"I've been repeating your speeches, but the audience just doesn't follow
Because I'm leaving out words, punctuations, and it sounds pretty hollow"
Is another reference to her control over him. The narrator is telling friends and family the things she says to him to manipulate him,
Apologising after an abusive moment for example, he is explaining why he doesn't just leave. Clearly still in love he believes that it is his inability to tell her side of the story than her who is at fault.
This seems to fit with Silberman's own interpretation of the album which is the narrator's escape from an abusive relationship as much as a story of a cancer patient.
This is a particularly powerful song on the album.
Personally I would say that
"I've been repeating your speeches, but the audience just doesn't follow Because I'm leaving out words, punctuations, and it sounds pretty hollow"
Is another reference to her control over him. The narrator is telling friends and family the things she says to him to manipulate him, Apologising after an abusive moment for example, he is explaining why he doesn't just leave. Clearly still in love he believes that it is his inability to tell her side of the story than her who is at fault.
This seems to fit with Silberman's own interpretation of the album which is the narrator's escape from an abusive relationship as much as a story of a cancer patient.
This is a particularly powerful song on the album.