He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
This could be the very minute
I'm aware I'm alive
All these places feel like home
With a name I'd never chosen
I can make my first steps
As a child of twenty-five
This is the straw, final straw in the
Roof of my mouth as I lie to you
Just because I'm sorry doesn't mean
I didn't enjoy it at the time
You're the only thing that I love
Scares me more every day
On my knees I think clearer
Goodness knows I saw it coming
Or at least I'll claim I did
But in truth I'm lost for words
What have I done? It's too late for that
What have I become? Truth is nothing yet
A simple mistake starts the hardest time
I promise I'll do anything you ask, this time
I'm aware I'm alive
All these places feel like home
With a name I'd never chosen
I can make my first steps
As a child of twenty-five
This is the straw, final straw in the
Roof of my mouth as I lie to you
Just because I'm sorry doesn't mean
I didn't enjoy it at the time
You're the only thing that I love
Scares me more every day
On my knees I think clearer
Goodness knows I saw it coming
Or at least I'll claim I did
But in truth I'm lost for words
What have I done? It's too late for that
What have I become? Truth is nothing yet
A simple mistake starts the hardest time
I promise I'll do anything you ask, this time
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Like a lot of the other comments are saying, I think this mainly about voyeurism. If the song was about his girlfriend, then why would he use the word spy. If you are a spy it means you shouldn't be caught, that is kind of the whole point, and if you are a voyeur, the whole point of the pleasure you get from it, is the fact that the other people don't know you are watching them. See a bit of a connection there?
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Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
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" Who cares why it's called chocolate.. its a fucking great song!"-Splaire89
Well, everyone visiting this web page should care, except for the likes of you, obviously. The point of this entire website is to find meaning behind songs, not to let everyone know how much you love the song.
I like cheryluk's observation that lies, like cheating, are addictive and sweet. I personally thought that this song is named chocolate b/c it is an apology and a plea to a girl. Apologies by cheating men are often accompanied by a gift, such as flowers...or chocolates.
Actually, Lightbody wrote this song after he cheated on his girlfriend, so its really about that and the mistakes he's made. He is reflecting upon the experience and he regrets the decision he made. In a way, he's apologizing to her, while at the same time accepting full responsibility for his actions. He wants to start new, but that will always hang over his head. That's what the song is about.
One of the best songs on their lastest album.
"This could be the very minute I'm aware i'm alive All these places feel like home With a name i'd never chosen I can make my first steps As a child of 25"
The first verse is the best in the whole song.
i really like this song, the actual music and the lyrics. I think it is about growing up and becoming more mature (1st verse) but he is doing it for someone he loves and made mistakes with previously. "...as I lie to you Just because i'm sorry doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it at the time" i love the next part "You're the only thing that I love Scares me more every day" putting all your hopes and trust in one person may be quite scary. he is obviously trying to regain her trust and start their relationship over again as he says that he promises he willl do anything this time.
Chocolate an amazing song...his whole life is like chocolate. His lies are addictive and makes everything seem sweet, when he gets caught out things get sticky and when things heat up and he is afraid of losing his gf and wants to regain her trust his vizard of lies melts. This is the straw, final straw in the Roof of my mouth as I lie to you Just because i'm sorry doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it at the time.
You're the only thing that I love Scares me more every day On my knees I think clearer Goodness knows I saw it coming Or at least I'll claim I did But in truth I'm lost for words
Reminds me of some1 being caught having an affair and he is grovelling for forgiveness
Thinking a bit more it makes more sense if it was an affair.
Just because i'm sorry doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it at the time.
You could see this as a response to the question: "Did you enjoy it?" which wouldn't have been asked about a drugs issue.
I think this song is about taking drugs but he called it Chocolate(something that we joke about as addictive,eg a chocoholic) because he couldn't call it "heroin". He says he's sorry but he still enjoyed it at the time. That would be the guilt he is feeling as we attach a stigma to drugs and we are taught they are wrong. Drugs are the only things he loves as this is what happens when you become an addict. he says "what have I done" meaning he regrets getting addicted but "it's too late" and he is a slave to drugs "I promise I'll do anything you ask" and his life revolves around them like what happens to most drug addicts ("you're the only thing that I love" but it still "scares" him) He feels "alive" as this is the first time he has taken them. He "lies to you" as addicts often cover up what they are doing. "he saw it coming" as he is trying to tell himself he can control it. He is on "his knees" as this is the image we always have of someone injecting. Not that I think he's a heroin addict though. favourite song of last few years.
@nickymcgla Hi, I know I may be inevitably late on this one, but I think I like your analysis to these lyrics the best. I mean sure, this song - as do many of Gary's songs - are about a struggle in some relationship, but I think you're on to something when you are associating his lyrics with some sort of substance abuse. You say it's drugs, but if it is anything he would be writing of within the struggles of addiction, it would most likely be alcohol. Gary (lead singer and also songwriter of the band, as you may know him), suffered through an agonizing conflict with alcohol addiction and depression. The timing of this song may as well indicate whether that is or isn't the case, because he did mention it was a 7 year battle. (He says currently that he is 2 years sober, now at the age of 42 - with it being 2019, subtract 2 and you get 2017. That may be the year in which he decided to turn his life around. So around 2007, may be where his addiction starts? Idk, that may be too technical.) Anyways, why I find your out look on these lyrics so much more intriguing, is the part when he says, "you're the only thing that I love, it scares me more every day...". Sure, once again it may be about a girl he has now realized he absolutely loves, and now is utterly galvanized at the mere fact of loosing her, but look at it this way. Just as you explain, he may be realizing that alcohol (his drug of choice), is his only love, and it scares him more at the fact that his addiction and need of alcohol is becoming stronger and uncontrollable each day. Thank you so much for your opinion on this song, as it has made me look at this song in new light. Also, his pleas of forgiveness in this song may be directed toward himself, and not to a lover, as he is trying to get himself out of this situation. Absolutely amazing observation, and creative outlook. Not going to say any more, as you have pretty much covered all the genius. Well done.
The song's meaning is obvious me. Its most likely about a guy who wrote this to his ex-girlfriend after she left him because he used to lie to her. His lies could have been about anything, even an affair. And now he says he was always really sorry for lieing to her, but now he realizes what he's done. She's gone, and he's gone through hard times but he swears its the "final straw" (meaning the last time). And he also says he doesn't know the meaning of truth yet but he promises he'll do anything for her. Its a feeling everyone can relate to. You didn't know what you had cause you took it for granted. Its a sad part of humanity.
To me, this song represents sort of an awakening. Perhaps he took a relationship for granted and has come to realize how good he really has it...or had it. It's changed his whole outlook on life, and thus he begins his life again at 25. The final straw, I think, is him expressing anger toward himself for his actions. The comment about being sorry and enjoying whatever he did just seems like raw honesty to me. Perhaps he just wants to be completely open with whoever he is speaking to. The next part is maybe the most clear, to me anyway. He loves the person he is speaking to, and that realization frightens him. We probably all know what that is like. Being on his knees most likely symbolizes begging for forgiveness. I think he didn't see it coming...because he says "or at least I'll claim I did." In truth, he is speechless and maybe shocked toward how strongly he feels. Next he realizes it is too late to turn back from whatever wrong he committed. He then says that he hasn't yet amounted to anything in life. His promise I think represents more begging. I love this song, and without it, I wouldn't have ever gotten into this band.
I think it makes more sense if he uses the word chocolate as a metaphor for drugs so as not to sound too crude. The "simple mistake" is when he first got addicted (which is "the hardest time"). You know what he probably didn't have a clear idea of what it's about. It might have been about drugs or an affair to him. At the end of the day he probably didn't think we would sit and analyse it. I know some lines don't make much sense in my songs, sometimes they just rhyme!