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They were sitting
They were talking in the strawberry swing
Every moment was so precious
They were sitting
They were talking in the strawberry swing
Everybody was for fighting
Wouldn't wanna waste a thing
Cold, cold water
Bring me round
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Cold, cold water
What ya say?
It's such
It's such a perfect day
It's such a perfect day
I remember
We were walking up to strawberry swing
I can't wait 'til the morning
Wouldn't wanna change a thing
People moving all the time
Inside a perfectly straight line
Don't you wanna curve away
It's such
It's such a perfect day
It's such a perfect day
Now the sky could be blue
I don't mind
Without you it's a waste of time
Could be blue
I don't mind
Without you it's a waste of time
Could be blue,
Could be grey
Without you I'm just miles away
Could be blue
I don't mind
Without you it's a waste of time.
They were talking in the strawberry swing
Every moment was so precious
They were sitting
They were talking in the strawberry swing
Everybody was for fighting
Wouldn't wanna waste a thing
Cold, cold water
Bring me round
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Cold, cold water
What ya say?
It's such
It's such a perfect day
It's such a perfect day
I remember
We were walking up to strawberry swing
I can't wait 'til the morning
Wouldn't wanna change a thing
People moving all the time
Inside a perfectly straight line
Don't you wanna curve away
It's such
It's such a perfect day
It's such a perfect day
Now the sky could be blue
I don't mind
Without you it's a waste of time
Could be blue
I don't mind
Without you it's a waste of time
Could be blue,
Could be grey
Without you I'm just miles away
Could be blue
I don't mind
Without you it's a waste of time.
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I would like to point out the clapping sounds at the beginning, and how they are replaced by drums gradually. I think this is symbolic of how primitive turns into rhythmic and routine.
I believe the "strawberry" is not literal, but symbolic of the sweetness of being on swings as a child with his childhood crush.
Then I think he goes back to an adult perspective on the situation when he refers to "they" as he is referring to him and his childhood crush.
The cold water is symbolic of memories and the things they entail. His "feet won't touch the ground" because he is now grown up and unable to feel how he felt as a child. The alarm-ish sounding noise in the background of "It's such a perfect day" is a realization that he has woken up and gotten to see the world for the truth and not for its beauty.
He goes back to being a child in the fourth stanza.
In the fifth stanza, he is feeling really nostalgic. He is aware that things have changed and everything is "straight"; boring. He wants to change, do something childish.
When he says, "I don't mind" in reference to the sky, he is essentially saying that he doesn't care about anything, he doesn't see that "perfect day" anymore without her. He wants to feel that perfect day again, but he can't do it without her.
When I first listened to this song I thought it was about the bliss of childhood, but as I listened I began to think it could also be about young love, or a first love.
"Every moment was so precious" is about the sweet, simplistic, innocent time they spend together. Their relationship is precious--childlike in a beautiful way.
"Now my feet won't touch the ground" reminds me of the feeling of weightlessness you receive when you're with the someone you love.
"It's such a perfect day" is repeated for emphasis. The days spent together are more than perfect.
"Wouldn't wanna change a thing" is showing how wonderful it seems to him (or her, I suppose), just the way it is.
"People moving all the time
Inside a perfectly straight line
Don't you wanna just curve away
When it's such
When it's such a perfect day
It's such a perfect day" is a little more difficult to explain, but it makes me think that the rest if the world just seems so monotonous to him, and doesn't want to fall into the same trap as everybody else. He asks for the other to "curve away" with them, or make their life more lively or worthwhile and interesting. (Or when I thought this was about childhood, I took it as not wanting their pure, beautiful to be tainted by the world.)
"Now the sky could be blue
I don't mind
Without you it's a waste of time" speaks of how without her life and every action is pointless, and he can't live without her around.
I could very well be wrong. That's just my take on it.
I feel so luck that I saw one of the last concerts of viva la vida tour!