Lyric discussion by indierocknroll4me 

I think it's talking about a relationship too. Like "counting all the different ideas drifting away", i think he's talking about trying to think of a way to solve the problem between them.

"Past and present they don't matter": this situation has never happened before so the past can't help them and they'll get over the present so "the future's sorted out".

But she just keeps going in circles (Watch her moving in elliptical patterns), trying to explain her thoughts, but she's just being really confusing (What you say is way too complicated).

And he's giving her a last chance, but she's got to make up her mind fast, but he knows she'll just do it, like she did all summer , but that's not what they need to get through it, and they know it. And they watched the problem build up (the meteor tower) and think that it will just go away.

It still doesn't make that much sense, but breaking it down line by line kind of helps......

i'm not sure what the entire song means, but when he says "like we did it over summer long", i don't think he's talking about her making up her mind..he had just said right before "lie down you know it's easy", so i would assume he means exactly what he says.

i could be totally wrong though.

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