| Mates of State – Blue and Gold Print Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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From personal experience: this sounds like the perspective of someone who recently left an abusive relationship and is grieving and still in love. “I hung your picture before I knew, next to scenes set in golden hues” This is the idealizing and intense romance that happens in the beginning “I sang instead when other girls only cried I call it grace, I am a mindless child” This is what it feels like to have such a deeply damaged sense of self that you accept abuse as love “He’s treating me right” This is the most obvious lyric to me. Its repetition sounds like someone still so trauma bonded they’ll go miles to convince themselves and others that they’re not being abused, protecting their partner. “Memories of greater days just hang” The greater days are the cycles when their partner was love bombing them and everything was rose-tinted. They’re now beginning the process of unpacking the truth of the relationship. “Look on you say, put together the obvious clues Taught you, skipped (sic) the series of laid out rules” She’s reflecting on all the red flags she either missed or ignored from the beginning, perhaps even referencing what others noticed, but more likely the former. I always thought the past tense ‘skipped’ was correct but it works either way. “Go sing outside as clouds raining spark the night, that’s how we met” The circumstances surrounding their meeting were tumultuous and provided fertile ground for the seeds of abuse to be planted and germinate. Perhaps he initially came as a beacon of light before eventually turned into the lightning that struck her. “We’re just a little bit lost inside our houses We’re just a little unkempt out in the streets” Her world is shattered as is the illusion of their romance. She is picking up the pieces and feels as if she has no real home to seek refuge in. “But I won’t ever pass up a second to tell you replacement’s a myth ‘Cause I know when the kids are all grown we will still have this blue and gold print” My interpretation of the scene set in golden hues is juxtaposed with the mention of blue in the print: I think this represents the contrast between the idyllic love she felt (gold) with the abuse (blue). The imprint is on her forever and she must carry the pain of these memories for the rest of her life. Re replacement: this could either mean she’s still recovering and believes she may never find anyone who can match the intense love she felt at first, or that she’s beginning to move on and that she has no desire to replace her former lover either because she needs to heal or that she never wants to go down that road again. |
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