| Time and Time Again From "August and Everything After" I wanted so badly Somebody other than me Staring back at me But you were gone...gone...gone I wanted to see you Walking backwards And get the sensation Of you coming home I wanted to see you Walking away from me Without the sensation You're leaving me alone CHORUS Time and time again Time and time again Time and time again I can't please myself I wanted the ocean To cover over me I wanna sink slowly Without getting wet Maybe someday I won't be so lonely And I'll walk on water Every chance I get CHORUS So when are you coming home, sweet angel? You're leaving me alone? Alone, All alone? Well if I'm drowning, darling, You'll come down this way on your own I wish I was traveling On a freeway Beneath this graveyard Western sky I'm gonna set fire To this city And out into the desert Yeah, we're gonna ride CHORUS I can't please myself And I can't please nobody else and Time again Time and time again Time and time and time and time and Time again I can't please myself No, no, no, no |
| This is another song that cuts to the core of my life so far. The feeling of being left- and also how AD conveys it in this song- is something we all can identify with. But I connect with this song because like the singer, I have clung and hung on way to long. And that one relationship has tarnished every relationship I have tried to have until now. It took one episode of anger to get me over the hump and leave it in the past. This song is about a man trying to move on, but everything fails. He can't please himself because he won't let himself be happy. Almost as if that if he found true happiness apart from this one woman, it would be a scrilege to love. So he pushes everyone away because they can't compete with a memory. And maybe deep down he knows it. But he holds on this hope- this groundless, empty hope- that maybe things will work out and she'll come back. But until then, he's stuck in this circle and there's no way out. |