Lyric Analysis

This song is about a man who has had trouble in his past relationship, and now feels he can’t fall in love again in case he gets hurt like before.

Before she even falls asleep,
I got one foot out the door, one foot out the door,
I think she said her name but I was wasted,
I don't care anymore, one foot out the door.

Night after night, day after day,
Jack and coke smokin' on the fire escape,
Is it too soon or is it too late

Am I crazy to think that I could be in love when it all ends up, it all ends up wasted,
I'd give you my heart, but I'd just fuck it up, and we'd end up, we'd end up wasted,
La la la la la la la [x3]

Trying to numb the pain away,
I know how to leave but not how to stay,
I wonder if I will ever find someone to fill me up inside,
Someone to kiss my fears away,
If I believed in God I'd pray, to God I'd pray

Am I crazy to think that I could be in love when it all ends up, it all ends up wasted,
I'd give you my heart, but I'd just fuck it up, and we'd end up, we'd end up wasted,
La la la la la la la [x3]

Night after night, day after day,
Jack and coke smokin' on the fire escape,
Is it too soon or is it too late

Am I crazy to think that I could be in love when it all ends up, it all ends up wasted,
I'd give you my heart, but I'd just fuck it up, and we'd end up, we'd end up wasted,
I say we'd end up wasted, ooooh,

La la la la la la la [x3]

We'd end up wasted.

Verse 1 suggests he has just had a one night stand as he doesn’t want to find a serious relationship. The first two lines show he has let her house ‘before she even falls asleep’, suggesting he is leaving her before he gets any feeling for her. The word ‘wasted’ in this verse is used to show he is drunk and can’t even remember what the girls name is. He says he doesn’t care anymore, suggesting he doesn’t care about love or care about the girl he has just been with.

The bridge suggests he has been behaving in this way for a while, as the first line says ‘night after night, day after day’. This reinforces that he is struggling to cope with his heartache. The second line suggests he has been drinking and smoking in order to cope with this problem. The final line in the bridge, ‘is it too soon, or is it too late?’ suggests he may be thinking if it’s too soon to have moved on from his past troubled relationship or is it too late to get his ex girl back.

The chorus reinforces the idea that he believes he couldn’t fall in love because it all ends up ‘wasted’. ‘Wasted’ in this sense is used to show how his love has been wasted, and he has put all his love into one person for it all to be ruined in the end. ‘I’d give you my heart but I’d just fuck it up’ shows he doesn’t trust himself to fall in love again in case it all goes wrong.

This verse adds to the point that he is using alcohol to cope, as he says ‘trying to numb the pain away’. The second line suggests that he finds it easier not being in a relationship, as he knows ‘how to leave’ but not ‘how to stay’, suggesting he finds it difficult to stay in a relationship. The third line suggests he wants to find ‘the one’ but doubts he will. He says he wants to find someone who will ‘kiss his fears away’, meaning someone who he won’t be scared of losing, and he won’t have a fear of their love becoming ‘wasted’. The final line shows he is so desperate to find this dream person to make him feel better that he’d pray to God if he believed in him.

The final ‘We’d end up wasted’ shows he still has too many doubts even though he has thought it through, so this line shows he still doesn’t see a point in getting into a relationship because they’d ‘end up wasted’.