I think this is about a woman who is having a relationship with someone else who doesn't want necessarily want anything from her: "I'm a wife in watercolors, I can wash away." But she feels guilty for letting herself pretend that it means anything "What seventeen cold showers couldn't wash away" and "Save me from what I want."
Any takers?
I think this is about a woman who is having a relationship with someone else who doesn't want necessarily want anything from her: "I'm a wife in watercolors, I can wash away." But she feels guilty for letting herself pretend that it means anything "What seventeen cold showers couldn't wash away" and "Save me from what I want."
Any takers?
I like the play on words in the "wash away" pre-chorus part.
I like the play on words in the "wash away" pre-chorus part.
Going with the cheating angle, it seems this woman this is in a very stifling and repressed marriage. The keys rattle her husband away because he doesn't want to rock the boat by confronting her when she leaves for her late-night trysts (this is also a double entendre with the word "awake").
Going with the cheating angle, it seems this woman this is in a very stifling and repressed marriage. The keys rattle her husband away because he doesn't want to rock the boat by confronting her when she leaves for her late-night trysts (this is also a double entendre with the word "awake").
She's a wife in watercolors in that she can disguise the emotions she shows on the surface--not let on her feelings about the affair to her husband, just as she doesn't let...
She's a wife in watercolors in that she can disguise the emotions she shows on the surface--not let on her feelings about the affair to her husband, just as she doesn't let on her dissatisfaction about their relationship to him.
But, though she can wash away her surface emotions (watercolors), she can't wash away her deeper urges even with seventeen cold showers and, thus, the affair.
I think it's about a woman cheating on her husband, even though she knows that it's wrong.
I think this is about a woman who is having a relationship with someone else who doesn't want necessarily want anything from her: "I'm a wife in watercolors, I can wash away." But she feels guilty for letting herself pretend that it means anything "What seventeen cold showers couldn't wash away" and "Save me from what I want." Any takers?
I think this is about a woman who is having a relationship with someone else who doesn't want necessarily want anything from her: "I'm a wife in watercolors, I can wash away." But she feels guilty for letting herself pretend that it means anything "What seventeen cold showers couldn't wash away" and "Save me from what I want." Any takers?
I like the play on words in the "wash away" pre-chorus part.
I like the play on words in the "wash away" pre-chorus part.
Going with the cheating angle, it seems this woman this is in a very stifling and repressed marriage. The keys rattle her husband away because he doesn't want to rock the boat by confronting her when she leaves for her late-night trysts (this is also a double entendre with the word "awake").
Going with the cheating angle, it seems this woman this is in a very stifling and repressed marriage. The keys rattle her husband away because he doesn't want to rock the boat by confronting her when she leaves for her late-night trysts (this is also a double entendre with the word "awake").
She's a wife in watercolors in that she can disguise the emotions she shows on the surface--not let on her feelings about the affair to her husband, just as she doesn't let...
She's a wife in watercolors in that she can disguise the emotions she shows on the surface--not let on her feelings about the affair to her husband, just as she doesn't let on her dissatisfaction about their relationship to him.
But, though she can wash away her surface emotions (watercolors), she can't wash away her deeper urges even with seventeen cold showers and, thus, the affair.
you're absolutely right, to me this song is very obvious, theres really np hidden meaning... well to people like us.
you're absolutely right, to me this song is very obvious, theres really np hidden meaning... well to people like us.