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Over Elkin Avenue
The helium balloon, disappears into the sky
You give some money to a junkie
Watch as the sunny day drifts by
Can't tell you why
You said you loved me
And I kind of believe that
But these days who knows what it means
So we sat by the laundry Matt with magazines and cigarettes
Talked about a million other things
These are the last words
I'll say to you
These are the last words
I'll say to you
I never saw the world the way the city looks me to today
I never thought the end would come this way
These are the last words
I'll say to you
Last night I dreamed that somebody had died
And it was one of us
I did the biggest thing that I could
But I was not enough
These are the last words
I will say to you
The helium balloon, disappears into the sky
You give some money to a junkie
Watch as the sunny day drifts by
Can't tell you why
You said you loved me
And I kind of believe that
But these days who knows what it means
So we sat by the laundry Matt with magazines and cigarettes
Talked about a million other things
These are the last words
I'll say to you
These are the last words
I'll say to you
I never saw the world the way the city looks me to today
I never thought the end would come this way
These are the last words
I'll say to you
Last night I dreamed that somebody had died
And it was one of us
I did the biggest thing that I could
But I was not enough
These are the last words
I will say to you
Lyrics submitted by joan_of_snark
Track duration: 04:54
"Last Words" as written by Leroy/beck Bonner
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Next stanza we see how completely disconnected he is. This person tells him that they love him, and look at the response...not "I love you too". Not "I don't feel the same". But, "what does that even mean?" I've known people like this. People that are just so engrossed in the misery of the human condition that they can't feel or see things on a normal level. Rather than deal with the emotion expressed to him, they "talk about a million other things", which I imagine to be about war, famine, the crumbling environment. All the negative things that are driving this person to such a desperate act.
"These are the last words I'll say to you" because I am going to end it all.
And now for a lyrics correction: "I never saw the world look the way, the city looked to me today." Because this is going to be my last day on earth. "I never thought the end would come this way."
And now the part that clinched it for me that this is about suicide and not breaking up. He says flat out he "dreamt that somebody had died and it was one of us." HIM. I don't know what "the biggest thing" is that he did. Maybe it was trying to love someone. Maybe it was seeking help. But whatever it was it "was not enough" to change his mind about wanting to end it all.
I love the song, and I think it's awesome that its so peppy and upbeat yet so dark.
"So we sat by the laundry matt with magazines and cigarettes
Talked about a million other things
These are the last words
I'll say to you
These are the last words
I'll say to you
I never saw the world the way the city looks me to today
I never thought the end would come this way
These are the last words
I'll say to you
Last night I dreamt that somebody had died
And it was one of us
I did the biggest thing that I could
But I was not enough"
It's like when you both know its gonna end but you don't wanna talk about it...so you sit there and talk about anything else you can think of, but its inevitable its gonna happen...and all of a sudden everything familiar around you just changes because you are changed...and no one ever expects the end or how its gonna come....and the reasoning is probably the last reason you thought it'd ever end...And when he says "last night I dreamt that somebody had died and it was one of us" it's like...their loved died....yours didn't or vice versa and you try soo hard to do anything to get it back...anything to please them...and its just not enough...and it never will be....These are the last words I'll say to you.
Kills me.
should be
"So we sat by the LAUNDRETTE with magazines and cigarettes"