You And Me Lyrics Meaning

I selected "You and Me" for a video that I produced and presented to my girlfriend to commemorate our one-year anniversary. We've been together for three years as of this writing and will be married in 2011. The song describes us perfectly.

The first verse ("the clock never seemed so alive") is all about how time flies when you're having fun and in a new relationship. I'm divorced, so the last line in that verse ("I've been losing so much time") touches on the fact that it has taken me so long to finally find my true soulmate. In the chorus we celebrate the fact that we are no longer part of the dating scene ("you and me and all of the people with nothing to do, nothing to lose") and the amazement that we are so completely in love ("I can't keep my eyes off of you").

In the second verse I want the relationship to work ("All of the things that I want to say") but I'm struggling with being ready for the next step ("I don't know where to go from here").

After repeating the chorus the bridge reinforces an underlying feeling of awe. There's something about her and about the relationship that is almost too good to be true ("everything she does is beautiful, everything she does is right").

The next trip through the chorus is quiet, almost as if I'm thinking it to myself, followed by a proclamation that it's you and me. The song ends the same as it started, with time flying by because we're just as in love as we were when the relationship began.