I think this song is about fear of commitment. She's thinking back on the relationship and events that just took place and now she's trying to figure out what her decision should be.
"I don't understand about complimentary colors/and what they say/Side by side they both get bright/ Together they both get gray" -She's saying she doesn't get how people can mix and stay together without losing themselves. We shine bright on our own but once we mix were just gray.
"But he's been pretty much yellow/ And I've been kind of blue/ But all I can see is/ Red, red, red, red, red now/ What am I gonna do"- They've been two different colors but now she can see them finding a 'happy' medium of sorts and that scares her. Him yellow, meaning happiness, and her kind of blue, maybe meaning kind of sad.
"I don't understand about/Diamonds and why men buy them/What's so impressive about a diamond/Except the mining" -This could be literal or a reference. The literal explanation would be that he's proposed to her and now she's saying well i don't even like diamonds why even buy them? She could be saying that they're new age and tacky. The work to get them is better than the result. Though if it were a reference i believe it would be
"But it's dangerous work/Trying to get to you too/And I think if I didn't have to/Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill myself doing it/Maybe I wouldn't think so much of you"-She's rethinking now. Saying if she didn't have to work so hard and go through dangerous emotional territory to get him then she wouldn't value or think so much of him. She's torn between being vulnerable and not moving forward in the relationship.
"I've been watching all the time/ And I still can't find the track/ But what I wanna know is it okay/ Is it just fine/ Or is it my fault/ Is it my lack" -Shes trying to fit into the mold to commit but she cant quite figure out how to do it. Shes willing to try but its hard and she wondering if its her lack of emotion or if its someone elses fault. As well as whether or not he will still accept her with her flaws.
"I don't understand about/ The weather outside/ Or the harmony in a tune/ Or why somebody lies" -Maybe she's been hurt in the past and now she's looking back on the lies she's been told. She's trying to figure out whether or not she wants to be vulnerable again with someone new.
"There's solace a bit for submitting/ To the fitfully cryptically true'' - She's saying that there's comfort in simply submitting to what's unfortunately true, which is the evolution of the relationship. And that maybe she should let herself just get swept away and 'go with the flow.'
"What's happened has happened/ What's coming is already on its way/ With a role for me to play" -This is pretty straightforward. Everything is happening whether she likes it or not. She already has a role to play in this and she now has to make a decision about whether or not she wants to accept that role.
"I don't understand/ I'll never understand/ But I'm trying to understand/ There's nothing else I can do" -Again she's trying to make it work. She wants to make it work but there's nothing else she can do but try.
I suck at doing things like this but thats just my interpretation in really shitty words.
I think this song is about fear of commitment. She's thinking back on the relationship and events that just took place and now she's trying to figure out what her decision should be.
"I don't understand about complimentary colors/and what they say/Side by side they both get bright/ Together they both get gray" -She's saying she doesn't get how people can mix and stay together without losing themselves. We shine bright on our own but once we mix were just gray.
"But he's been pretty much yellow/ And I've been kind of blue/ But all I can see is/ Red, red, red, red, red now/ What am I gonna do"- They've been two different colors but now she can see them finding a 'happy' medium of sorts and that scares her. Him yellow, meaning happiness, and her kind of blue, maybe meaning kind of sad.
"I don't understand about/Diamonds and why men buy them/What's so impressive about a diamond/Except the mining" -This could be literal or a reference. The literal explanation would be that he's proposed to her and now she's saying well i don't even like diamonds why even buy them? She could be saying that they're new age and tacky. The work to get them is better than the result. Though if it were a reference i believe it would be
"But it's dangerous work/Trying to get to you too/And I think if I didn't have to/Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill myself doing it/Maybe I wouldn't think so much of you"-She's rethinking now. Saying if she didn't have to work so hard and go through dangerous emotional territory to get him then she wouldn't value or think so much of him. She's torn between being vulnerable and not moving forward in the relationship.
"I've been watching all the time/ And I still can't find the track/ But what I wanna know is it okay/ Is it just fine/ Or is it my fault/ Is it my lack" -Shes trying to fit into the mold to commit but she cant quite figure out how to do it. Shes willing to try but its hard and she wondering if its her lack of emotion or if its someone elses fault. As well as whether or not he will still accept her with her flaws.
"I don't understand about/ The weather outside/ Or the harmony in a tune/ Or why somebody lies" -Maybe she's been hurt in the past and now she's looking back on the lies she's been told. She's trying to figure out whether or not she wants to be vulnerable again with someone new.
"There's solace a bit for submitting/ To the fitfully cryptically true'' - She's saying that there's comfort in simply submitting to what's unfortunately true, which is the evolution of the relationship. And that maybe she should let herself just get swept away and 'go with the flow.'
"What's happened has happened/ What's coming is already on its way/ With a role for me to play" -This is pretty straightforward. Everything is happening whether she likes it or not. She already has a role to play in this and she now has to make a decision about whether or not she wants to accept that role.
"I don't understand/ I'll never understand/ But I'm trying to understand/ There's nothing else I can do" -Again she's trying to make it work. She wants to make it work but there's nothing else she can do but try.
I suck at doing things like this but thats just my interpretation in really shitty words.