The song opens up with an image of a fight between a couple that instead of ending in pain, just quietness. They lay in silence, listening to the garbage truck and thinking about picking and choosing in their own lives. This leads into the next verse of thinking, where she thinks everyone picks and chooses what their beliefs and values are, and those interpretations of life gives them ammunition against others "quiver and arrows."
She talks about that ammunition keeping the divide between people wide because of it closes, we will see the "smallness of our deconstruction of love," where we basically squabble over what we all agree on, which is how to love one another.
The song opens up with an image of a fight between a couple that instead of ending in pain, just quietness. They lay in silence, listening to the garbage truck and thinking about picking and choosing in their own lives. This leads into the next verse of thinking, where she thinks everyone picks and chooses what their beliefs and values are, and those interpretations of life gives them ammunition against others "quiver and arrows."
She talks about that ammunition keeping the divide between people wide because of it closes, we will see the "smallness of our deconstruction of love," where we basically squabble over what we all agree on, which is how to love one another.