My interpretation is not the right one per se, but it means something to me. I kissed a girl for the first time in the past couple weeks. I will not see her for over a month because we will both be out of town for Christmas break. It is impossible for me to forget her, even though I am torturing myself until then. I feel such strong despair because she has been in love before, and there is no way I can stack up to that.
Anyway, this song so strongly reminded me of her because she has a tattoo of an anchor on her arm. The first paragraph spoke directly to this inadequacy I felt compared to her first love:
"And always there is a picture of you and her
Coming home happy from a vacation on the seas
And you looked like a sailor
With a tattoo of an anchor on your arm
Your hair greased back
Face weathered by places and days I'd never seen"
My interpretation is not the right one per se, but it means something to me. I kissed a girl for the first time in the past couple weeks. I will not see her for over a month because we will both be out of town for Christmas break. It is impossible for me to forget her, even though I am torturing myself until then. I feel such strong despair because she has been in love before, and there is no way I can stack up to that.
Anyway, this song so strongly reminded me of her because she has a tattoo of an anchor on her arm. The first paragraph spoke directly to this inadequacy I felt compared to her first love:
"And always there is a picture of you and her Coming home happy from a vacation on the seas And you looked like a sailor With a tattoo of an anchor on your arm Your hair greased back Face weathered by places and days I'd never seen"