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You'll discover that casual friends kept
Notes in their pockets to remember your name.
And all these places we went to see sights
Just gave them excuses to get to the game.
[Chorus]
There's a look in the faces tonight that's untrustable
As the hope that you'll never return in a while.
But you're always on time, so
Sleeping soundly; the back of the car felt more like a home
Than I would have ever have thought.
And through the evening the engine kept on
Until we hit Chicago and decided to stop.
[Chorus: x2]
Notes in their pockets to remember your name.
And all these places we went to see sights
Just gave them excuses to get to the game.
[Chorus]
There's a look in the faces tonight that's untrustable
As the hope that you'll never return in a while.
But you're always on time, so
Sleeping soundly; the back of the car felt more like a home
Than I would have ever have thought.
And through the evening the engine kept on
Until we hit Chicago and decided to stop.
[Chorus: x2]
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However you wanna interpret it, this song always stuck out to me on the record. It's just so slow and dark. I definitely related with the feelings expressed here to. I ain't scurred but I thought this song was a stick-out on the record yadig it was cool though.
"Sleeping soundly, the back of the car felt more like a home
Than I would have ever have thought
And through the evening the engine kept on"
well my take on that is that he is so messed up by this girl through the album so far and the breakdown was the employment pages and the aftershock was for what reason... "So slick with your sarcastic slew with phrases like i thought you knew" pretty self explanatory.
sorry getting side tracked SO my take on that verse is that he is trying to kill him self it is that bad... he had a hose through from the exhaust to the back seat where he went to sleep in hope of not waking up. anyway thats what i got from it maybe a little extreme but yeah.
"Sleeping soundly, the back of the car felt more like a home
Than I would have ever have thought
And through the evening the engine kept on"
well my take on that is that he is so messed up by this girl through the album so far and the breakdown was the employment pages and the aftershock was for what reason... "So slick with your sarcastic slew with phrases like i thought you knew" pretty self explanatory.
sorry getting side tracked SO
I'd personally say that Ben is trying hard with a girl's group of friends, but that they do not care for each other, and will not become friends, but Ben doesn't feel like he has anyone left.
The lines in the chorus:
There's a look in the faces tonight that's untrustable
As the hope that you'll never return in a while
But you're always on time, so . . .
Seem to me to be the sense of the inability of Ben to leave the scene, regardless of wanting to, because the girl he has fallen for is there, and so the vicious cycle continues.
Great song, though...
i took it as meaning, like his friends are only his friends because they can get some benefit through them. i'm thinking they want to get ahead in the music business, and they know he can get them connections. ("all those places we went to see sights just gave them excuses to get into the game")
There's a look in the faces tonight that's untrustable
As the hope that you'll never return in a while
But you're always on time, so . . .
his friends look untrustable because they're so fake. he doesn't even trust them enough to know if they'll ever speak to him again. frankly, he doesn't want to continue his friendship with them anyway, so he's bummed that they're always on time and keep showing up.
the back of the car feels like home to him because no where else feels like home. he can be alone, because at home, those people always bug him.
i don't know, that's just how i took it. beautiful song. i love the bass.
Also, the untrustable faces and how they traveled to Chicago, and the "hope that you wouldn't return in a while.."
I don't fucking know, I think I've been doing too many drugs.