Though You Weren’t Meant To See That may seem to have a simple meaning at first, the band describes the track as one that “touches on how a past event can shape the way we live in the present, and how the present can determine the way we remember our past.” It contains themes of anxiety around emoti...
[Verse 1]
I was in the other room
Just laying on the carpet
Sinking like a summer moon
Slipping through a tar pit
[Chorus]
You weren’t meant to see that
You weren’t meant to see that
[Verse 2]
Of course there’s joy in the mundane
Like hauling down the highway
But then I swerved into the other lane
And flipped over the barricades
[Chorus]
You weren’t meant to see that
You weren’t meant to see that
[Bridge]
I watched the windows shatter
As if it ever mattered
And for once in my life I see things for what they are
And not through the lens of profit and achievement
It’s nothing when you need it
One of those fortune cookie proclamations
That I could never swallow
You weren’t meant to see that
All the shit I should hold back
'Cause it’s all in my head and I can see it through your swampy eyes
That I won’t always be the only one for you
The Rare Occasions released You Weren’t Meant to See That on Tue Apr 17 2018.