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”
That boy take me away into the night
Out of the hum of the street lights and into a forest
I'll do whatever you say to me in the dark
Scared I'll be torn apart by a wolf in mask
Of a familiar name on a birthday card
Blow out all the candles
Blow out all the candles
"You're too old to be so shy"
He says to me so I stay the night
Just a young heart confusing my mind
But we're both in silence
Wide-eyed, both in silence
Wide-eyed, like we're in a crime scene
Well, I have brittle bones it seems
I bite my tongue and I torch my dreams
Have a little voice to speak with
And a mind of thoughts and secrecy
Things cannot be reversed
We learn from the times that we are cursed
Things cannot be reversed
Learn from the ones we fear the worst
And learn from the ones we hate the most how to
Blow out all the candles
Blow out all the candles
"You're too old to be so shy"
He says to me so I stay the night
Just a young heart confusing my mind
But we're both in silence
Wide-eyed, both in silence
Wide-eyed
'Cause we both know
I'll never be your lover
I only bring the heat
Company under cover
Filling space in your sheets
Well, I'll never be a lover
I only bring the heat
Company under cover
Filling space in your sheets
In your sheets
So, please just blow out all the candles
Blow out all the candles
"You're too old to be so shy,"
He says to me so I stay the night
It's just a young heart confusing my mind
But we're both in silence
Wide-eyed, both in silence
Wide-eyed, like we're in a crime scene
Out of the hum of the street lights and into a forest
I'll do whatever you say to me in the dark
Scared I'll be torn apart by a wolf in mask
Of a familiar name on a birthday card
Blow out all the candles
Blow out all the candles
"You're too old to be so shy"
He says to me so I stay the night
Just a young heart confusing my mind
But we're both in silence
Wide-eyed, both in silence
Wide-eyed, like we're in a crime scene
Well, I have brittle bones it seems
I bite my tongue and I torch my dreams
Have a little voice to speak with
And a mind of thoughts and secrecy
Things cannot be reversed
We learn from the times that we are cursed
Things cannot be reversed
Learn from the ones we fear the worst
And learn from the ones we hate the most how to
Blow out all the candles
Blow out all the candles
"You're too old to be so shy"
He says to me so I stay the night
Just a young heart confusing my mind
But we're both in silence
Wide-eyed, both in silence
Wide-eyed
'Cause we both know
I'll never be your lover
I only bring the heat
Company under cover
Filling space in your sheets
Well, I'll never be a lover
I only bring the heat
Company under cover
Filling space in your sheets
In your sheets
So, please just blow out all the candles
Blow out all the candles
"You're too old to be so shy,"
He says to me so I stay the night
It's just a young heart confusing my mind
But we're both in silence
Wide-eyed, both in silence
Wide-eyed, like we're in a crime scene
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I believe she is attracted by the boy, and they are already in a relation of friendship “ Scared...Of a familiar name on a birthday card”. I really do not see her as a victim, and strongly believe that what really scares her is her own feelings of desire for the boy.
The verses “Out of the hum of the street lights and into a forest/ I'll do whatever you say to me in the dark/ Scared I'll be torn apart by a wolf in mask” do not refer to any kind of abuse but simply to a change of setting in the subjects mind and environment. "Out of the street lights” figuratively means out of a space enlightened by the reason as opposed to the forest, a wild space that triggers our fears, where the game of seduction may follow different rules; and what is different generally scares us!. In addition, to some extent, we really never know whom we are with, and there is always a margin of trepidation once we have no control on our own desires, above all, when avulsed from society. “Well, I have brittle bones it seems...And a mind of thoughts and secrecy” the brittle bones may refer to both an innate frailty, reinforced by the boy’s words “You're too old to be so shy” and/or to a much older age in comparison to the one of the boy. "A mind of thoughts and secrecy” I bet we all have thoughts we want to keep to ourselves especially when they involve strong feelings of hate, fear, and “love” or sexual attraction towards someone else.
I also strongly believe that she is not forced into anything by the boy because of the verses "He says to me so I stay the night” which denotes a deliberate decision from her side to spend the night with the boy. The verse "It's just a young heart confusing my mind” makes me think of someone whose rationality has just been swept away by the feelings of a strong sexual attraction. Also, the repetition of “we’re both” indicates equality between the two. "But we're both in silence/ Wide-eyed, both in silence”. The "wide-eyed” choose of words makes me think of the act of passion aftermath. When both actors realize that they have been carried away by desire, and they are both startled as in a moment of revelation. It is a really beautiful text song to which almost every woman can relate sooner or later in her life.