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Your eyes are just like black spiders
Your hair and dress in ribbons, baby cakes
In despair or incoherent.
Nothing in between
China white, my bride tonight
Smiling on the tiles
Bring that minute back
We never get so close as when the sun-ward flight begins
I share it all with you
Powder blue
Stumble through the crowds together
They're trying to ignore us, that's o.k.
I'm proud to be the one you hold when the shakes begin
Sallow skinned, starry eyed, blessed
In our sin
Bring that minute back
We never get so close to death
Makes you so alive
I share it all with you
Powder blue
Your hair and dress in ribbons, baby cakes
In despair or incoherent.
Nothing in between
China white, my bride tonight
Smiling on the tiles
Bring that minute back
We never get so close as when the sun-ward flight begins
I share it all with you
Powder blue
Stumble through the crowds together
They're trying to ignore us, that's o.k.
I'm proud to be the one you hold when the shakes begin
Sallow skinned, starry eyed, blessed
In our sin
Bring that minute back
We never get so close to death
Makes you so alive
I share it all with you
Powder blue
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For me I is love song. The confession of love from the heroin addict man to the heroin addict girl. But sometimes I think that the confession is more stronger to the heroin than to the girl.
So another interpretation ? ;-)))
It is about the couple, but one of the best parts about music is that the same lyrics can mean different things to different people.
Its about drugs, Heroin .... china white (type of heroin) my bride tonight smiling on the tiles..when the shakes begin = drug addict on their cluck, withdrawals..... Indespair or incoherent nothing inbetween (trying to get money to score or off your face etc etc etc
also i might be wrong about this but i've always heard the first line as
Your eyes are just like black spikes (takeing heroin = dilated pupils, pin point point eyes = black spikes ..hmmm seems to fit in with the rest of the song better than somthing about spiders...
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"They're trying to ignore us" - this is the stigma of being a junkie, people pretend not to notice them.
I love how he follows with "that's okay", as in, all that really matters is they have each other. There's an irony in that, because their dependence on each other links with their dependence on "powder blue", or their drug.
"I'm proud to be the one you hold
When the shakes begin
Sallow-skinned, starry-eyed
Blessed in our sin"
I don't see how this could be anything other than reference to drugs and coming down from the high. There's tenderness in the normally horrid notion of a junkie crashing. She crashes, and he's there to take care of her - proud even, of his drug-addicted lover.
To me it's a song about acceptance with an "us against the world" sentiment. This song always makes me think of my city, Elbow's home. They nailed it.