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Feb 18th 2013!⃝This song is about being able to keep going/moving on when times get tough.
"And I found you with a bottle of wine, your head in the curtains, and heart like the Fourth of July." Nate could be talking about seeing his friend/girlfriend upset and drinking to cope with it. He might also be talking about himself because he has said that he does sometimes drink to control his anxiety and nervousness.
"You swore and said 'We are not, we are not shining stars.' This I know. I never said we are." The same person as before could be saying that they havent made it in the music industry, and Nate is simply agreeing with them.
"Though I've never been throught ____ like that, I've closed enough windows to know you can never look back." Nate is saying here that he has been through some really bad times, and that sometimes you do things that 'close a window of opprotunity' and you have to keep your head up and keep looking forward, even if the situation your in really sucks.
"If you're lost and alone, or you're sinking like a stone, carry on. May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground. Carry on." He's saying that if you think you're done and you cant keep going, you auctually can, and that your past is the past and that you can only grow from it.
"So I met up with some friends at the edge of the night, at a bar off 75. And we talked and talked about how our parents will die, our neighbors and wifes." He is talking about how eventually everyone dies, no matter how much you love them.
"But I like to think, I can cheat it all, to make up for the times I've been cheated on. And it's nice to know, when I was left for dead, I was found and now I don't haunt these streets, I am not the ghost you are to me." Nate might be talking about how he has been dropped by different recording agencies, and how FuledByRamen came, and picked them up after Nettwerk Music dropped them, and how Nettwerk Music is 'dead' to him.
"Oh, my head is on fire, but my legs are fine, after all they are mine." He could be saying that he is just so confused and doesn't really know what to do, but he keeps going.
"Lay your clothes on the floor. Close the door. Hold the phone. Show me how, no one's ever going to stop us now." Nate might be saying how he and some girl have liked eachother for a while, but no one approved of their relationship, so they now don't care about others, and they are going to do what they want because they love eachother.
"'Cause we are, we are shining stars. We are invincible. We are who we are. On our darkest days,when we're miles away, the sun will come, we will find our way home." He now thinks that they have auctually made it in the music industry, and that they became succussful be being who they are. He is also saying that if they start forgetting who they are, something always pulls them back to reality.
This meaning might be completely off, but this is what I think it means.
