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We speak in the store
I'm a sensitive bore
You seem markedly more
And I'm oozing surprise
But it's late in the day
And you're well on your way
What was golden went gray
And I'm suddenly shy
And the gatherin' floozies
Afford to be choosy
And all sneezing darkly
In the dimming divide
And I have read the right books
To interpret your looks
You were knocking me down
With the palm of your eye
This was unlike the story
It was written to be
I was riding its back
When it used to ride me
And we were galloping manic
To the mouth of the source
We were swallowing panic
In the face of its force
And I am blue
I am blue and unwell
Made me bolt like a horse
Now it's done
Watch it go
You've changed some
water runs from the snow
Am I so dear?
Do I run rare?
And you've changed some
Peach, plum, pear...
Peach, plum...
I'm a sensitive bore
You seem markedly more
And I'm oozing surprise
But it's late in the day
And you're well on your way
What was golden went gray
And I'm suddenly shy
And the gatherin' floozies
Afford to be choosy
And all sneezing darkly
In the dimming divide
And I have read the right books
To interpret your looks
You were knocking me down
With the palm of your eye
This was unlike the story
It was written to be
I was riding its back
When it used to ride me
And we were galloping manic
To the mouth of the source
We were swallowing panic
In the face of its force
And I am blue
I am blue and unwell
Made me bolt like a horse
Now it's done
Watch it go
You've changed some
water runs from the snow
Am I so dear?
Do I run rare?
And you've changed some
Peach, plum, pear...
Peach, plum...
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Last line: "peach, plum, pear, peach, plum"
The other lyrics are an emotional story told about a relationship.
It's almost like the main lyrics exist in a storytelling bubble.
But the story is being told at a store, maybe a supermarket.
Once the story is over, the narrator looks around.
Self-conscious, she just names the first thing in sight.
Peach, plum, pear.
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Also I hear "I WAS blue," instead of "I AM blue."
'But it's late in the day
And you're well on your way
What was golden went gray
And I'm suddenly shy'
The transition from having confidence and feeling sunny to feeling dark and introverted.
The whole section below covers this:
'This was unlike the story
It was written to be'
Disappointed in not having a 'happy ending'
'I was riding its back
When it used to ride me'
Lack of control.
'And we were galloping manic
To the mouth of the source
We were swallowing panic
In the face of its force,
Mania and panic all parts of depression.
'And I am blue
I am blue and unwell'
I think Peach, Plum, Pear kind of sums it up representing different aspects of the same thing.
'But it's late in the day
And you're well on your way
What was golden went gray
And I'm suddenly shy'
The transition from having confidence and feeling sunny to feeling dark and introverted.
The whole section below covers this:
'This was unlike the story
It was written to be'
Disappointed in not having a 'happy ending'
'I was riding its back
When it used to ride me'
Lack of control.
'And we were galloping manic
To the mouth of the source
We were swallowing panic
In the face of its force,
Mania and panic all parts of depression.
'And I am blue
I am blue and unwell'
I think Peach, Plum, Pear kind of sums it up representing different aspects of the same thing.
This is my accompaniment to the verses:
Planned proposition
They match
She's exited
He's not interested
Loses interest
She's read books on this, she's prepared herself greatly for this opportunity, but it means she knows from the looks he gives her that he's not interested (the palm - used to push something away - of your eye)
He rejects her
Na na nana na - children, children/peers mocking her maybe?
NOT how she wanted it
She'd made this story up
Now it was going where it wanted, she rides it frightened
She's panicked by this
It runs to the "source"
The reason she wants this relationship is because she's alone, because she wants company, because she thinks he'll make her life better, any of these, that is her original position or "source" and the story runs to that. She's back to square one.
In this position she looks back
Blue now, not red with love and the exitement
Unwell - lovesick?,
Bolt like a horse, when horses are scared, now she is scared as a result of rejection - change
Now it's gone - She's looking back
She tells herself to watch it go (letting go/release)
You've changed some (change theme)
Water runs from snow, it changes form (change), it runs (he ran away, if she used to be snow (her situation, or herself) and now she is water (or her situation). She's changed, and she shies (or runs) away from snow because she's scared of rejection again
It makes her question herself
After being confident in her beauty/intelligence/suitability it's a knock to her confidence
Is she so dear? (Is she all that she thought she was? As valuable?)
Does she run rare? (Is she uniquely suitable like she thought she was? Are there many like her?)
And you've changed some (prononciation of some not as "sum" but "som" a reference to her name New"som"? She's changed because of this)
Peach, Plum, Pear (How she thought she'd change)
Peach, Plum *NO PEAR* (An interruption, things don't go as planned)
I love this so much.
i think its about a relationship not working or her starting to get mixed feelings about it
like the beginning particularly of the relationship. she thinks she's not worth his time and she's boring, and shy, and undesirable. further in the song she mentions "i was riding its back when it used to ride me" as in she's losing control of the situation bc it was "unlike the story it was written to be" .and she has competition with the floozies like theyre hiding in the shadows waiting for her to mess up or back out so they can come in. (and the "dimming divide" kind of tells us she's in the brink of it failing)
and with the last two stanzas she knows she let it go. bc "now its done". "water runs from the snow" she was frigid and frightened of something going wrong that she made it end. and i think peach, plum, pear is a kind of evolution too (like someone else commented on briefly). or atleast shifts in personality or something. like a peach and a plum are prty similar but a pear is completely different. so she was once a peach, slowly evolving into a plum (she's not completely different yet) and then arrives at this pear. not only is she completely different but she sees herself as kinda of disfigured and an outcast.
The narrator is completely smitten with a boy that she's just met. I think the "markedly more" bit is about how he seems to have *more* going for him than she, and she's thrilled (oozing surprise). This is a golden moment.
That is diminished by floozies arriving on the scene. When she seems him interacting with these ladies, she's taken aback enough to realize that he's "knocking her down with the palm of [his] eye", (which to me sounds like a dismissal). He acts differently with the other girls around. Disappointingly and hurtfully so.
What a let-down. It's a song about being wrong about a guy, ending with her questioning herself. I don't understand the "am I so dear?" part, although it sounds like she's questioning the difference between importance he'd shown her earlier, and the current disaffection. "Do I run rare?" makes me both think of her earlier sensitive bore comment. I think it's a double metaphor. One part is the imagery of meat (her heart) oozing blood (emotions). And the second part is that rare meat is undercooked, which is easily a parallel for naivity. Sensitive and naive.