I can't believe I have such a different take on this whole song then any comments I've seen here, full on reason why I made an account ha.
I see the song completely as a boy being taught at a young age that girls don't like nice guys and to just tell them what they want. I think he talks about how he did this, but looks back and regrets not being true, and not getting a girl who was smarter and had more substance.
He sings (from my view) about how now he's stuck with the girl who believed him. A shallow girl who doesn't even notice how he's fooled her, and doesn't get it that he doesn't love her.
"Your lids are your best canvas, I can only imagine what you're painting" -refers to how distorted her view of their relationship is and how she's seeing this as a beautiful romance and thinks the things he says are unique to her and that he means them, but really he's just writing songs for his career. Their not about her, because she's nothing special.
"You want to be dressed in poetry, but imagery doesn't fit. You want resizing, but darling dear, get a grip." -She should get a grip and realize that she's means little, to nothing, to him. She's just a simple girl that he got by using pretty words. Nothing special.
The whole song to me means that you shouldn't always take songs seriously, because sometimes, it's just pretty words to make girls feel good. A whole marketing scheme to make shallow women think that boys will think these beautiful things about them, when really all they are is literally, lyrical lies, made up in someone's mind. Nothing more.
It may be a sad take on the song, but I don't know. I thought this was what the song meant every time I listened over the past few years, as it's a long standing favorite of mine. Reading the other comments though, I'm baffled at how I see it so differently to other people.
I can't believe I have such a different take on this whole song then any comments I've seen here, full on reason why I made an account ha.
I see the song completely as a boy being taught at a young age that girls don't like nice guys and to just tell them what they want. I think he talks about how he did this, but looks back and regrets not being true, and not getting a girl who was smarter and had more substance.
He sings (from my view) about how now he's stuck with the girl who believed him. A shallow girl who doesn't even notice how he's fooled her, and doesn't get it that he doesn't love her.
"Your lids are your best canvas, I can only imagine what you're painting" -refers to how distorted her view of their relationship is and how she's seeing this as a beautiful romance and thinks the things he says are unique to her and that he means them, but really he's just writing songs for his career. Their not about her, because she's nothing special.
"You want to be dressed in poetry, but imagery doesn't fit. You want resizing, but darling dear, get a grip." -She should get a grip and realize that she's means little, to nothing, to him. She's just a simple girl that he got by using pretty words. Nothing special.
The whole song to me means that you shouldn't always take songs seriously, because sometimes, it's just pretty words to make girls feel good. A whole marketing scheme to make shallow women think that boys will think these beautiful things about them, when really all they are is literally, lyrical lies, made up in someone's mind. Nothing more.
It may be a sad take on the song, but I don't know. I thought this was what the song meant every time I listened over the past few years, as it's a long standing favorite of mine. Reading the other comments though, I'm baffled at how I see it so differently to other people.