I saw the Gnarls Barkly video of this song and was paying so much attention to the video and it's...uniqueness...that I didn't pay much attention to the lyrics so I looked it up here and saw that it was a cover for the Femmes.
I agree that I think it's about a high school sweetie(who was 15?) that he had been in love with and that they go there seperate ways.
I wasn't quit sure what he meant by when eyes turn blue so i typed it into google to see if I could find anything and an elvis costello song 'when green eyes go blue' popped up so I looked up those lyrics as well. In Elvis' song he talks about everytime he sees this girl he loves her so much that he can't even talk. He goes on to say that even as time goes on, you may learn and gain experince but he'd rather 'squander' all his wits away because 'You brighten up my darkest gaze'. He wonders why the hell they didn't stay together and when the times get rough he still thinks of her to get through it and that he will always feel love for her. I then think the Femmes might have been trying to get across the same message and so put their blue eyed thing in...
The next verse is probably explaining that he can tell that she is unhappy and that she isn't in a very good marriage and that he still would've been better.
I saw the Gnarls Barkly video of this song and was paying so much attention to the video and it's...uniqueness...that I didn't pay much attention to the lyrics so I looked it up here and saw that it was a cover for the Femmes.
I agree that I think it's about a high school sweetie(who was 15?) that he had been in love with and that they go there seperate ways.
I wasn't quit sure what he meant by when eyes turn blue so i typed it into google to see if I could find anything and an elvis costello song 'when green eyes go blue' popped up so I looked up those lyrics as well. In Elvis' song he talks about everytime he sees this girl he loves her so much that he can't even talk. He goes on to say that even as time goes on, you may learn and gain experince but he'd rather 'squander' all his wits away because 'You brighten up my darkest gaze'. He wonders why the hell they didn't stay together and when the times get rough he still thinks of her to get through it and that he will always feel love for her. I then think the Femmes might have been trying to get across the same message and so put their blue eyed thing in...
The next verse is probably explaining that he can tell that she is unhappy and that she isn't in a very good marriage and that he still would've been better.