This is one of my favourites on their new cd. My favourite line is: "How do you do it when I'm overwhelmed by a violet sky?"
I spent a while scratching my head over that line. It evokes so many different readings. I've finally settled on violet meaning something akin to thunderclouds. When a thunderstorm is threatening, the clouds turn almost purple/blackish. So he feels like he's being overwhelmed by something ominous.
Essentially I read this song as an apology of sorts for how things went wrong. He stuffed up and wants her forgiveness, and he's still pining "hanging on her dress like a little boy".
They've had their share of arguments to the point where they "bleed each other from the vein", and he points out that all the arguments do is mar the good times they had together.
He's the one with the problems: "If I ever find a way to stop disintegrating/into pieces that I was". And he notes that all she ever wanted was a 'good man' to treat her right, and not what he ended out being.
Basically it's a song that lets him come to terms with how things went wrong in a relationship. He regrets it all, perhaps not then, but in hindsight, he realises what he's lost: "when we kissed, and only now do I feel your mouth, like an ache you never knew, and it was right in front of you".
And no matter how hard she tried to be everything for him and her love ilke "sweet summer oil" he recoiled from it all. He hid from her love, and essentially pushed her away.
I just love the imagery in this song, and the depth and emotion in the lyrics.
This is one of my favourites on their new cd. My favourite line is: "How do you do it when I'm overwhelmed by a violet sky?"
I spent a while scratching my head over that line. It evokes so many different readings. I've finally settled on violet meaning something akin to thunderclouds. When a thunderstorm is threatening, the clouds turn almost purple/blackish. So he feels like he's being overwhelmed by something ominous.
Essentially I read this song as an apology of sorts for how things went wrong. He stuffed up and wants her forgiveness, and he's still pining "hanging on her dress like a little boy".
They've had their share of arguments to the point where they "bleed each other from the vein", and he points out that all the arguments do is mar the good times they had together.
He's the one with the problems: "If I ever find a way to stop disintegrating/into pieces that I was". And he notes that all she ever wanted was a 'good man' to treat her right, and not what he ended out being.
Basically it's a song that lets him come to terms with how things went wrong in a relationship. He regrets it all, perhaps not then, but in hindsight, he realises what he's lost: "when we kissed, and only now do I feel your mouth, like an ache you never knew, and it was right in front of you".
And no matter how hard she tried to be everything for him and her love ilke "sweet summer oil" he recoiled from it all. He hid from her love, and essentially pushed her away.
I just love the imagery in this song, and the depth and emotion in the lyrics.