At Night in Dreams
White Denim Lyrics

Yesterday was an accident
The past mistakes were not intentional.

On the street where they held hands
The memory of love is where they used to walk and cherish each other's company.

They were looking for their hearts
The couple were searching for a connection that they lost and desperately needed back.

They were there from the start from me to we
The couple had been together since their individual days and have progressed onto being together.

Just a little too young then to understand
Despite their time together, they still had yet to comprehend the delicate nature of relationships.

What's easy to advance isn't always made to last
The things that come quickly and easy may not be the same that last forever.

Oh, here we are
They are now reflecting their current state of relationship.

Caught shoveling past ambivalence somewhere
They are trying to dig up the past to figure out why their relationship has changed and become unclear.

Considering her half
They think about how their relationship went from being about 'us' to 'me' and 'her' myopically.

And trying not to laugh
The irony of the situation is not lost on the couple, but it's so painful they cannot help but laugh a little bit

When they can see
The past can now be seen more clearly and objectively.

The red was blood of humanity tempers the quiet
The truth of their relationship creates an internal conflict that needs communication.

And all the time they spent
The couple has realized how much time has passed and how much they've lost in the process.

And Let 'em chew another end again and again
The couple ignores the past and continuously tries to make it work despite already being chewed and churned time and again.

At night in dreams of a thousand moons and clear blue rain
The singer thinks of love in a fantastical way where everything is perfect and unreal.

Sometimes it seems that if we could build a love to free us from pain
The artist wishes they could construct the perfect love that could fix everything wrong in their relationship.

I know you think that it's easy to change but it's a symptom of age
The artist acknowledges that their partner thinks that changing their personalities is easy, but it's an innate characteristic that manifests as they grow old.

Boy treat her to a white and church house made of glass
The singer gives context by mentioning a boy trying his best to impress his partner by imagining her ideal future home.

Play an imaginary part and they knew it from the start
They both knew that pretending to be someone else and doing actions to impress each other would only last so long before they found out.

Now here we are, barely holding on to a promise of forever
The couple now finds themselves clinging onto a promise they made without understanding the complexity of the time ahead.

Made lying in the grass or it isn't such a task
The promise of forever doesn't hold the same weight as it used to, making it feel like it was done half-heartedly or that the task of holding on is not worth it.

Or maybe we just a little too cool and not to understand
The artist thinks they are too laid back and not proactive in their relationship, and because of that, they don't know a lot about what's going on.

When reason finds its end, where an open heart begins
When logical reasoning fails, it is important to have an open heart to come to conclusions.

To love again
The artist and his/her partner should love each other again and try to make it work.

We don't move on, when we don't have to
People tend to linger onto things they shouldn't move on from, but acknowledge that they will have to eventually.

We can go, we understand
The couple has now come to the realization that they can move on if they truly want to and if the circumstances call for it.

More life, more vision
There's more to life than just staying in one situation, and the singer understands the importance of seeing the bigger picture.

People seeing what they can
People see only what they are willing to; their perspective is limited by personal experience and ideology.

At night in dreams of a thousand moons and clear blue rain
The artist still finds themselves romanticizing love in an unrealistic way, in hopes of it being the way they imagined it as a child.

Sometimes it seems that if we could build a love to free us from pain
The singer is still hopeful and thinks that the true love they are destined for will, in fact, save them from their pain.

I know you think that it's easy to change but it's a symptom of age
The singer again emphasizes the idea that changing oneself is not easy and urges their partner to understand that, especially as they age.