*I take this song as a girl who is trapped in love with a lover she no longer cares for, and she has met someone new who she is slowly becoming addicted to. (This is just how I see the song; not what is necessarily right)
VERSE 1;
Sometimes I go whole days; Listening, bored, half asleep
I won’t say anything that’s worth a thing to me
*(Obviously means that most times she is “out of it”, or detached emotionally from herself)
One day, suddenly time took a turn that once felt so brief
I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly
*(one day she met someone for a brief moment that made the ‘ghosts’ of her past lovers fade- or made her forget about them) ***OR; if the lyrics are; "I blink to see, but light goes fading quickly." as ginasf says; then this could mean that she was blinded by the beauty of this person when first seeing them.
CHORUS;
What begins as an unguarded train of thought slowly can become an addiction
To the slumber of disconnection
*(She has a feeling about that new person and soon these thoughts come on so regularly that it’s like she is addicted to them. “To the slumber of disconnection” can perhaps mean, having these feelings until the moment the previous lovers disconnect, or break up.)
And resonates a memory that no longer has a shape, but keeps you numb
*(These new feelings bring on memories of her past lover, that no longer have meaning and rather than feeling love or happiness, she’s numb)
Through the hours still gone’s another day.
*(wasted so many days with these feelings)
VERSE 2;
Be aware my darling, these things I say I mean
Are just traces of something I want to feel again,
*(to her old lover; she is addicted to this new man and she means it- these feelings are traces of how she used to feel about her old lover, and what she wants to feel again.)
I see our time expand in the air almost forcibly
Spreading thinner ‘til it dissolves completely.
*(She sees their time as lovers slowly coming to an end and soon their love will dissolve like the air or fog she describes as expanding and spreading thinner)
**this is how I see it anyway... but again; personal experiences can make us interpret it all differently
*I take this song as a girl who is trapped in love with a lover she no longer cares for, and she has met someone new who she is slowly becoming addicted to. (This is just how I see the song; not what is necessarily right)
VERSE 1; Sometimes I go whole days; Listening, bored, half asleep I won’t say anything that’s worth a thing to me *(Obviously means that most times she is “out of it”, or detached emotionally from herself)
One day, suddenly time took a turn that once felt so brief I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly *(one day she met someone for a brief moment that made the ‘ghosts’ of her past lovers fade- or made her forget about them) ***OR; if the lyrics are; "I blink to see, but light goes fading quickly." as ginasf says; then this could mean that she was blinded by the beauty of this person when first seeing them.
CHORUS; What begins as an unguarded train of thought slowly can become an addiction To the slumber of disconnection *(She has a feeling about that new person and soon these thoughts come on so regularly that it’s like she is addicted to them. “To the slumber of disconnection” can perhaps mean, having these feelings until the moment the previous lovers disconnect, or break up.)
And resonates a memory that no longer has a shape, but keeps you numb *(These new feelings bring on memories of her past lover, that no longer have meaning and rather than feeling love or happiness, she’s numb)
Through the hours still gone’s another day. *(wasted so many days with these feelings)
VERSE 2; Be aware my darling, these things I say I mean Are just traces of something I want to feel again, *(to her old lover; she is addicted to this new man and she means it- these feelings are traces of how she used to feel about her old lover, and what she wants to feel again.)
I see our time expand in the air almost forcibly
Spreading thinner ‘til it dissolves completely. *(She sees their time as lovers slowly coming to an end and soon their love will dissolve like the air or fog she describes as expanding and spreading thinner)
**this is how I see it anyway... but again; personal experiences can make us interpret it all differently