" Dark lenses tint the windows that are under my eyelids
To hide from the light like I'm stuck in a fire pit"
He opens the song in reference to his glasses; they're his blanket from the hell he sees. A good portion of this verse is a detail of what it is he hides from, both internally and externally. As it were, he's describing a hell on earth, the death of his innocence and inner sense...the glasses sheild him from the external, while doubling a sheild to protect those outside from the internal.
The chorus is typical of Sage's wordplay, where the addition of subtraction of a word can change the entire meaning of a phrase he writes.
Hell, it's Good Fashion...this refers to his inability to explain why he feels the need to protect himself, which is referenced in the second verse "that can never make the final reel."
He explains the need for his sunglasses in the repeat of the stanza, however, when he responds with "hell."
Essentially, the sunglasses are his sheild from hell, but "good fashion" is easier for those who speaks with to stomach.
" Dark lenses tint the windows that are under my eyelids To hide from the light like I'm stuck in a fire pit"
He opens the song in reference to his glasses; they're his blanket from the hell he sees. A good portion of this verse is a detail of what it is he hides from, both internally and externally. As it were, he's describing a hell on earth, the death of his innocence and inner sense...the glasses sheild him from the external, while doubling a sheild to protect those outside from the internal.
The chorus is typical of Sage's wordplay, where the addition of subtraction of a word can change the entire meaning of a phrase he writes.
Hell, it's Good Fashion...this refers to his inability to explain why he feels the need to protect himself, which is referenced in the second verse "that can never make the final reel."
He explains the need for his sunglasses in the repeat of the stanza, however, when he responds with "hell."
Essentially, the sunglasses are his sheild from hell, but "good fashion" is easier for those who speaks with to stomach.