This is a song about boundaries and growing beyond an unhealthy relationship. It's quietly defiant, basically with her saying "This is me, and that is you; you don't even understand who I am, much less get to define me."
"You'll never see the courage I know
Its colors' richness won't appear within your view
I'll never glow - the way that you glow
Your presence dominates the judgments made on you"
It's like she's saying that the other person will never get her perspective, and that the other person will be judged based on who they are, not based on her. Someone's enmeshed with her and she has to get the other person to recognize that they are not the same.
Then she talks about growing beyond her past perspective, but she's not yet brave enough to say what she sees yet - she's too "proud" to talk about it with this person who has hurt her, and who doesn't listen or understand well enough to even know who she is. They think they understand her motives, her personhood, but she knows that they won't, because they don't listen, and they can't be trusted, apparently because they have failed her before.
You'll say you understand, but You don't understand
You'll say you'd never give up seeing eye to eye
But never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie
I think the second verse is a repeat of the same idea - you can touch my skin, but you will never be able to understand or capture who I am, and I will hide it from you because you aren't worthy kind of a deal. (as in, My fever burns me deeper than I'll ever show - to you."
And the third verse is her reiterating the idea in the first two verses, and also saying look, you don't get it, you aren't going to get it, and I don't need your false concern in my life, and I never will. Pretty clear boundaries spoken in a very gentle way - love this song.
This is a song about boundaries and growing beyond an unhealthy relationship. It's quietly defiant, basically with her saying "This is me, and that is you; you don't even understand who I am, much less get to define me."
"You'll never see the courage I know Its colors' richness won't appear within your view I'll never glow - the way that you glow Your presence dominates the judgments made on you"
It's like she's saying that the other person will never get her perspective, and that the other person will be judged based on who they are, not based on her. Someone's enmeshed with her and she has to get the other person to recognize that they are not the same.
Then she talks about growing beyond her past perspective, but she's not yet brave enough to say what she sees yet - she's too "proud" to talk about it with this person who has hurt her, and who doesn't listen or understand well enough to even know who she is. They think they understand her motives, her personhood, but she knows that they won't, because they don't listen, and they can't be trusted, apparently because they have failed her before.
You'll say you understand, but You don't understand You'll say you'd never give up seeing eye to eye But never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie
I think the second verse is a repeat of the same idea - you can touch my skin, but you will never be able to understand or capture who I am, and I will hide it from you because you aren't worthy kind of a deal. (as in, My fever burns me deeper than I'll ever show - to you."
And the third verse is her reiterating the idea in the first two verses, and also saying look, you don't get it, you aren't going to get it, and I don't need your false concern in my life, and I never will. Pretty clear boundaries spoken in a very gentle way - love this song.