Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Wind out of Oklahoma this morning smelled like blood and smoke
And the crows discuss their future in the branches of their Louisiana live oak
The limbs are strong and heavy and its leaves are all aglow
And the branches brush the upper air but the roots reach down to where the bad people go
And what will I do with you?
Pink and blue
True gold
Nine days old
Nice new clothes on you and an old cardboard produce box for a cradle
I mashed some bananas in a coffee cup and I fed you there at the kitchen table
Crows outside complaining about the finer points of local politics
Strange wind all full of new smells, rust and fur and reception sticks
And what will I do with you?
Pink and blue
True gold
Nine days old
And the crows discuss their future in the branches of their Louisiana live oak
The limbs are strong and heavy and its leaves are all aglow
And the branches brush the upper air but the roots reach down to where the bad people go
And what will I do with you?
Pink and blue
True gold
Nine days old
Nice new clothes on you and an old cardboard produce box for a cradle
I mashed some bananas in a coffee cup and I fed you there at the kitchen table
Crows outside complaining about the finer points of local politics
Strange wind all full of new smells, rust and fur and reception sticks
And what will I do with you?
Pink and blue
True gold
Nine days old
Lyrics submitted by fuckedupdog, edited by Xamnam, recognizer, Eccentricity
Pink and Blue Lyrics as written by John Darnielle
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I think a poetic features is worth further notice here. There's a kind of multistable ambiguity in the crow lines that I think shows real genius in songwriting. Here in the second verse:
"crows outside complaining about the finer points of local politics"
we have an observation about the background environment from the narrator. But, is his observation about crows or (say) old men? Are crows making noises back and forth that he imagines to be a discussion of local politics? Or are their people out there talking about local politics, and he imagines them to be crows? Of course either of these is possible, and I think the song is made richer for drawing your ear to the ambiguity in the stream of consciousness description.