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"This song is about…waking up under a bush in your ex-girlfriend’s garden…this is a song is about getting drunk and forgetting you don’t go out with her anymore, forgetting she doens’t love you anymore. So this is about…wanting too much, wanting to be close to someone too much, wanting to know where they are all the time, and when they’re going out you’re like “Where are you going?” or “What time will you be back?” or “I’ll come with you”. It’s about trying to do the right thing, trying to withdraw so that you don’t love so much, trying to go “ok”. And in doing so, something inside of you just dies and you turn off, and then like all things in life, she falls in love with you and you don’t care. And it’s a song of hope."
— Glen Hansard of The Frames, intro to What Happens When The Heart Just Stops
