Sometimes you come back to a song and hear it completely differently. Before you this was just a beautiful and emotional song...now I hear what we experience and have experienced.
It was this one line that caught my attention and I had such a " Oh.My.God- dots connecting" moment.
"....So someone with your eyes
Might come in time to hold me like water"
I never noticed till this moment that his eyes were crucial when I met him,they were warm,caring and with an array of different shades I could get lost in them,but what I didn't see then...I already knew those eyes as they were like yours yet I didn't really know you then did I? but his eyes were familiar because I've always seen you in my mind,back when as a little girl I wished for my Superman to come save me I saw glimpses of you,the adult you and the eyes in particular. So yes,he is someone with your eyes who tries to hold me but I am not his to hold(hence the water reference).
Then verse two is entirely a description of what we both have experienced in our individual lives,with those we settled with
"You and I burned out our steam
Chasing someone else's dream
How can somethin' be so much heavier
But so much less than what it seems?
Darling, we sacrificed
We gave our time to somethin' undefined
This phantom life sharpens like an image
But it sharpens like a knife"