Interesting thoughts.

Tom says this song is about being in pain after taking to many meds just like tom did when recording this album. He had huge problem with his back and couldn't stand up for more than 5 minutes. He had problems with girlfriend and the life off the road and to get it all together.

"This vacation's useless
These white pills aren't kind
I've given a lot of thought on this 13-hour drive
I miss the grinding concrete where we sat past 8 or 9
And slowly finished laughing in the glow of our headlights"

vacation dosnt help when you're in pain, taking meds, bein oon tour and drive for 13-hour straight makes you think a lot of how it used to be.

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"I've given a lot of thought to the nights we use to have
The days have come and gone
Our lives went by so fast
I faintly remember breathing on your bedroom floor
Where I laid and told you, but you sweared you loved me more"

this is about thinkin back, sentimental shit. It was better a couple years ago. and the words about the bathroom: there also he means bein in pain. He had to laid down when took a shower cause he couldnt stand straight up. and this made him kinda sad and down. He told his girl he loved her, she told him back.

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"Do you care if I don't know what to say
Will you sleep tonight, will you think of me
Will I shake this off pretend its all okay
That there someone out there who feels just like me
There is"

here he means being on tour and get calls from his girlfriend. asking: will you sleep tonight ? and other cute stuff and deep inside he knows being on tour destroys their relationship, "shake it off pretend its all okey" that his girlfriend feel exactly the same.

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Those notes you wrote me
I've kept them all
I've given a lot of thought of how to write you back this fall
With every single letter in every single word
There will be a hidden message about a boy that
loves a girl

Being home, getting post-it notes and stuff like that from his girlfriend. just a regular thing, tom missed that. So he brought some of them on the tour and decided to wrote her back when coming home from the tour.

This "song meaning" is inspired when I asked tom what the song was about when I met him once.