Halsey Song Meanings

Closer (The Chainsmokers)

Hey, I was doing just fine before I met you. I drink too much and that's an issue, but I'm okay

ANALYSIS: Before meeting one another, he was okay and had no edge in his life, nor did he have the excitement that came along with his significant other. He didn't deal with the heartbreak and he was alright. He drinks too much, and he considers it an issue, that might cause trouble to his significant other, but he's okay and he believes they can dodge past that obstacle.

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Hey, tell your friends it was nice to meet them, but I hope I never see them again

ANALYSIS: He met her friends and has a few doubts about them. He questions her choice in friends, or he was hoping they wouldn't have to spend time with anyone, just so he could be alone with her.

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I know it breaks your heart
Moved to the city in a broke down car, and four years, no calls, now you're looking pretty in a hotel bar, and I can't stop. No I can't stop

ANALYSIS: One of them broke up with the other and moved out of town. Four years of no contact later, he finds her at a hotel bar looking pretty.

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So baby pull me closer in the back seat of your Rover that I know you can't afford, bite that tattoo on your shoulder.
Pull the sheets right off the corner of the mattress that you stole from your roommate back in Boulder.
We ain't ever getting older. We ain't ever getting older. We ain't ever getting older.

ANALYSIS: She buys things that cost more than she can afford to fit into the spoiled rich girl community in college. He wants to bit her shoulder as a sign of longing, he hasn't seen her in a while and he wants her closer to him. They're repeating the same events almost as if they never grew up.

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You, look as good as the day I met you. I forget just why I left you, I was insane. Stay, and play that Blink-182 song that we beat to death in Tucson, ok.

ANALYSIS: nothing has changed. She feels nostalgic and misses what they had, making her forget why she left him to begin with. The writers mentioned listening to 'i miss you' by blink while writing this song, and it inspired them to write more lyrics.

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I know it breaks your heart
Moved to the city in a broke down car, and four years, no calls, now I'm looking pretty in a hotel bar, and I can't stop. No I can't stop

ANALYSIS: One of them broke up with the other and moved out of town. Four years of no contact later, he finds her at a hotel bar looking pretty.

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So baby pull me closer in the back seat of your Rover that I know you can't afford, bite that tattoo on your shoulder.
Pull the sheets right off the corner of the mattress that you stole from your roommate back in Boulder.
We ain't ever getting older. We ain't ever getting older. We ain't ever getting older.

ANALYSIS: She buys things that cost more than she can afford to fit into the spoiled rich girl community in college. He wants to bit her shoulder as a sign of longing, he hasn't seen her in a while and he wants her closer to him. They're repeating the same events almost as if they never grew up.

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So baby pull me closer in the back seat of your Rover that I know you can't afford, bite that tattoo on your shoulder.
Pull the sheets right off the corner of the mattress that you stole from your roommate back in Boulder.
We ain't ever getting older. We ain't ever getting older. We ain't ever getting older.
We ain't ever getting older. We ain't ever getting older.
We ain't ever getting older. No we ain't ever getting older.

ANALYSIS: She buys things that cost more than she can afford to fit into the spoiled rich girl community in college. He wants to bit her shoulder as a sign of longing, he hasn't seen her in a while and he wants her closer to him. They're repeating the same events almost as if they never grew up.