anonymous January 25th, 2007 09:46PM  
In this song he finds pictures or items that remind him of his love that left him " before the gleam of your taillights fading east to find... yourself a better life." He is constantly reminded of his lost love.... " idea drilled into my head.. His memories are boxed up into a glove box" and there's not blame on how our love did slowly fad.. and now that its gone its like it wasn't there at all." it reminds him and then he is sad...

anonymous February 21st, 2007 11:28PM  
A man is but pulled over by a policeman, at which that time he flips open the glove compartment of his car in search of "some legal documents". It is at this point that he finds pictures from a previous relationship. One that will never return. He doesn't blame her or him for that lack of love in their relationship, he just regrets it. All these memories are unfolded through stream of consciousness as he falls upon pictures.
I love the use of imagery in their songs. Very picture-ative.
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anonymous October 15th, 2007 10:37PM  
Actually I find nothign wronf with the interpretation aboce the interpretation above... The initiation of a writing can be just as metaphorical as the literary work itself. The legal mishap can be a metaphor for any kind of screw up- the song could be about how he's messed up in his current relationship and now can't get an ex out of his head as he always does the same thing- or the song could be about how he has been reflecting on errors he has made in the past which lead him to reflect on his past relationships.

I would've agreed with you, except that the song is titled "Title and Registration" Which goes to say that somehow the mataphor is important. Herdly ever do skilled writers or artists just fill up space within their material.

anonymous June 26th, 2008 02:24AM  
First of all it has nothing to do with a cop or getting pulled over because the cop asks for license and registration not "title and registration". My interpretation of this song is that he's selling his car, meaning he's passing on the title and registration to someone one and meanwhile, the car has so many memories of him and his ex that its hard to let go. The same way he let his ex go, now he's letting the memories go by selling the car.

anonymous June 22nd, 2009 05:13AM  
Glove compartment is the girl's vagina, isn't accurately named meaning more than one person's usage of it. And of course, you are the last one to know out of everybody else. Thus You try and take control and propose an orderly change. Behind its door, once again a metaphor for vagina, as it is being used in polyamory, loses its warmth for your fingers. Gross as it is, souveniers from better times litterally means semen from other men on his fingers... You reveal such an act from your partner and she leaves to find someone better. Searching for some legal documents means hope for monogomy, as it is legal - the usual way it should be. the rain beating down on the hood is just a simple metaphor for sadness. The pictures found are just painful memories and feeling went through in realisation which you tried to forget. And now in reminding yourself, the feeling is once again stuck in your head and heart, because to you it was so important to keep hold of your partner and to stay the way it was because it was so fulfulling. And now there is nothing left of what you thought was so beautiful, dissapointed with yourself and your partner, regretting what has happened what has ended.

12martin March 11th, 2010 06:05PM  
The person is selling their car because it's too depressing, and the narrator cannot handle the memories bound with it. It only brings him pain, not comfort. He is forced to reconcile the failed love the vehicle, and for his own health stability must get rid of it "...'cause it's too important to stay the way it's been..." It's not anyone's fault, but they can't shake the "..disappointment and regret.."