Heat is a heavy head
Keeps me in my bed
Push aside the pillow
The whole room just turned yellow

Three in the afternoon
We still haven't moved
Siren sighs echo
A pulse through our window

I don't mind, I don't mind
This wasted, shaded daylight

I don't mind, I don't mind
This wasted, shaded daylight

Pull in the body to twist
The thighs, the heels, the hips
Constellation markings
Across your body, drawings

Telephone rings
But we'll just let it sing
Hide out 'till tomorrow
I crawl into your shadow

I don't mind, I don't mind
This wasted, shaded daylight

In the way your hand hits the wave
In between the dreamer and the breath
Long beside the bitter of the skin
Today won't know when to begin



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    My Interpretation

    Wow, I feel like I took this way differently and in a wrong way since everyone else saw this as a very romantic love story...

    I honestly thought it was a song about depression. About hiding away in your bed, not minding that you are wasting daylight. All you want to do is sleep and get away.

    "Pull in the body to twist The thighs, the heels, the hips Constellation markings Across your body, drawings"

    I took this as the person "Cutting" themselves. As the constellation markings were scars or "drawings" of her self harm.

    I don't know.

    I feel so dark now.

    idonttmindon December 12, 2012   Link

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