| Corinne Bailey Rae – Choux Pastry Heart Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The song's about how rare and messy love it to find. The "one for sorrow, two for joy/three for a girl, four for a boy" is from the poem about magpies (the next few lines are "five for silver, six for gold/seven for a secret never to be told") - so there are direct links to superstition. The idea of trying to find meaning where there might not be any. That's what the song's about. A woman who thinks she might have a future with someone; who sees a different meaning to their experiences to the other half of their romance (again this plays in with "you said I was gamine/but we didn't mean the same thing, I think"). It's heart breaking to have something you really thought was going to happen blow up in front of you - seeing the man you hoped would be yours chased away (I think that rose refers to a Rose - as in, some girl called Rose (but I could be wrong here)). As for the reference to choux-pastry, it's a pastry that is incredibly thin, crumbly and puffed up with air; the way she feels her heart was - ready to break, and filled with air (or false expectations). This is one of my favourite songs. The line "I just want to stay right here.. Until never dawns" is such an honest description of how it feels to have your expectations crushed and yourself humiliated and frustrated. |
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