Story Behind The Song

In some relationships, people feed off each other's destructive tendencies, and there is an unmatched rush from the fire that all of that energy fuels. But ultimately, either the two people part ways, or there is permanent destruction. Here, the singer

Song Description

The two people in the song did some not-so-good things together, so being alone now beats the alternative, but there lingers some regret that the two can never be together

Lyrics

MOSTLY ALONE

In the hands of someone else you?d thrive
Me, I?m destined to boredom
Well at this way we?ll stay alive
If demons die when you ignore them

With you and me in a room we take off, and too soon
There?s every ghost we can conjure
I shouldn?t resurrect this, I should forget

1st CHORUS:
Well, anyway, I opened this year
With thoughts of you coming here
And arriving with some kind of cure
Like we could stare at the sun
As it dives off the Oregon coast
Leaving us mostly alone
Alone, mostly alone

There was that night in Monterey
That we got closest to sober
So by the end of that next day
We had to admit it was over

But no one would so we did, what we could to drag on
As if there was something to salvage
The only thought that lingers, is that there was

2nd CHORUS:
Well, anyway, I opened this day
Writing down what I ought to say
But the steam on the mirror fades
Leaving only my head
Staring off like some shipwrecked ghost
Who?d rather be mostly alone
Alone, mostly alone

Our longings never coincided
So we drowned them with our pasts
But you were the surface for me
And with that and some time and I just might last
I count you among those who have, so anyway