Let the loose lips kiss you clean: mouth-to-mouth, and either it's a reference to the fact that you have to make sure the airway's unblocked (a 'clean' airway) when you do mouth-to-mouth, or it's a reference to a non-sexual (i.e.: 'clean') kiss Oh, it's a damned fine game, and we can play all night: sounds like he's saying if she does give up, he's going to keep giving CPR until she stops 'playing around.' More to mine than fact, face, name and monetary: ambulances and stuff want your insurance info and vital stats, but he's saying that his lover ('mine') is more than just a bunch of facts.Д«e what you will and then throw down your life: either it's a suicide, or he's saying she's giving up the fight to stay alive Note the trees because the dirt is temporary: they're between the high tide line and the current level of the surf trees don't grow below the high-tide line. The woman's part is the victim speaking: oh, my own voice cannot save me now (underwater, you can't talk), one more breath and then I go down (she's suffocating)

The lover is inside: the victim is his loverДЄnd all the tumult's done: the car wreck is over (or, he just pulled her out of the surf, which is also a 'tumult')Д¬ollided with the sign, you're standing in the sea: her feet are still being lapped by the water (literal or no) Your mouth is open wide: that's cause she's unconscious, and it's the position you put someone in to give mouth-to-mouth Standing in the sea: either it's a literal beach, and he's just above the surf, or the 'water' is a suffocation death (since she's not breathing). Staring at the sun: she's on her back as he gives CPR We all get tired of living once we grow up We were all weaned my dear upon the same fatigue: Hear me hailing from inside and realize I am the conscience clear in pain or ecstacy: he's calling her to 'come back from the light,' so to speak. I don't know.half the song is from the point of view of the victim, and part from her lover.Д¬ross the street from your storefront cemetary: He approaches her body the author might be making a reference to the fact that since she's not breathing (in fact, suffocating), it's like drowning. Now, whether the wreck happened on an actual beach or not, I don't know. General CommentHere's my guess on this song.ДЄ lady was driving in front of a store and hit a sign, and now her lover is giving her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and CPR. Like light, like answering (chorus comes over this part) the sun Cross the street from your storefront cemetery.

Lyrics to staring at the sun