Spring Haze

to me this song communicates how it feels to be suffocated by your own confusion and current of emotion. you don't know where you're going with it, if you're even going anywhere, or just circling the indistinct object of your confusion. the feeling seems too big to not lead to anywhere--hence the line, "certain these clouds go somewhere." the song portrays an unhealthy but addictive emotion of uncertainty and inexplicable passion. and it seems like any day it will be the end of you (in whichever way you choose to interpret that.) it could be about the unexpressed connection you feel to another person who does not recognize it ("and it bleeds into where you resist"), one of the most intense and heartrending experiences possible. and the only way to ever overcome this unnameable mass of emotion and passion is to dive deep into it, to show that not only are you unafraid to surround yourself with it, but that you are brave enough to immerse yourself in it with the notion that you may very well drown if you breathe in too deeply.

i tried to kill myself to this song, a long time ago.

Perfection. So subtle and intense. Probably my favourite one from Venus and totally underrated. One of the most beautiful Tori lyrics and amazing melody. Stunningly great.

I was always under the impression that this song was about Robert Kennedy's plane crash.

Tori has always had an interest in the Kennedys, Jackie especially, and this song seems to pretty closely follow the events and conditions that led to Robert Kemnedy's tragic plane crash into the Atlantic.

He was flying a single engine Cessna, which is explicitly mentioned in the song. All major authorities agree that the extremely heavy "haze" from that evening made visibility nearly impossible, and most likely directly caused the crash.

The plane went down very late on a Saturday night, hence Tori's speculation that they were lost in the clouds, and "circling," "waiting for Sunday to land." She's imagining that maybe if they'd made it til Sunday morning's light they could have beeb able to see through the haze, and might have been as to land safely.

But unfortunately they could only have just made it into the earliest hour of Sunday, darkness still shrouding the landscape, and because of that they were instead "waiting on Sunday to drown."

I always heard "Someday". Waiting for "someday" to land, end, drown. Stop circling in the clouds and land to begin.

As most Tori followers, I face a darkness in my life that Tori expresses. I do very well in school, almost with no difficulty, but before each week, I am faced with crippling anxiety, just wondering if I will be able to get through my busy week at all. When I think logically, I know that I will pull through and do well like I do every week without difficulty. So I try to tell myself not to listen to my anxiety. But it's there. It's as if Sunday is the worst day of the week. The anxiety that accumulates in that day outweighs the actual events I am dreading on the weekdays. So even though, every Sunday, I know it is just a "spring haze," I spend my time waiting , waiting , ... "waiting for Sunday to drown."

It,to me, sounds like its basis is unrequited love. Becoming so emotionally attached to another person who does not reciprocate causes for self examination and transformation. Being unsure of your future and looking into the past. Being in the present it feeling daunting. Realizing that self-preservation is top priority in the sense of loving one's self enough to realize that you must go- flung out into the sky like billowing clouds and just hoping that you and they end up someone where meaningful and balanced.

this song is about sex and wanting to have sex, but having to wait til sunday.. that's all i have to say really. i love it. "drown" and "land" are sexual terms.