Blue_Demon1 December 9th, 2008 10:47PM  
Wow...well, lets see if I can actually be the one to make some sense....

Ive heard this song the last 15 yrs and its one of my favorites, but I had it on heavy rotation in feb of this year and think I MIGHT have figured it out......


The first line seems sarcastic, or if not caring.
and then he begins to describe his relationship with his girl, beginning to figure her out, and he thinks that she doesn't feel as strongly to him.

the pre chorus is just his emotion.

the chorus describes still if she cares for him at all like he does for her...
The mask I found is described as a character she portrays or an emotion that she is showing....
And the dogs symbolize the men that are around her, hitting on her flirting with her, that sort of deal, and then saying, will she trust him and be alone when she's not around him.

The 2nd verse starts off with, "so much depends on the weather", which weather can symbolize emotion like dark skies and black clouds are depression......

but he describes in the second line, "so is it raining in your bedroom", going back to the weather part, which rain could symbolize tears and crying. He's questioning if she's crying and upset about their relationship. Then going on to ask again, if she still cares....he seems very hurt as if he'll never see her again.

The Bridge goes on to say..
When the men she is around flirt with her and try getting with her, he'll find out later if she's been faithful and wait until tomorrow if she'll still be with him.


---all together this song is very powerful and full of emotion, I love the metaphors used in this song---

----im not sure if that's the meaning

but that's my take on the song....

anonymous February 21st, 2010 06:55PM  
I interpret this song as being in the same vein as their song "Sin", where the singer is sensing spiritual reality, but he realizes he will never act upon his realizations. The "dogs" are sensed realizations about "her" (spiritual truth), and he laments about how we always find excuses (time) to wait until "tomorrow" to act upon these truths.

The singer "feels" that he is wasting time, wearing a mask (living lies), seeing with "eyes of disarray", etc., and he laments that even if/when we realize these things, we don't care enough and simply find time to wait until "tomorrow", which is never.