Selo September 21st, 2007 04:03PM  
Vertical Horizon have a lot of unrequited love songs, and I think this one is one of the best they've written. The premise is simple on the surface: girl loves guy, guy doesn't love her back, girl is always hurt emotionally but doesn't give up on the guy. This is one girl who has been knocked down time and time again by this uninterested guy ("But under skinned knees and the skid marks"). She is aware that her feelings are unreciprocated. But she never gives up on this boy she loves to death - proved loud and clear in the second verse's lines "You're waiting for someone to put you together / You're waiting for someone to push you away". The chorus is a little more complicated, and describes how much she wants and loves and adores this boy, yet also how deep down she knows he might not be worth it ("But he means nothing to you and you don't know why"). The bridge that comes after the second chorus describes her trying her hardest with him and hoping for the best, and the very last chorus changes the pronouns around to show that the one singing the song has actually been the guy in this painful relationship all along.

anonymous January 13th, 2009 01:15AM  
I agree with most of the post for this song, but I always interpreted the song to include 3 people: the girl, the guy she loves, and the guy who loves her (ie the singer). I saw it as the singer wishing he was that other guy, wishing that he was everything she wanted. I haven't listened to it in awhile so I may just be deluded. :)

anonymous April 25th, 2009 02:55PM  
This is a song i listen to quite often, because I feel like I am in this situation. Girl is either with a guy that she shouldn't be with, or is chasing after guys that are not good for her. Singer is her guy friend that is always there for her, whenever she cries or needs someone. Whenever she's in a relationship or looking for someone, its seems like the singer knows that she's going about it the wrong way. or at least the tone of the song makes it seem like the girl gets into a relationship and rides out the storm. when the singer refers to this "he" that is everything for the girl, it sounds like he is telling her that he knows a guy that is right for her, but he hasn't caught her eye yet... hoping that she'll either take a hint or something. At the end of the song, when the chorus changes "he" to "I" he isn't telling the girl that he is the one for her... it sounds as though, after consoling her, or spending time with her again, about a bad relationship, she leaves and he is disheartened that she did not realize that he was the guy for her. but he still isn't going to take a stand and tell her that he's the one for her. So overall, guy in the song is a good guy... looks out for her, and wants the best for her... he feels like he can be the best for her, but he would rather have her decide that, because he just cares for her happiness, in case she doesn't see him that way. my 2 cents

paldebayan April 29th, 2009 10:30AM  
I don't refute any of the above interpretations....but when I hear this song...i feel its all about self-realization....first you realize that there is somebody who is perfect....but at the end you actually realize that I am the one who is perfect.....try to listen with this point of view.....and tell me...

anonymous May 10th, 2009 11:39PM  
i think the girl is with the guy and can't find anything wrong with him but still doesn't believe she is in love. but she doesn't know why. if he is the perfect guy, why can't she love him? how come he means nothing? the whole time the singer is talking about himself because he's talking o his significant other and confesses that he tries to be the best and he loves her but can tell she appreciates him but doesn't love him, and he doesn't understand why.

anonymous August 23rd, 2009 11:04PM  
when i was a little girl, my dad would sing along to this song and soon enough i would be singing along to it too... anyways i always thought that it involved 3 people. the guy the girl and the guy that the girl loves but for some reason she doesn't feel like it's everything she thought it would be, like she felt empty loving him. i always thought that it was like the girl was perfect. beautiful, smart, nice... you get the drift. and that the guy (the singer) had always secretly pined for her. but he never had the nerve to tell her. she was with the guy she loved. he was popular, gorgeous, smart, nice... ya know the type of guy alll the girls want? anyways i always thought that like it says in the song "He's everything you want, he's everything you need, he's everything inside of you that you wish you could be, he says all the right things at exactly the right time." but she still couldn't help feeling like it wasn't whole, "but he means nothing to you and you don't know why" and then the singer is trying to help her through it. then in the end the 'he' changes to 'I'. i always thought that in the end she broke up with the other guy and got neither. that she never realized that the singer was the perfect guy for her. and in the end he thought that he meant nothing to her... and he didn't know why.

anonymous September 19th, 2009 04:08AM  
I believe that the song is about a girl who remembers a relationship she has had with a guy. ("Somewhere there's speaking, It's already coming in, Oh and it's rising at the back of your mind

anonymous October 13th, 2009 11:30PM  
I see a lot of people saying it`s about a girl who likes a guy, but by listening to the chorus it seems to be the opposite . He's everything you want He's everything you need He's everything inside of you That you wish you could be He says all the right things At exactly the right time But he means nothing to you And you don't know why It says He means nothing to you, you being a girl . It seems like this girl is friends with a boy or meets him or even dated him, he was exactly what she wanted but, she just didn`t like him .