"2's My Favorite 1"

"2's My Favorite 1" is a song by the American rock band Coheed and Cambria. It is the ninth track on their 2013 album The Afterman: Descension. A demo version of the song was released on The Afterman: Descension (Big Beige Demos) album and a live version was available on the The Afterman: Live album.

Lyrics
[Verse 1] Two hearts beat as one Disguise your mind and feel the hum This drone, the buzz of our love

In time, we move This churning factor, feel the groove Release the touch that moves you

[Chorus] Oh, this is her, no regrets I embrace your defects to confess You were my every wish I admit that I will never feel alone Once I call you Home

[Verse 2] Push towards the dance floor And together, we'll show them who's boss We'll set a fire, once more

[Chorus] Oh, this is her, no regrets I embrace your defects to confess You were my every wish I admit that I will never feel alone Once I call you Home

[Bridge] Maybe it's not now or later 'Til you save the best for last I want to be everything you need

[Chorus] Oh, this is her, no regrets I embrace your defects to confess You were my every wish I admit that I will never feel No, I will never feel alone

Our sum in monotone While the record spins around Please turn me over, slide me into sleeve Oh girl, please bring me home

Story Context
"" Filled with renewed purpose, Sirius returns to the Keywork. On the way, he thinks about what he can give Meri: A new life in the utopia of the Keywork. He's going to lead her soul to The Samaritaine. He imagines dancing and singing with her in a happy moment of forever paradise. Many of the lines of this song invoke this feeling.

Sirius has realized all the fame and fortune he could ever ask for don't replace Meri and what she represents to him: Home. ("I admit that I will never feel alone / Once I call you home.")

The last lines solidify this concept. "Our sum in monotone" means them reuniting in The Mono, "While the record spins around / Please turn me over, slide me into sleeve" invokes the image of a vinyl record playing until it finishes, and you put in back into its proper place, "Oh girl, please bring me home" being a conclusion to the metaphor of Meri being the listener to this album and putting Sirius back in his home, the sleeve.

Background
Sanchez said the heaviness in the album was meant to come full circle to this: an "acknowledging that there is an innocence to loving another human being that cannot be duplicated with any event or circumstance or possibility."

Trivia

 * Sanchez said that the line, "I'll never feel alone, Once I call you Home" is meant to say that, "I've found a person who fits... my wife is my home."