This song is def a twin to "Unfair" (a song she has been quoted as saying is about falling in love with someone who is already in a relationship) so it is presumably about the same person. Given the references to buying an apartment and not being able to see her love interest "after tonight," it's most likely that she's moving away and she'll "wait a day to break the bad news" (i.e. notifying him that she's leaving once she's already gone).
And, of course, the fact that she sees in him a fellow "idealist" and "dreamer" (terms commonly given to people with the INFP personality on the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)) portends that she'll always be left wondering if they would've been perfect together.
All trees are oaks
All birds are blue
In the mountains of a magnet
Are the mountains of you
I'm proud of my genius just like a painter
And dumb like a poet I think
I can just say it from the throats of our wrists
With full sets of teeth
Vanilla almond teeth
From vanilla almond tea spent afternoons measuring time in spoons
A southern run for a late longing to drink
What's 80 miles in canada or 18 years in the mountains
Where all trees are oaks and all birds are blue, ach' do
I thought everyone was you
Where forget-me-nots and marigolds and other things
That don't get old
Don't get old between one June and September
You're all I remember
But I'm a lantern, my head a moon
I married a room where I'll at least keep my hands in order
And what about the air, lying awake.
All birds are blue
In the mountains of a magnet
Are the mountains of you
I'm proud of my genius just like a painter
And dumb like a poet I think
I can just say it from the throats of our wrists
With full sets of teeth
Vanilla almond teeth
From vanilla almond tea spent afternoons measuring time in spoons
A southern run for a late longing to drink
What's 80 miles in canada or 18 years in the mountains
Where all trees are oaks and all birds are blue, ach' do
I thought everyone was you
Where forget-me-nots and marigolds and other things
That don't get old
Don't get old between one June and September
You're all I remember
But I'm a lantern, my head a moon
I married a room where I'll at least keep my hands in order
And what about the air, lying awake.
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
how clever - a song full of allusions to Sylvia Plath's "Daddy". how they work within the context of a love song escapes me, though - the poem is about a woman with an Electra complex and an explicit desire to commit symbolic patricide in order to lift the oppressive legacy of her father from her shoulders. only Davey could get away with something like that, I suppose.
halo ape..if u read this..im in NO way at all trying to contradict what you said i just really dont understand how Sylvia Plath's poem, Daddy relates to this song. You seem very intellectual, and im not very smart so if you could explain how they compare, it would be great. Thanks
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strange no one mentioned the obvious shout out to T.S. Eliot's Prufrock with the line... "measuring time in spoons". That's right out of the Love Song... Davey we miss you. This song is wonderful. I makes me want to fall in love. The chorus just drives me nuts.
the line "from one june to september you're all i remember" kind of reminds me of a summer crush...
Yeah I read the Plath poem as well and there are definite allusions to the words from the poem in a lot of the songs. I had no idea to what any of it meant until I read the poem, yet now the songs are even more confusing. Still my favorite promise ring song though
i had always noticed the 'daddy' allusions in this song [i.e. 'ach, du.' and 'i thought everyone was you.' = 'i thought every german was you.'], but i hadn't noticed the allusion in 'a broken tenor' until you pointed that out. tpr is my favorite band, but i definitely agree that the newer stuff lacks lyrically.
I always used to think i was wrong singing vanilla almond tea. my life has finally been affirmed.
p.s it's not just daddy. the line "throats of our wrists" comes out of another poem of hers, i can't remember the name of it.
just to add to easttexas' p.s.... the poem with Throats of our wrists from by Sylvia Plath is called "Stings" poemhunter.com/poem/stings/