Story Behind the Song
This is the counterpart to Constructive Interference. The beat is more industrial - ie: destructive. There are many lyrical similarities. Listen to the songs back to back and you'll hear it for sure.
Lyrics
Destructive Interference
She slips in through the side door, a tattered princess, not a queen
She remains silent, don't ask where she's been or what she's seen
Everyone else's eyes and heads look to turn
She says 'Don't judge me by my cover, I'm a book about to burn'
The entrails of her dress trail behind her
Those hard glass slippers no longer bind her
Cause every time she sneezes I believe it's love
It's funny when a mitten's fitting like a glove
Saying you'll be here through any kind of weather
But if you live in fear you won't grow old together
I bet you would step back from that ledge my friend
when the Destructive Interference finally ends
Her hands are covered in rings and full of drinks as she starts up the stairs
her world's turned upside down because it seems that no one cares
and every time that she turned left and was not swept off her feet
there was another laugh behind her back another dead horse to beat
She said 'there must be something we can eat, maybe find another lover'
Everyone before her sent her ducking for cover
'Sorry,' she said, 'Maybe not tonight; I think you would do better
to look elsewhere for your polyester bride'
I'm not in a club that fights, and I don't look like I'm enlightened
but I couldn't help wondering if she'd caught sight of
the one set of eyes that adored her, not for a second scorned her
affection, nor did they envy her complexion, cause she'd say:
'I'm an ordinary girl, with an ordinary waist'
I'd love to be ordinary in that kind of way
Cause every time she sneezes I believe it's love
It's funny when a mitten's fitting like a glove
Saying you'll be here through any kind of weather
But if you live in fear you won't grow old together
I bet you would step back from that ledge my friend
when the Destructive Interference finally ends
Standing, hearing, without turning her head,
when she says 'I can't forget everything they've said'
But the din of the room falls away and she is still
saying 'I think you know what time it is, it's time to get ill'
she says 'I'm ready to go' and takes my hand
things don't always turn out as you planned
Cause it's always gonna rain in Portland, but don't forget:
if all you chase is rainbows, all you're left with are regrets
I don't tell her about the letters that I never sent her
Cause if I opened up my heart I'd be afraid that she would enter
sashaying in wearing low-rise jeans
I'd be like 'Don't wake me! I think I'm in a dream!'
Cause every time she sneezes I believe it's love
It's funny when a mitten's fitting like a glove
Saying you'll be here through any kind of weather
But if you live in fear you won't grow old together
I bet you would step back from that ledge my friend
when the Destructive Interference finally ends
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