This song reminds me of the book "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton. The main character, Newland Archer, is married to someone he doesn't love but married because it was what was socially right. He's in love with another woman, Countess Olenska, who left her husband but is still married to him. He has an affair of sorts with her. They admit they love each other, but then decide they can't be together, and a long time goes by, and Newland goes to her again, and they basically decide that they have to be together and yet not together. Later, she comes back again and she says she'll come to him in two days, but she leaves the country. "Everything's gone white/And everything's grey" is like how everything seems simple when he's with her, but really it's much more complicated than that. "I'm never alone/I'm alone all the time" is basically like how he's always around people, such as his wife, but he's really more alone than he's ever been, as he isn't around anyone he rereally cares about. "Don't let the days go by" is like how they stay apart and just let things sit unresolved, although they long to see each other. "Couldn't change though I wanted to/Our old friend fear and you and me" is like how he wants to break free of social restraints and be with the Countess, but he can't make himself do so because he was afraid. "I needed you more/When we wanted us less" is like when he really needed her to help him change and not be so restrained by society, but he didn't want them to get into anything that would be against social dictations. "I could not kiss just regress" is like how, at the end of the book, he went to her house in Paris, after her wife was dead, but he couldn't go to her and he walked away.
Well, you probably had to read the book to get what I'm saying about it reminding me of the song.
This song reminds me of the book "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton. The main character, Newland Archer, is married to someone he doesn't love but married because it was what was socially right. He's in love with another woman, Countess Olenska, who left her husband but is still married to him. He has an affair of sorts with her. They admit they love each other, but then decide they can't be together, and a long time goes by, and Newland goes to her again, and they basically decide that they have to be together and yet not together. Later, she comes back again and she says she'll come to him in two days, but she leaves the country. "Everything's gone white/And everything's grey" is like how everything seems simple when he's with her, but really it's much more complicated than that. "I'm never alone/I'm alone all the time" is basically like how he's always around people, such as his wife, but he's really more alone than he's ever been, as he isn't around anyone he rereally cares about. "Don't let the days go by" is like how they stay apart and just let things sit unresolved, although they long to see each other. "Couldn't change though I wanted to/Our old friend fear and you and me" is like how he wants to break free of social restraints and be with the Countess, but he can't make himself do so because he was afraid. "I needed you more/When we wanted us less" is like when he really needed her to help him change and not be so restrained by society, but he didn't want them to get into anything that would be against social dictations. "I could not kiss just regress" is like how, at the end of the book, he went to her house in Paris, after her wife was dead, but he couldn't go to her and he walked away.
Well, you probably had to read the book to get what I'm saying about it reminding me of the song.