I’ve been having real issues interpreting this song because it’s so easy to do contradictory readings of the thing. This is one version, I might post one of the opposites sometime. This is closer to what I feel about it right now though.
‘Be still for a second while I try and try to pin your flowers on’
The girl is restless while he wants to take the time to do the little things that may or may not matter, the little gestures that can easily slip unnoticed. It shows the difference in their personalities. She can’t stay still while he can take the extra time for something insignificant.
‘Can you carry my drink I have everything else
I can tie my tie all by myself’
He tries to take on too much responsibility, either because he doesn’t trust her to do these things or he thinks he has to.
‘I’m getting tired/tied, I’m forgetting why’
If he’s unsure about getting tied then he has doubts about the relationship and can’t work out what to do. He keeps taking things further and doesn’t know how to get out. If he isn’t sure why he’s getting tired then it’s because he thinks things should be easier with the person you’re with.
‘Oh we’re so disarming darling,’
They had their doubts about the relationship from the start but stuck with it anyway to see what happened. Either that or they just allayed any fears they had and rushed straight in, believing that if it was meant to be then things would work out.
‘everything we did believe
is diving diving diving diving off the balcony’
They had certain ideas about love and relationships and now they’ve moved in together all of those ideals are flying out of the window.
‘Tired and wired we ruin too easy’
As someone said in a previous comment, maybe ‘we ruin to easy’ means that they’re letting things affect them that would never have made a difference before. They aren’t resilient enough as a couple.
‘sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave’
I get an image of two people laying back to back in bed, touching but only barely. There’s a coldness between them that was never there before. They’re waiting for the bad times to pass so that they can be how they were before. But they aren’t doing anything about it, they’re just ‘waiting’ and hoping.
‘Hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours
While it sings to itself or whatever it does
when it sings to itself of its long lost loves’
They rely on modern technology to keep together. They can just sit and listen to the stereo and not have to communicate – the stereo does it for them.
‘but I’ll be with you behind the couch when they come
on a different day just like this one’
On another day, in better times, they’d be fine. They’d be huddled up close together. They’d get over the trivial problems but right now they’re struggling.
‘We’ll stay inside til somebody finds us
do whatever the TV tells us
stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz for days’
Again, relying on anything that prevents them from having to communicate. In the beginning of the song they were going out and having fun. Now they can’t even be bothered to do that. They’d rather watch TV and construct a ‘rosy-minded fuzz’. Perhaps optimistic that TV can help when in a rut?
‘so worry not
all things are well
we’ll be alright
we have our looks and perfume’
Sounds very sarcastic to me, as if they have everything they need in their ‘rosy-minded fuzz’.
Could be the break-up – ‘it’s okay, we’re young and good-looking, we’ll find other people’
This is the point of their writing, they want you to be able to interpret the song in your own way and put yourself in it, while at the same time, an original meaning stays intact.
This is the point of their writing, they want you to be able to interpret the song in your own way and put yourself in it, while at the same time, an original meaning stays intact.
I’ve been having real issues interpreting this song because it’s so easy to do contradictory readings of the thing. This is one version, I might post one of the opposites sometime. This is closer to what I feel about it right now though.
‘Be still for a second while I try and try to pin your flowers on’
The girl is restless while he wants to take the time to do the little things that may or may not matter, the little gestures that can easily slip unnoticed. It shows the difference in their personalities. She can’t stay still while he can take the extra time for something insignificant.
‘Can you carry my drink I have everything else I can tie my tie all by myself’
He tries to take on too much responsibility, either because he doesn’t trust her to do these things or he thinks he has to.
‘I’m getting tired/tied, I’m forgetting why’
If he’s unsure about getting tied then he has doubts about the relationship and can’t work out what to do. He keeps taking things further and doesn’t know how to get out. If he isn’t sure why he’s getting tired then it’s because he thinks things should be easier with the person you’re with.
‘Oh we’re so disarming darling,’
They had their doubts about the relationship from the start but stuck with it anyway to see what happened. Either that or they just allayed any fears they had and rushed straight in, believing that if it was meant to be then things would work out.
‘everything we did believe is diving diving diving diving off the balcony’
They had certain ideas about love and relationships and now they’ve moved in together all of those ideals are flying out of the window.
‘Tired and wired we ruin too easy’
As someone said in a previous comment, maybe ‘we ruin to easy’ means that they’re letting things affect them that would never have made a difference before. They aren’t resilient enough as a couple.
‘sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave’
I get an image of two people laying back to back in bed, touching but only barely. There’s a coldness between them that was never there before. They’re waiting for the bad times to pass so that they can be how they were before. But they aren’t doing anything about it, they’re just ‘waiting’ and hoping.
‘Hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours While it sings to itself or whatever it does when it sings to itself of its long lost loves’
They rely on modern technology to keep together. They can just sit and listen to the stereo and not have to communicate – the stereo does it for them.
‘but I’ll be with you behind the couch when they come on a different day just like this one’
On another day, in better times, they’d be fine. They’d be huddled up close together. They’d get over the trivial problems but right now they’re struggling.
‘We’ll stay inside til somebody finds us do whatever the TV tells us stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz for days’
Again, relying on anything that prevents them from having to communicate. In the beginning of the song they were going out and having fun. Now they can’t even be bothered to do that. They’d rather watch TV and construct a ‘rosy-minded fuzz’. Perhaps optimistic that TV can help when in a rut?
‘so worry not all things are well we’ll be alright we have our looks and perfume’
Sounds very sarcastic to me, as if they have everything they need in their ‘rosy-minded fuzz’. Could be the break-up – ‘it’s okay, we’re young and good-looking, we’ll find other people’
This is the point of their writing, they want you to be able to interpret the song in your own way and put yourself in it, while at the same time, an original meaning stays intact.
This is the point of their writing, they want you to be able to interpret the song in your own way and put yourself in it, while at the same time, an original meaning stays intact.