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Newspaper Gown Lyrics
You can come over whenever you want
You can get dressed up and I'll show you off
We could go dancing or hang around town
Whatever you want in your newspaper gown
Our friends think we're lovers
Or so I have heard
They ask for confessions
I say not a word
We let them keep guessing
Till they figure us out
Our made up wedding in your newspaper gown
We are placing our bets
We are making the call
We are going all in
We cannot win at all
My wheels they keep spinning
I am turned upside down
And I'll be the headlines in the newspaper gown
What if I told you what your friends think is true
At the end of my day all I want is you
Would it destroy you
Would you not want me around
Am I a new pair of scissors for your newspaper gown
So we take our chances
And we risk it all
I'm willing to let go
But not willing to fall
We can be married tonight
The news will astound
Announcements made from your newspaper gown
You can get dressed up and I'll show you off
We could go dancing or hang around town
Whatever you want in your newspaper gown
Or so I have heard
They ask for confessions
I say not a word
Till they figure us out
Our made up wedding in your newspaper gown
We are making the call
We are going all in
We cannot win at all
I am turned upside down
And I'll be the headlines in the newspaper gown
At the end of my day all I want is you
Would it destroy you
Would you not want me around
Am I a new pair of scissors for your newspaper gown
And we risk it all
I'm willing to let go
But not willing to fall
The news will astound
Announcements made from your newspaper gown
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I think this song is about a couple who are casually dating. The've been casually dating long enough that people think it is not casual.
The partner singing the song actually does want more and is telling the receiver of this.
Etc.
Dudes, I’m pretty, kinda sure he’s talking to his self. He’s courting and coming to terms with his self and all the talents and ambitions and achievements that embodies. He loves himself deeply, but he knows that it all started off so slowly. It took intention and focus and time. And beyond that he was the inheriter of an pretty solid head-start (after all, he is a white male). It’s truly beautiful to behold and feel, but in the end he could, on a dime, destroy it all with self doubt.
I could easily point to this exact arc as the main reason I love this guy’s music. He manages to string together an insight that so perfectly describes the current state of the human condition: seeing the true, real self just off in the distance, loving that vision of its own possibility, but being intrinsically separated from it by layers of irony and self-awareness and doubt. He’s casting the mold for the millennial Sisyphus, the lets-come-to-terms-and-really-look-at-this-whole-existence-thing carrots on sticks. Those existential carrots being advancing in your job (in the tech scene no doubt), moving forward to the next step with your partner, and self acceptance, and self-realized success, etc etc.