come over to talk — Summary

lyndsey599Romantic

i wish you would come over. now that my plate is cleared i wish you'd come over for some closure. but the closure they talk about in songs, that never actually solve anything. it's a bad cycle, it's not good for the soul or the mind but it's good for the body. how could anyone say it's bad for the body when we fit so perfectly inside of each other? our bodies find our match. the other half that fits in every part of us. the way you push the hair out of my face. the way you held my hand so gently to way your hands wrapped around my neck and scratched down my back. a perfect fit. a perfect love. so please, come over just to talk.

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The speaker is asking an ex, or someone they've been entangled with, to come over "just to talk." But the poem quickly suggests that talking isn't the whole story. They admit that the closure people sing about never really fixes anything, and they call the relationship a "bad cycle" that is hard on the mind and soul. Yet they can't bring themselves to call it bad for the body, because physically the two fit together so well.

The memories they choose are tender and intense at once: a hand pushing hair out of their face, a gentle grip, then hands around the neck and scratches down the back. Closeness and desire are tangled up together. The repeated "perfect fit" and "perfect love" show the speaker mixing up physical match with real love.

The mood is lonely, honest, and a little self-deceiving. The final line sounds calm, but after everything before it, "just to talk" feels like an excuse, and the speaker seems to know it.

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