I took it to be about these 2 people (guy and girl) who are separate, but are somehow connected. Either via a forum or something.
The girl's posting all the time, the guy's lying there all the time. and they're just spending their lives thinking alone.
and at the risk of over-interpreting... I've always thought the lines "crayon past line, stay after school" were very meaningful. I imagine a kid who colors outside the lines in school and is reprimanded for it, and forced to color inside the lines--and as a result he becomes like everyone else and is conformed to the rest of the kids who "color in the lines." But when we are older, those who "color outside the lines" are admired and become more significant because they are not like everyone else. I think it touches on that contradiction where we raise our kids to be the same, but then when they become adults we expect them to be different and better--we should have just let them color outside the lines and be themselves to begin with.
I think that ties in to the guy and girl in the beginning still... as if they are the two kids who colored outside the lines and were forced to conform, and now because of that they don't really fit in with the rest of society and are similar in that they are different than everyone else but have never been allowed to be because it wasn't seen as the "right way" to do it.
I always like the vibe I get from this song.
I took it to be about these 2 people (guy and girl) who are separate, but are somehow connected. Either via a forum or something.
The girl's posting all the time, the guy's lying there all the time. and they're just spending their lives thinking alone.
and at the risk of over-interpreting... I've always thought the lines "crayon past line, stay after school" were very meaningful. I imagine a kid who colors outside the lines in school and is reprimanded for it, and forced to color inside the lines--and as a result he becomes like everyone else and is conformed to the rest of the kids who "color in the lines." But when we are older, those who "color outside the lines" are admired and become more significant because they are not like everyone else. I think it touches on that contradiction where we raise our kids to be the same, but then when they become adults we expect them to be different and better--we should have just let them color outside the lines and be themselves to begin with.
I think that ties in to the guy and girl in the beginning still... as if they are the two kids who colored outside the lines and were forced to conform, and now because of that they don't really fit in with the rest of society and are similar in that they are different than everyone else but have never been allowed to be because it wasn't seen as the "right way" to do it.