| The National – Green Gloves Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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On its own, to me, this song sounds like it’s about a friendship group he's drifted away from but they've all stayed close, while he's just been off on his own. "Take another sip of them, it floats around and takes me over like a little drop of ink in a glass of water" To me this part sounds like only needing to be back in their company for the tiniest while and everything about them creeps back into his life, not in a bad way. And yeah, drinking with them again, realising you've missed them, still loving them, having "arms for them" The green gloves bit i think just suggests a detatchment though, that strange feeling when you start seeing people again who you used to be so close to, but you haven’t even been a part of thier life for so long. So the closeness you once shared is still lurking there but all your talking when you start seeing each other lacks a depth it used to have. Getting into someones bed suggests so much intimacy, but with gloves on it’s more clinical, so yeah he’s doing everything he used to with them, but it doesn’t have that same depth anymore. At any rate my favourite part is the Cinderella bit, that slow, foggy, drunken detatchment to the world you get and you think no one else can possibly ever feel like this and surely it’s a feeling only you know..? And yeah the last verse is about re-establishing what you once shared. I dunno, that was not so well explained, and over-explained in places also. But I certainly relate to it like that though. You may have guessed I love this song a lot hey. |
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