i suppose to me this song is about finding someone in a foreign place. i like to take the second stanza literally, in the fact that she does not know how to say anything except for 'hello' and 'thank you very much' (bonjour? merci beaucoup? you never know.)
and she is reminiscing about finding this, in the last verses, amid all the phoniness of everything else. she's talking about a diamond in the rough, i guess. and a personalized diamond, one that not other would think of as a 'picnic', or a 'prize'.
I don't see any betrayal either. In fact, he (or she) took her to an island in that sea of store bought dreams, meaning that he offered something other than the cliched, fake dreams that were available from others.
I don't see any betrayal either. In fact, he (or she) took her to an island in that sea of store bought dreams, meaning that he offered something other than the cliched, fake dreams that were available from others.
In the early verses, before he found her, I see despair and that she was tired of her life (probably in a foreign country, but that could be interpreted more broadly). He changed that, and there's nothing that implies to me that the relationship ended badly or in betrayal. Maybe it did, but she doesn't seem bitter at all, and...
In the early verses, before he found her, I see despair and that she was tired of her life (probably in a foreign country, but that could be interpreted more broadly). He changed that, and there's nothing that implies to me that the relationship ended badly or in betrayal. Maybe it did, but she doesn't seem bitter at all, and she knows how to sound bitter if she wants to. I think she has nothing but fond memories of him (or, again, her).
i suppose to me this song is about finding someone in a foreign place. i like to take the second stanza literally, in the fact that she does not know how to say anything except for 'hello' and 'thank you very much' (bonjour? merci beaucoup? you never know.)
and she is reminiscing about finding this, in the last verses, amid all the phoniness of everything else. she's talking about a diamond in the rough, i guess. and a personalized diamond, one that not other would think of as a 'picnic', or a 'prize'.
it's such a beautiful song though.
I don't see any betrayal either. In fact, he (or she) took her to an island in that sea of store bought dreams, meaning that he offered something other than the cliched, fake dreams that were available from others.
I don't see any betrayal either. In fact, he (or she) took her to an island in that sea of store bought dreams, meaning that he offered something other than the cliched, fake dreams that were available from others.
In the early verses, before he found her, I see despair and that she was tired of her life (probably in a foreign country, but that could be interpreted more broadly). He changed that, and there's nothing that implies to me that the relationship ended badly or in betrayal. Maybe it did, but she doesn't seem bitter at all, and...
In the early verses, before he found her, I see despair and that she was tired of her life (probably in a foreign country, but that could be interpreted more broadly). He changed that, and there's nothing that implies to me that the relationship ended badly or in betrayal. Maybe it did, but she doesn't seem bitter at all, and she knows how to sound bitter if she wants to. I think she has nothing but fond memories of him (or, again, her).
I did that wrong. I wasn't replying to feversxxmirrors. Just a general post.
I did that wrong. I wasn't replying to feversxxmirrors. Just a general post.