Passing Afternoon Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Reciprocity92 

Cover art for Passing Afternoon lyrics by Iron & Wine

This song is, in my opinion, written from the perpsective of a man who lost his wife to another man. The author and said woman are together during the summer when it was warm and her "Bougainvillea blooms". Then she left him and her children in the autumn, which "blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made." This line comes from the popular phrase "you made your bed, now you have to sleep in it." The "perfect bed she made" was the love the author and woman used to have, but autumn messed it up. The woman has chosen to be with the new man, but the author finds closure in the fact that she still thinks of him while ignoring the outside world. "Only now I do believe Sometimes, with the window closed, she'll sit and think of me" The last line of the song means that she chose to be with the new man only because she was afraid to be alone.

all very thoughtful and clever, i will explain all my ideas and back them up with lyrics. but unfortunately i believe the song is about a man who was married and had a family and children, and now she has become a part in another mans life. the children are simply enjoying life laying out and watching the clouds roll by, playing in the leaves and stirring the bougainvillea seeds not knowing that their father is over seas. what suggests that she has remarried is, "summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon And she chose a yard to...