The other man may have been a friend of the male protagonist.

The male protagonist has found out that the female protagonist has slept with someone else.

Reference to the nursery rhyme Rock-a-bye Baby, which ends “When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, / And down will come baby, cradle and all.” “Baby” is used throughout the album to refer to the female character.

This line plays on the phrase “a little birdie told me,” regarding secret information.

The quarreling lovers lapse back into a night of romance, despite their lack of feelings, out of regret for losing each other.

A common theme in Tim Kasher’s work with both Cursive and The Good Life is looking at his music through the lens of the person or people he is writing about. These lines represent that: the woman being frustrated about how she is built up in his lyrics.

These lyrics are spoken from the wife’s point of view, attempting to explain to the male character that his drinking, tears and emotional outbursts are only for show. He’s attempting to make a martyr out of himself to their friends by pretending to be painting himself as the victim.

While things may appear okay between the arguing couple during the day, at night things explode between them.

The drunker the arguing couple get, the louder their fighting gets.