i think this song - as others have said - is about an absent love who won't give the needed assurance of love and commitment.
someone asked about the 'birds wing on the window' line - and i think this is a reference to what happens when a bird flies into the window and some form of dust comes off its feathers and leaves a beutiful imprint on the glass. he's saying the girl's shape reminds him of the ghostly imprint of something once there, now gone.
he's saying he needs her as much as children need love - of god or a parent. but he doesn't have that assurance - which is why he wants to ask her what she really honestly thinks (honest words you can't afford to say). I actually like to think he's saying "assurance" instead of "Sure as" but maybe it's a play on the ambiguity of the sounds of those phrases.
i think this song - as others have said - is about an absent love who won't give the needed assurance of love and commitment.
someone asked about the 'birds wing on the window' line - and i think this is a reference to what happens when a bird flies into the window and some form of dust comes off its feathers and leaves a beutiful imprint on the glass. he's saying the girl's shape reminds him of the ghostly imprint of something once there, now gone.
he's saying he needs her as much as children need love - of god or a parent. but he doesn't have that assurance - which is why he wants to ask her what she really honestly thinks (honest words you can't afford to say). I actually like to think he's saying "assurance" instead of "Sure as" but maybe it's a play on the ambiguity of the sounds of those phrases.
what do we think "I want your flowers" implies?