Grayscale shared with PasteMagazine the meaning of this song.
This was the last song we wrote on the record. Dallas and I often feel out song ideas acoustically before demoing them out. This time, we went into writing knowing that all along this track felt right as an acoustic one. The song is abou...
[Verse 1]
Stained glass patterns porcelain
Your watercolors running
All your paintings are fading from the walls
Miss, I miss the way you breathe
The way you twitch in your sleep
Your smile, your straight teeth
And the scars along on your cheeks
[Pre-Chorus]
Ooh, ooh, I should have wrote that letter
You looked beautiful in white but I stayed home, oh
Could never live without you, but I guess I’ll have to
You're gone, gone, gone
[Chorus]
All the promises, vows under the covers
We would play pretend my love
But it was real to me
Now I waste my days away
I know I can’t recover
There’s no love lost, but I’ll be forever yours
[Verse 2]
Walk the grove we’d always go
Where the summer made our shadows tall
I look out for them, but now there's only one
Run my hands through winter grass
Pretend I feel your warmth again
But the grass is cold and dead
My pain might never end
[Pre-Chorus]
Ooh, ooh, that cathedral hall
And that ivy wall aisle I'll never know, oh
Could never live without you, but I guess I’ll have to
You're gone, gone, gone
[Chorus]
All the promises, vows under the covers
We would play pretend my love
But it was real to me
Now I waste my days away
I know I can’t recover
There’s no love lost, but I’ll be forever yours
[Bridge]
Forever yours, forever yours
No love lost, but I’ll be forever yours
Forever yours, forever yours
No love lost, but I’ll be forever yours
[Verse 3]
Place my bouquet of old regrets
Drop the weight of my sins
The ground takes in the better man I could have been
[Chorus]
All the promises, vows under the covers
We would play pretend my love
But it was real to me
Now I waste my days away
I know I can’t recover
There’s no love lost, but I’ll be forever yours
[Outro]
Forever yours, forever yours
No love lost, but I’ll be forever yours
Forever yours, forever yours
No love lost, but I’ll be forever yours
Forever Yours was written by Nicholas Veno & Dallas Molster & Curtis Peoples & Collin Walsh & Andrew Kyne.
Forever Yours was produced by Curtis Peoples & Colin CreeV & Kyle Black.
Grayscale released Forever Yours on Fri May 05 2017.
Vocalist Collin Walsh told Billboard about the meaning behind the song when the video got released.
‘Forever Yours’ is a song about regret. It’s a song about a relationship falling apart without having a chance to gain closure due to unfortunate circumstances.