Track 2 tells the story of like, the 'hope' before a relationship, where you want it to occur:
Spent the morning cleaning my room
In the hope you'd ask to see it soon
and, humorously:
I don't mean to put the pressure on
But you're gonna like my dad
I know you'll love my mum and
I don't mean to put the pressure on
I got a few names for a daughter
Can't think of one for a son
Track 4 tells of the early relationship - insecurity, fear, love happening etc:
Last night I said, "I love you" without a hint of fear
Last night I said, "I love you" nothing exploded, no one disappeared
and
And all I think I'd need to cast off insecurities
Is for you to write something for me
Like I write for you incessantly
But I don't live in your mind the way that you do in mine
I think
Track 5, the relationship gets sort of complicated:
I was tempted by your company
And you've already noticed me
I'm sorry for what I say when I don't know what I'm saying
And you don't have to play this cat and mouse game I am playing
and
And I hope you're happy, I hope you've slept
I'll try not write another record about the pain in my chest
I'm just so glad I could be someone that you wanted
and
And I'm absolutely infinitely more scared of you than you are of me
And I've always been the one who cares too much
and
And there's nothing I can really do
So I sit in the band room, start fights to get attention from you
There is nothing I am qualified or smart enough to do
Sit in the band room and start fights to get attention from you
Track 6, we see the type of dysfunction that's full of love but also resentment:
When you start crying in the middle of a fight
I never wanna see you sad
But that does not mean that you are right
And I wake and I pace around the bed
Doesn't mean I can't be near you
But being alive makes me stressed
You fall asleep as I'm patting your head
and
If you need me I'll come running
Would have thought that I'd proved that
Can divide our despair, could've conquered our sad
By
Track 7, I think they've broken up but I could be reaching here, because the rest of the song isn't particularly direct:
Finally not waking up dreaming of your ghost
and
I am not smarter than many
But I do think that I'm smarter than you
Dappled sunlight that the warm air reciprocates
You look up long enough to notice
But not long enough to appreciate that
Track 8:It was so cold in the top room
But I didn't wanna risk waking you
and
I am someone in your passenger seat
I'm your punching bag
I will let you kick the shit outta me
And I'll hold your hand
I'll be whatever you tell me to be
And I'll understand
and
If I can't see a future for you without evil
A future for me without you will, only make it better
So I start hoping, that I stop smoking
Because the ducks are in a row and
This is my best chance to get my shit together
Track 9 is just plain despair. In my interpretation, slightly brought on by the failing relationship:
Something about the summer I didn't cope with well
and
There's something in the tone of my voice
That makes you question everything I say
And I will never learn to just shut my mouth
And bury things our parents' way
And you said that I should quit what I fear
And I know I just wanted it to be my idea
And you said that I do not exist
And I know at least now we agree on it
And I'll keep telling myself
That I'm not just here for everyone else
Make plans for birthdays that I don't care if I celebrate
And I'm sorry that I can't be what everybody wants from me
I do not feel that I am loved
But I do not reach out enough
But I'm reaching up
Track 10- post-relationship struggles:
Young love is just practice for a far more ancient
And hopefully successful bond
Between someone who is scared
And someone that they've incorrectly assumed to be strong
and
I'm lonely and angry and desperate
I smashed up my furniture broke my finger doing it
I'm half crying, half laughing and half pissed
and
Go forth and suffer for your art
If it's all you look for you will always find the dark
You're the worst thing that ever happened to me
Track 11 - a genuinely amazing song - I think, he's finding some solace looking back:
I was so damn clever in my own little world
Gone and made the perfect gesture for the perfect girl
But nothing ever really works out like that
and
And we were young once
So was everyone
I guess something about it felt important
And we were happy once
So was everyone
I guess I never realised it was so important
and
What if I was right for someone else?
And what if I never learn how to live with myself?
And what if when I leave, you find someone that completes you?
Will that change anything or will I turn back into a pattern I'm so used to?
Track 12 is a story about the first tour he went on after the break up, where he bumped into another girl from Australia and hung out with her. So sort of, caps it off.