This song is about a woman: "red lips", "your skin so fair"
It's two women: "my face is drawn with this number 2 pencil"
The song has two opposing emotional moments, and I wonder what exactly St Vincent was thinking of when she wrote them. To the best of my analytic capacities I'm going to say the first moment sounds like she's full of adrenaline or anxiety on meeting this woman (maybe even something darker, the music points that way), whereas in the second part we have the aftermath of that initial feeling and it could be her understanding she's in love or maybe the two of them finally sharing the authenticity in feelings after all that adrenaline etc. Or, else it could be the morning, and she's thinking of what happened during the night (like someone with a hangover thinking about a crazy night for example).
But it's definitely about 2 women. And it's not her only song: think about Chloe in the Afternoon.
This song is about a woman: "red lips", "your skin so fair"
It's two women: "my face is drawn with this number 2 pencil"
The song has two opposing emotional moments, and I wonder what exactly St Vincent was thinking of when she wrote them. To the best of my analytic capacities I'm going to say the first moment sounds like she's full of adrenaline or anxiety on meeting this woman (maybe even something darker, the music points that way), whereas in the second part we have the aftermath of that initial feeling and it could be her understanding she's in love or maybe the two of them finally sharing the authenticity in feelings after all that adrenaline etc. Or, else it could be the morning, and she's thinking of what happened during the night (like someone with a hangover thinking about a crazy night for example).
But it's definitely about 2 women. And it's not her only song: think about Chloe in the Afternoon.
I don't get the number 2 pencil thing. I mean I can gather some symbolism if I reach far enough lol but what's your take?
I don't get the number 2 pencil thing. I mean I can gather some symbolism if I reach far enough lol but what's your take?