CMOS has a colorful interpretation but wildly far afield from my own imaginings.
I think it's much more mundane than an exotic sexual lifestyle. The whole album seems to be reflections from the experience of advanced years if not just simple and ongoing maturity.
Basically, the speaker first began to grow a more cynical outlook, for better or for worse, after meeting this other person.
I feel like the cynicism might just as easily be the extra cautions taken as one matures, a necessary evil.
I see the darkness as representing those simple tendencies towards cynicism from the ideals of younger, carefree days.
The present being less pleasant from "a lot of things to do" is simply increased responsibilities that come with maturity and accomplishment. In maturity you take on more happily, but, perhaps simultaneously allow a kind of cynicism to creep in and it colors your outlook, for better or worse.
The cup belonged to another, possibly more experienced, "mature" friend or lover. She demonstrates the inevitability of this transition. He partakes of her attitude, drinking from that same "cup", wondering if he might adopt the same views himself once he learns of them.
CMOS has a colorful interpretation but wildly far afield from my own imaginings.
I think it's much more mundane than an exotic sexual lifestyle. The whole album seems to be reflections from the experience of advanced years if not just simple and ongoing maturity.
Basically, the speaker first began to grow a more cynical outlook, for better or for worse, after meeting this other person. I feel like the cynicism might just as easily be the extra cautions taken as one matures, a necessary evil.
I see the darkness as representing those simple tendencies towards cynicism from the ideals of younger, carefree days. The present being less pleasant from "a lot of things to do" is simply increased responsibilities that come with maturity and accomplishment. In maturity you take on more happily, but, perhaps simultaneously allow a kind of cynicism to creep in and it colors your outlook, for better or worse. The cup belonged to another, possibly more experienced, "mature" friend or lover. She demonstrates the inevitability of this transition. He partakes of her attitude, drinking from that same "cup", wondering if he might adopt the same views himself once he learns of them.