Come on, let's think about it: lemon and limes are both citrus fruits, which combine the symbolic connotations of fruit with pleasure and temptation with an acidic and bitter quality. French doors resemble a vagina, and are a known slang term for a vagina. Dogs, howling: more sexual imagery. Both verses involve telling a woman to go do something, basically go get lost for a while. The chorus has the narrator saying, "There are so many ways. We can take our time," while we assume the women answer, "I've got so many ways to waste our time," or the less fantastic line, "...ways to enjoy the ride." Basically, the narrator's a reluctant lover, and the women are seducing him. Either that, or the narrator's waiting to get laid, but getting everything else from women intent on wasting his time. I like this song, but man, thinking about the lyrics nearly ruined it for me.
Come on, let's think about it: lemon and limes are both citrus fruits, which combine the symbolic connotations of fruit with pleasure and temptation with an acidic and bitter quality. French doors resemble a vagina, and are a known slang term for a vagina. Dogs, howling: more sexual imagery. Both verses involve telling a woman to go do something, basically go get lost for a while. The chorus has the narrator saying, "There are so many ways. We can take our time," while we assume the women answer, "I've got so many ways to waste our time," or the less fantastic line, "...ways to enjoy the ride." Basically, the narrator's a reluctant lover, and the women are seducing him. Either that, or the narrator's waiting to get laid, but getting everything else from women intent on wasting his time. I like this song, but man, thinking about the lyrics nearly ruined it for me.