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It's the beauty of confession
In the sound when the levees break
And all the air is wrong, wrong
Redesigning a connection
A composition painted on my face
With a smile drawn on, on
Sit back and breathe
It's nice to know you work alone
My head is reeling
It's nice to know you work alone
It's nice to know you work alone
Disembody the move action
With water marks on a pillowcase
With all the nerves turned on, on
Overriding the obsession
To take it all and be on my way
Dragging the lead along, along
Sit back and breathe
It's nice to know you work alone
My head is reeling
It's nice to know you work alone
It's nice to know you work alone
But all the grace is gone, gone
And all the tired scorn is gone
And all the fire is gone, gone
But the reveal is gone, it's gone
Sit back and breathe
It's nice to know you work alone
My head is reeling
It's nice to know you work alone
It's nice to know you work alone
Reaching the serene
It's nice to know you work alone
My head's stopped reeling
It's nice to know you work alone
It's nice to know you work alone
It's nice to know you work alone
It's nice to know you work alone
In the sound when the levees break
And all the air is wrong, wrong
Redesigning a connection
A composition painted on my face
With a smile drawn on, on
Sit back and breathe
It's nice to know you work alone
My head is reeling
It's nice to know you work alone
It's nice to know you work alone
Disembody the move action
With water marks on a pillowcase
With all the nerves turned on, on
Overriding the obsession
To take it all and be on my way
Dragging the lead along, along
Sit back and breathe
It's nice to know you work alone
My head is reeling
It's nice to know you work alone
It's nice to know you work alone
But all the grace is gone, gone
And all the tired scorn is gone
And all the fire is gone, gone
But the reveal is gone, it's gone
Sit back and breathe
It's nice to know you work alone
My head is reeling
It's nice to know you work alone
It's nice to know you work alone
Reaching the serene
It's nice to know you work alone
My head's stopped reeling
It's nice to know you work alone
It's nice to know you work alone
It's nice to know you work alone
It's nice to know you work alone
Lyrics submitted by AllChokedUp
Track duration: 04:46
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on the radio insted of of "girl look at dat body". \
Guys you are all in bed alone!
"It's nice to know you work alone" - a sarcastic consolation, in light of the crushing truth. Every cloud has a silver lining...
it's the beauty of confession
in the sound when the levees break
and all the air is wrong
wrong
[confession of not feeling the same way towards someone and the rush of emotions that]
[follows as the levees break]
redesigning the connection
[changing from lovers to friendship]
a composition painted on my face
with a smile drawn on
drawn on
[trying to act like everything is cool and "be friends"]
sit back and breathe
[so i try to relax]
it's nice to know you work alone
[it's nice to know that you don't need me - sarcasm]
my head is reeling
[can't believe that this is happening]
disembody the infection
with water marks on the pillow case
and all my nerves turned on
[love has become an infection, get rid of it by crying and being irritable]
overriding the obsession
[realizing that maybe it wasnt love but it was an obsession]
to take it all and be on my way
[take all the benefits that were got out of the relationship and move on]
dragging the lead along
[like a dog that was on a lead/leash and followed their lover whereever they wanted]
[and had unconditional love]
but all the grace is gone
...
but the reveal is gone
[the relationship has come to a close, all the previous things that were there are gone]
reaching the serene
[finally come to the realization of what happened and are at peace with it bc there is]
[a resolution]
my hands stopped bleeding
[i finally stopped working so hard to be with you and please you]
With that said - cheers to sinical1 for breaking up the monotony and sharing a unique interpretation - there certainly is something of a post-coital thing going on when Brian says "Sit back and breathe, It's nice to know you work alone, My head is reeling". And then "With water marks on a pillowcase," - could this be from sweat rather than from tears?
"With all the nerves turned on, on,
Overriding the obsession,
To take it all and be on my way,
Dragging the lead along, along."
Nerves revved up to max, as during sex, and the phrase "turned on" is a bit direct. "Dragging the lead along" conjures an image of a guy who feels that he is something of an animal (as in dog lead), used or using the other person, and then is on his way, but is happy to know that the other person doesn't need him to "reach the serene". Sounds a bit like the feeling of orgasm, and "my head's stopped reeling." sounds like release. It doesn't even need to be about a relationship - just good old fashioned sex.
Now, it may not be the one and only interpretation, but it has the virtue of having nothing to do with governments or breakups...
I think its ironic when it says "It's nice to know you work alone", cause its sounds lonely :P
And I find funny how it says "Sit back and breathe" when before he said that "all the air is wrong". How can you breathe it if its wrong?
It's about a man who is in love with a woman who doesn't want a relationship or doesn't want a relationship anymore.
"Redesigning a connection"
She still wants to be friends.
"A composition painted on my face
With a smile drawn on, on"
He's maintaining composure, but on the inside his heart is breaking.
"With water marks on a pillowcase"
He (or possibly she)'s crying him (or her)self to sleep.
"Overriding the obsession"
He's trying to tell himself it wasn't love, it was an obsession.
"To take it all and be on my way"
He's gathering all of his stuff that was at her place.
"Dragging the lead along, along"
He feels like he has to drag himself to do it.
And finally the repeating sentence:
"It's nice to know you work alone"
The fact that he repeats it through the whole song is him trying to convince himself of that it's a good thing.