The meaning of this song is similar to that of Some Nights which is basically reflecting his career in the music industry. When he says "we are not shining stars" he is reflecting at a period after his first band The Format where he failed to rise to stardom. However, he gets up and carries on, never giving up. He allows the experiences of the past to be the sound of the future. He meets up with his band and they talk about how everybody dies but he at least wants to reach fame and make name for himself before that comes, and therefore "cheat it all". When he says "to make up for the times i've been cheated on" he refers to the times past with The Format and how even though that experience 'left him for dead' he has now gotten over it and the past is not a ghost that haunts him anymore. The other verses seem to be him talking to a girl (girlfriend?) whom seems to have been with him before their fame when she tells him they are not stars (yet) and at the end Nate tells her that now they truly are stars and are "invincible". Pretty obvious that they get it going at the end when she holds the phone (as in press hold to whoever she is talking to) and she lays her clothes on the ground. Now that they have made it "no one is ever gonna stop [them] now".
Well I woke up to the sound of silence the cars (He woke up early in the morning - before the sun comes out)
Were cutting like knives in a fist fight (the only noise is that of cars in the background disrupting the night)
And I found you with a bottle of wine (he finds the girl drinking her sorrows away- she cannot sleep)
Your head in the curtains and heart like the fourth of July (She is feeling like comitting suicide)
This is obvious because the whole verse is a reference to the song Faith in Fast Cars by his previous band The Format.
The meaning of this song is similar to that of Some Nights which is basically reflecting his career in the music industry. When he says "we are not shining stars" he is reflecting at a period after his first band The Format where he failed to rise to stardom. However, he gets up and carries on, never giving up. He allows the experiences of the past to be the sound of the future. He meets up with his band and they talk about how everybody dies but he at least wants to reach fame and make name for himself before that comes, and therefore "cheat it all". When he says "to make up for the times i've been cheated on" he refers to the times past with The Format and how even though that experience 'left him for dead' he has now gotten over it and the past is not a ghost that haunts him anymore. The other verses seem to be him talking to a girl (girlfriend?) whom seems to have been with him before their fame when she tells him they are not stars (yet) and at the end Nate tells her that now they truly are stars and are "invincible". Pretty obvious that they get it going at the end when she holds the phone (as in press hold to whoever she is talking to) and she lays her clothes on the ground. Now that they have made it "no one is ever gonna stop [them] now".
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Well I woke up to the sound of silence the cars (He woke up early in the morning - before the sun comes out) Were cutting like knives in a fist fight (the only noise is that of cars in the background disrupting the night) And I found you with a bottle of wine (he finds the girl drinking her sorrows away- she cannot sleep) Your head in the curtains and heart like the fourth of July (She is feeling like comitting suicide) This is obvious because the whole verse is a reference to the song Faith in Fast Cars by his previous band The Format.