...picky: it's gild without a u, awful with an e, etc., but as for the meaning of the song...
i think it's more about understanding the life around you, and love is used as the ultimate metaphor of search, inquiry, insecurity, etc., and i am secretly hoping that nobody posts with "i think she broke up with him and he's sad" because it doesn't even mean that at face value. honestly, without much concentration placed on each symbol or word, i think the song can be about general life experiences and struggles. and, gild means to cover with gold, and lilies are beautiful flowers....so if we were to analyse it, the reference would be making something beautiful/tender into something economically worthy, solid, etc. i also saw a refernce to 'gilding lilies' but i've forgotten where.
...picky: it's gild without a u, awful with an e, etc., but as for the meaning of the song...
i think it's more about understanding the life around you, and love is used as the ultimate metaphor of search, inquiry, insecurity, etc., and i am secretly hoping that nobody posts with "i think she broke up with him and he's sad" because it doesn't even mean that at face value. honestly, without much concentration placed on each symbol or word, i think the song can be about general life experiences and struggles. and, gild means to cover with gold, and lilies are beautiful flowers....so if we were to analyse it, the reference would be making something beautiful/tender into something economically worthy, solid, etc. i also saw a refernce to 'gilding lilies' but i've forgotten where.
the oo's remind me of muse's "apocalypse please."