I think this song is about how you repeat life's mistakes (getting "lost") over and over, until you take the time to learn from your past. After all, it is your "yesterdays" that bring you to the place you are now in life.
Lissie suggests that her general approach to life is so short-sighted (irony implicit in Lissie's lyric) that she forgets that her own eyes are actually more green than the blue she generally considers them to be.
Lissie confesses that she's always resolving "I won't get lost ever again," but of course, she does, because she hasn't "recorded" (ie fully appreciated and learned from) the reasons why she keeps getting lost. Metaphorically, she's always raking up leaves because she never realizes it would be better to cut down the tree.
Her spontaneous way of life means her thoughts are like a "choir of bees" buzzing around her head, rather than a logical plan of getting from A to B, which is of course why she never gets anywhere ("I'm starting to think that I've been here before").
At the end of the song, Lissie asks God (a female God in her conception) for help in achieving life's "wonder" ("Won't you fill me up with it!?"), and she resolves to "keep records" of her actions, so that she can avoid repeating herself.
This will allow her to stop going in circles, like a record (another intentional pun in Lissie's lyric), and finally move forward to achieve life's wonders. Lovely song.
I think this song is about how you repeat life's mistakes (getting "lost") over and over, until you take the time to learn from your past. After all, it is your "yesterdays" that bring you to the place you are now in life.
Lissie suggests that her general approach to life is so short-sighted (irony implicit in Lissie's lyric) that she forgets that her own eyes are actually more green than the blue she generally considers them to be.
Lissie confesses that she's always resolving "I won't get lost ever again," but of course, she does, because she hasn't "recorded" (ie fully appreciated and learned from) the reasons why she keeps getting lost. Metaphorically, she's always raking up leaves because she never realizes it would be better to cut down the tree.
Her spontaneous way of life means her thoughts are like a "choir of bees" buzzing around her head, rather than a logical plan of getting from A to B, which is of course why she never gets anywhere ("I'm starting to think that I've been here before").
At the end of the song, Lissie asks God (a female God in her conception) for help in achieving life's "wonder" ("Won't you fill me up with it!?"), and she resolves to "keep records" of her actions, so that she can avoid repeating herself.
This will allow her to stop going in circles, like a record (another intentional pun in Lissie's lyric), and finally move forward to achieve life's wonders. Lovely song.