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When we laugh indoors, the blissful tones bounce off the walls and fall to the ground.
Peel the hardwood back to let them loose from decades trapped and listen so still.
This city is my home, construction noise all day long and gutter punks are bumming change.
So I breed thicker skin and let me lustrous coat fill in and I'll never admit that
I loved you Guinevere.
I've always fallen fast with too much trust in the promise that
"no one's ever been here, so you can quell those wet fears."
I want purity, I must have it here right now.
But don't you get me started now.
December's chill comes late, the days get darker and we wait for this direness to pass.
There are piles on the floor of artifacts from dresser drawers, and I'll help you pack.
Peel the hardwood back to let them loose from decades trapped and listen so still.
This city is my home, construction noise all day long and gutter punks are bumming change.
So I breed thicker skin and let me lustrous coat fill in and I'll never admit that
I loved you Guinevere.
I've always fallen fast with too much trust in the promise that
"no one's ever been here, so you can quell those wet fears."
I want purity, I must have it here right now.
But don't you get me started now.
December's chill comes late, the days get darker and we wait for this direness to pass.
There are piles on the floor of artifacts from dresser drawers, and I'll help you pack.
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When we laugh indoors
The blissful tones bounce off the walls
And fall to the ground.
Peel the hardwood back
To let them loose from decades trapped
And listen so still
Ben obviously loved this girl and had fun with her.
The first verse makes me think of him and this girl laying around in bed giggling and just loving each other.
This city is my home
Construction noise all day long
And gutter punks bumming change
When he starts talking about the city, I think it refers to their love, or love making. Yeah, he was at home with her and felt comfortable. But it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. It was a place full of discomfort and "gutter punks", which to me makes me think of other guys having sex with her; begging for it.
So I breed thicker skin
And let my lustrous coat fill in
"Breed"" helps us see the sexual meaning. He keeps making love to her because he loved her. It also could mean that he's decided that, yeah this girl has lied to me about being a virgin. I can't take the fact that she sleeps with other guys so he decides to leave.
And here is where we see the whole story come together.
I've always fallen fast with too much trust in the promise that
"No one's ever been here, so you can quell those wet fears"
To me, 'No one's ever been here' means she's claiming she's never had sex with anyone before Ben.
'So you can quell those wet fears' means that maybe he is very insecure about the situation. Maybe he has cried about it? Or, if we go back to the sexual connotation....wet....Ahem. Anyway.
I want purity, I must have it here right now
But don't you get me started now
Don't you get me
'I want purity' means he wanted her to be a virgin. He wanted someone innocent. He's pissed off. And 'Don't you get me started now' probably means something like I'm so pissed off, but we've had this talk so many times before that I don't even want to get into it.
'Don't you get me.' I see this as a question. Don't you understand why I am so angry?
December's chill comes late
The days get darker and we wait
December means the time of death. Their love has died. They have fought so much and she has lied about being innocent. He loved her, but she was not what she claimed to be.
Oh Ben...such heartache... =/
Such an awesome song, but of course, heart wrenching.
First of all, I really don't think there's a right or wrong meaning to any song, especially one of Ben's songs. I honestly think they all have a certain direction but the end meaning belongs only to the end listener. I may view this song completely different from anyone else here, simply because of different life experiences. Anyhow, here's how I interpret "We Laugh Indoors":
I think this song is more a way of Ben (or the listener) to tell Guenivere (or the listeners girl/guy) that they are over them, but still remember the love and life they had. From laughing and loving... to eventually splitting and moving on.
The word "loved", in this song, is very powerful. It says to me that he loved her and STILL loves her, but it's now time to move on. He wouldn't be telling her that he loved her unless he, in some way, still loved her. And I don't really think it's a mean spirited "I loved you", like rubbing it in her face that he no longer is in love with her. I think it's a very healthy and forward thinking way of saying it to her. As in "What we had was great, I'll always wish it lasted and will wonder what we would have been, but it's over. I'll always love you, but it's time to move on, Guenivere."
One of the more emotionally powerful songs from DCFC, especially concerning relationships.
Haha, i learned that in english today, im pretty sure death cab wrote the song about that general thangg
"I want purity, I must have it here right now
But don't you get me started now"
if we take purity as meaning virginity, or at least naivety, he could be saying that he craves a girl who has that purity, but at the same time he is telling her not to tempt him, because he knows that by being with her he would ruin that purity. Does that make sense?
Other than that I love this song so much, the repetition and the hypnotic style...the sparseness of the guitar notes...then the build-up to the heavier part and then it loops right back around, like a metaphor for releasing anger but ultimately it changes nothing. This song evokes a real feeling of powerlessness for me. Amazing.
i'd never needed to look up the lyrics to this, just did it today for no reason. i never knew he said "i'll never admit that i loved you gweniviere." holy shit. wow. amped up the song's meaning for me tenfold.