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This lyric is about a relationship that has been going bad for quite some time. There's been no affection at all no intimacy either spoken or physical. But we talked about this, and things seem to be getting better. Been out of the blue, comes this bullshit about her wanting to leave. Being a perceptive person, I can see through all the lies and know that there's somebody else. I call her on this, and it makes me angry. Basically I say go ahead and leave it's not going to kill me or crush me.

This lyric is about a girlfriend I was with and she was very bad at communicating her feelings, unlike me. I'm a very perceptive person, and we had been going out for years. I knew when she was keeping something from me and wouldn't tell me. She also had a very hard time showing affection and expressing love. I found this all very frustrating, and it got to the point where I knew she didn't love me anymore. This is an old lyric that I wrote some time ago when I was probably in my 30s about her. I just took it and rewrote it a little bit, but I always kept the title you don't love me no more. I hope you enjoy it.

Communication is one of the biggest challenges couples face. Most of the fatal issues that end up burying relationships are things that'd have been easily solved by a few minutes of honest conversation. That is the dilemma the persona in this song finds himself grappling with. In Verse 1 he alludes to the fact that the lover reacts quite negatively when they have arguments. He likes to pour his heart out, and says he doesn't want to measure his words. They had agreed to be brutally frank with each other should matters arise, yet when he uses that latitude to express himself, the other gets offended most times. In Verse 2 the same thought is followed up: she prefers to solve problems using parables and indirect references, forcing him to read between her lines to figure out what she's trying to say, and that often adds salt to the injury, when he finds himself unable to get her. The Chorus is a heavy confession: she puts him between a rock and a hard place, trying to choose between her fragile feelings and the naked truth. If it's all about protecting her from the hurt, then he loses his voice in situations where the truth would inevitably destroy her. The Bridge further intensifies the drama, buttressing the apparent irony in her actions. She's afraid to face the truth, and is conservative with it when it comes to her turn to speak.

The song is about songwriting. The art is personified as a woman who the persona is madly in love with. He had earlier on just finished writing a 10th album, which he says "is sounding right." Now it's onto the 11th, and it's "time to focus on the rhymes" since "we got just one short life." Because time is passing by, despite the many songs "they" have written together, they are determined to write even more, stockpiling them for the future. "The past is gone and will never be again," and "all we have is the here and now," a moment which might easily be missed if it's not seized. "There's nothing left to do," and "nothing else to do," let's us know that he has abandoned himself to his art, and finds the meaning of his existence in it. Verse 2 is a romantic description of his love for the art. He has "never seen a girl with such fire in her eyes," and she makes him lose his focus when she smiles. Songwriting has taken him to heights he never dreamt he would find, and opened up to him a whole different dimension full of nothing but pure bliss. It's a craft he finds tremendous fulfillment from; the best way he thinks he can spend his "one short life."

In the mid 80s until the mid-90s I was really into grunge music. Bands like tad, Green River, mudhoney, Pearl jam, Mother Love Bone, and Nirvana just to name some of them. So yesterday I wrote this lyric thinking back to when I was a teenager, and knew some of these guys in school that were like my lyric. I was a jock / athlete if you don't know what jock means. I definitely like the smoke pot before school, during school and after school but I wasn't an outcast, didn't wear black, and didn't see the world in such a dark way. Lyric is about that type of teenager, who's angry, full of frustration, is rebellious, and just wants a way out of the town he's living in the Life he's living in but doesn't know how. That's definitely a dangerous thing for this type of teenager.