that leads to nowhere
A wine glass on a concrete floor
The overuse of metaphor
The straight ahead in a sideways glance
Like the misstep in a dance
Cos I didn’t see this one coming, now I’m in too deep
I didn’t see this one coming, now I’m in too deep
I think I’ll just keep swimming down
There’s no point in turning round
I’m drowned
I’m drowned
Your love is like throwing myself overboard
A breakdown on a motorway
A heart attack on Christmas day
Like scaling a cliff then falling off
Like trying not to cough
And I didn’t see this one coming, now I’m in too deep
I didn’t see this one coming, now I’m in too deep
I think I’ll just keep swimming down, down, down
There’s no point in trying to turn back now
I’m drowned
I’m drowned
Your love is like sand inside a bathing suit
Your love is a symphony with the sound on mute
A letter sent to the wrong address
Or red wine on a wedding dress
Like broken bones in my playing hand
Like trying to swallow sand
Cos I didn’t see this one coming, now I’m in too deep
I didn’t see this one coming, now I’m in too deep
I think I’ll just keep swimming down, down, down
There’s no point in trying to reach dry ground
I’m drowned
I’m drowned
Your love is like one last breath of salty air
Your love is like a map that leads to nowhere
A wine glass on a concrete floor
The overuse of metaphor
The straight ahead in a sideways glance
Like the misstep in a dance
Cos I didn’t see this one coming, now I’m in too deep
I didn’t see this one coming, now I’m in too deep
I think I’ll just keep swimming down
There’s no point in turning round
I’m drowned
I’m drowned
Lyrics submitted by so_f*cking_rock
Track duration: 03:54
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I thought this meant even though this a painful love, it's still love, and he's in too far to get out cleanly.
Finger nails on a chalkboard - horrible
Throwing myself overboard - giving up
A breakdown on a motorway - annoying
A heart attack on Christmas day - tragic
Like scaling a cliff then falling off - falling off a cliff? How is that not terrible?
A symphony with the sound on mute - if a symphony is all about the music, the mute makes it pointless
A letter sent to the wrong address - a waste
Or red wine on a wedding dress - ruin
Like broken bones in my playing hand - set back
I'd actually really like someone to show me the other side of this song, because it really is beautiful.
Throwing myself overboard - willingly losing control
A breakdown on a motorway - out of your control
A heart attack on Christmas day - sudden chaos on a peaceful day
Like scaling a cliff then falling off - hurting yourself while doing what you enjoy
A symphony with the sound on mute - frustrating
A letter sent to the wrong address - meaningful, in a way we don't even consider
(Even you didn't consider that SOMEONE recieves the letter, so it does have a "meaning" and it wasn't "a waste".)
Or red wine on a wedding dress - an unfortunate twist to an otherwise perfect day
Like broken bones in my playing hand - Hurts to keep going.
If I still haven't made them sound like descriptions of love, then I don't know what can..
I think this song is about how we often love SO much, it becomes almost unbearable - yet we keep on willingly losing our control, head over heels in love.
Our feelings are often out of our control and even though the bad times hurt like hell, the good times is why we keep going on.
"Your love is like a map that leads to nowhere", because it's more about the journey, than the destination.
"A wine glass on a concrete floor", fragile...
"Like trying not to cough", almost impossible to resist
I think those metaphores do describe love in all it's chaotic senseless fragile beauty, that we do not for the reward, but... for.. reasons we don't even know.
It's like trying to swallow sand - sometimes just impossible...
And right now I'm in a situtation, where me and my girlfriend kinda broke up, since she thought it's good for both of us, but we both ended up crying, we both ended up missing eachother before the day was through, and we both ended up in eachothers arms.
Right now I'm not sure what's around the corner... I'm not sure are we dating or not.. and though filled with uncertainty and fear, I'm insanely happy that we ... still do love eachother. That .. we didn't really break up, at least not yet.
Bittersweet, I know.. But I wouldn't have it any other way.
BTW, this song features in a movie "Two Fists and One Heart" and somebody's put the scene of Tim playing this in a bar up on YouTube.
It's a really painful decision to make, it's "like trying not to cough". That's brutal! But he won't let go of everything he values that is weighing him down (his work, his family's high hopes, his commitments) just to be with this new person. It's too late to start anything.
That's how I read the lyrics. Tho my interpretation probably says more about my personal life than anything else!
i can't listen to this song enough at the moment. I think that it says that he is in some ways annoyed/frustrated by how much he is in love. Maybe he hasn't felt like this before and it is confusing for him. He feels drowned in the love that he feels for this person and feels he cannot turn back because he is 'in too deep'. Possibly this is causing him unhappiness because of this, maybe even he hates the fact he loves this person.
this is amazing. he can do beautiful and funny. he's a genius.