"You think you know a story, but you only know how it ends. To get to the heart of the story, you have to go back to the beginning." --Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII (from The Tudors)
It's just kind of about being away from home for a long time, being busy, then coming home, sitting down, having everything come to a halt and wondering what to do next. When you become really occupied, there are so many things that happen to you, so many great moments, nights out with your friends, that just slip through the cracks, that you don't remember. And then you'll run into that person, and it'll hit you all at once, the memory of that happy time which was lost in the filing cabinet of your brain. And that feeling you get when you remember, it is so great. ~Pete Yorn (about his song Come Back Home)
It's like the early stages of a relationship, how fragile it can be. How everything is good in the beginning, but it all goes to shit. And again, it's about trying to get back to that state, before things turn bad. To a simple time, when there were not expectations. It was just all new and exciting. You can be with someone, have a great time, fall asleep together, and when you wake up the next morning, you're just not into it. Then you stop returning phone calls, and it's over. -Pete Yorn (about his song Crystal Village...).