Catching On



Ahhh, the perfect breakup song, just when you need it most. This heartfelt rocker is about continuously trying to make ends meet in a relationship with repeated failure. The lines of this song can be looked at from many different standpoints, but each view is equally as powerful and heartbreaking. "Words that melt" could be saying that the conversations the couple has to attempt to make things better just dissolve and do not get through. Then again, the line could be seen in a way that the terrible words exchanged in argument hurt each other so much that the words break each other down and do nothing but continuously cause each other pain. The chorus, preceeded by "Now I'm reaching out, it's true" seems to be a promise from one side of the relationship to once for all make things work out. However, the verses seem to me to reinforce that no matter what changes are made, the love is better "left to die."
Can't find a reason Can't find a way Guess it's not you and me Only dogs have their day Another case of words that melt It's not a question of right Nightmares in broad daylight Season crash, season burn You survive another turn And now I'm reaching out, it's true (Chorus) When you don't see me, I'm catching on to you You don't see me I'm catching on to you Took a break to get that far Like the sound from a hundred-dollar guitar Bought from an old catalogue Yesterday's dust and heartache As the pieces fall like candy when you're young And medicine when you're old There's no reason or rhyme Sidestepping around On an elevator climb (Chorus) Another jail, another burned-out inside Skeleton love left to die Take whatever lies ahead The good with the bad, and leave the rest (Chorus)