To press a flower is to make a memory, to commemorate a special moment. When he says "You and I, we're just pressing flowers" I think he's saying we're making memories. In the next part ("they're dying, but they're ours") I think he's saying that he knows their time won't last, and they have to go their separate ways.
Perhaps this is a couple who was together previously, and is coming back "meeting in the garden" to have one last moment together, but they know they cannot be together. Maybe they're with other people.
Such a hauntingly beautiful song! The Civil Wars always manage to trigger memories for me, and bring me joy and pain in equal measure.
To press a flower is to make a memory, to commemorate a special moment. When he says "You and I, we're just pressing flowers" I think he's saying we're making memories. In the next part ("they're dying, but they're ours") I think he's saying that he knows their time won't last, and they have to go their separate ways.
Perhaps this is a couple who was together previously, and is coming back "meeting in the garden" to have one last moment together, but they know they cannot be together. Maybe they're with other people.
Such a hauntingly beautiful song! The Civil Wars always manage to trigger memories for me, and bring me joy and pain in equal measure.