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Slip and stumble at my first offenses
It's not treason, it's no lie
You talk in paragraphs
I write my sentence
It's not treason, it's no lie
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x2]
Crush and crumble under your defenses
It's not treason, it's no lie
You frame the photograph
I sit on fences
Change of season, love can die
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x4]
If we tear out the tumor
It's later, never sooner
If we tear out the tumor
It's later, never sooner
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x2]
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
Wake up x3
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x2]
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up [Repeat: x4]
Wake up
It's not treason, it's no lie
You talk in paragraphs
I write my sentence
It's not treason, it's no lie
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x2]
Crush and crumble under your defenses
It's not treason, it's no lie
You frame the photograph
I sit on fences
Change of season, love can die
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x4]
If we tear out the tumor
It's later, never sooner
If we tear out the tumor
It's later, never sooner
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x2]
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
Wake up x3
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x2]
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up [Repeat: x4]
Wake up
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I think the "you bet it keep it in check or you'll end up a wreck and you'll never wake up" is a warning to his partner that if they don't change they'll never find what they're looking for, but he's accepted that whatever, it won't be with him.
Beautiful song.
In a way I think there's some reference to drug use here too and how that's making him lose reality of the dying relationship, as many drugs cause coma/make you sleep better when used in certain quantities.
In a way I think there's some reference to drug use here too and how that's making him lose reality of the dying relationship, as many drugs cause coma/make you sleep better when used in certain quantities.
"You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up"
Just beautiful...it's amazing, how Placebo took a sleep disorder, and made it seem so heavenly!
"you talk in paragraphs, i write my sentence"--- that line illustrates that he's the one with no important things to say and thus the weaker one; the one who's tired of the seriousness and wants to dream with her.
then Bribri's voice rises as he sings, "you better keep it in check or you'll end up a wreck and you'll never wake up", which sounds like the stronger spouse telling the narcoleptic 'i told you so'.
'Place for us to dream' - the idea of a paradise
'Slip and stumble at my first offenses' - descent in savargery etc.
I dunno