What's your idea of a really fun afternoon, daytime kinda date?

Oh, I'd just like to, you know,
spend some time with you, I think that's the main thing.
You seem like kind of a hard egg but I think I could crack you. Cracker? Cracker? Cracker?

God, you're...I can't wait to get back to you! Bachelor #1, what's your favourite colour and why?

I’m taking a ride off to one side
It is a personal thing.
Where?
When I can’t stand up in this cage I’m not regretting.
I don’t need a better thing
I’d settle for less
It’s another thing for me
I just have to wander through this world alone.

Stop before you fall
Into the hole that I have dug here
Rest even as you
Are starting to feel the way I used to
I don’t need a better thing
Just to sound confused
Don’t talk about everyone
I am not amused by you.

Cos I’m gonna lose ya
Yes I’m gonna lose ya
If I’m gonna lose ya

Cos I’m gonna lose ya
Yes I’m gonna lose ya
If I’m gonna lose ya
I’ll lose you now for good.

Hi, bachelor #1, I'm a really fun-loving person.
If you were a Mac lipstick colour, what would you be?

I would be brown like the earth.
A good solid earth tone, but you shouldn't wear so much make-up, you harpy.

You're funny! You use big words.



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    General Comment:makes me think of the phrase watching a train wreck in slow motion

    i wasnt ready for college when i graduated high school. some things happened and i wasn't in a healthy state of mind when i left home for school, hundreds of miles away from my family and friends. suicidal thought and depression were not as unusual as i would have preferred. and when you have so many expectations on you its like all you can do is hold on. after four long years i knew that all i was doing was just digging my hole deeper and deeper. it was scary when i told my family and friends back home that i wouldn't be graduating, and yes there were some sighs and looks of disappointment, but at that point i couldn't care less. it might be selfish but for the first time in years i was free. i lost friends from it but now i realize that those people were never friends to begin with if your friendship hinged entirely on expectancies instead of anything meaningful. i feel so much better now and its like instead of failure or defeat i've simply closed an ugly chapter in my life. i like where i'm at now. i have my family and friends and an okay 40hr a week job but that doesn't matter. i'm happy and i feel better. when i wake up there isn't this pressure on my shoulders and this hollowing feeling in my gut. i wake up and i'm smiling. when i'm ready i will go back because an education is important. until then i'll settle for less =}

    good song
    Flag Aeetoson October 14, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:My boyfriend of nearly a year broke up with me a couple weeks ago, because his mom started acting suicidal and was blaming it on him. He said it made him realize that his life is crap, and it that it made him change the way he feels about everything. We've had those false "breakups" after petty little fights, but this time I know I've lost him for good. Every line of this song hits so close to home and I cannot listen to it without crying like a little baby. So beautiful.
    Flag abillionbibleson May 29, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:katrahmat - i completely agree with you. i didn't notice it at first but i definitely see what you're saying. especially because that's how i feel right now too haha.

    gettinghitonattheban - that's the meaning i got out of the song when i saw it on house too.
    Flag balletmonsteron May 02, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:i think this song is about how he knows he's spiraling downward and he knows he's gonna hit rock bottom. he's trying to hold on to everything and everyone, to not let it show. but he knows that if he keeps pretending that he'll bring down his loved ones with him. and even though he's terribly sad and feels completely alone, he's not selfish- he would never ever want to bring down anyone else with him. "stop before you fall into the hole that i have dug here.'
    i think he's disappointed in the way his life has turned out and what he's become. i think that he thought his life would've been very different. maybe he's turned into someone very shallow and very materialistic and he's realizing that that is no way to live. 'dont talk about everyone, i am not amused by you.'
    in a weird way, it almost sounds like he's relieved when he's says 'i'm gonna lose you, yeah i'm gonna lose you. if i'm gonna lose you, i'll lose you now for good.'. i think he's finally learned that he has to start over. that he has to let go of the life he's created for himself and start a new one.
    its a very sad, powerful song but i think that there's much more to it then he's getting out a relationship or a break up.
    Flag ana11on April 23, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This is the only song they used in this week's episode of HOUSE on Fox TV.

    Simple Explanation
    Episode 520 : 2009-04-06

    It played as everyone tried to come to terms with their associate's suicide.

    In that context - it seemed as though Kutner just had to leave them - to go away on his own.
    He wasn't looking for something better - he just needed to go - and in his leaving, he was saying..
    "I'm gonna lose you.... now for good...."
    Flag canyayasison April 10, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:It's about a deeply depressed person telling his loved ones that it's not there fault before he commits suicide and saying a final goodbye, before everyone he loves leaves him.
    Flag Gettinghitonatthebanon April 07, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:It would be nice if you cleaned the lyrics up before you posted them.

    Love the song. So sad
    Flag Elviaon April 07, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:yea i agree with all of you i think its just he knows a relationship is coming to an end. And maybe its because he has some personal problems *maybe depression* that the girl just wouldn't understand i don't think he can even talk to her about it. He just dosen't want to bring her down with him and he needs to break it off he knows she's going to be mad and he just wants to get it over with and be alone great effing song
    Flag fakelineson January 28, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Wow...this song reaches right into my chest and not tugs, but YANKS at my heartstrings. I can relate so well to these lyrics.
    Flag SageSoulon September 06, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:What really caught me about this song was these two lines:

    "I don't need a better thing, I'd settle for less."

    and

    "I don't need a better thing, just to sound confused."

    I thought, that usually happens when you fall in love. The person isn't what you hope/wish he'd be at all. He just becomes necessary for you to love however that person really is.

    This song, yeah, most probably about a breakup. But the structures of how a relationship is, is there.

    The way Pete Yorn sings it, it's as if he still loves her, but has to accept her decision. He would be happy with the relationship otherwise. He doesn't want anything 'better' (else) just the way it was.
    Flag katrahmaton April 28, 2007   Link

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