It strikes me as a first love/losing virginity song. She loves the boy but he is distant and he "let me go sailing." He makes love to her but he's not in love with her and then by the end of summer it's over. "Riding" and "cherries" seem to be pretty straightforward metaphors: but brilliantly realized. The song crystallizes heartache in a very subtle way. Genius.
It strikes me as a first love/losing virginity song. She loves the boy but he is distant and he "let me go sailing." He makes love to her but he's not in love with her and then by the end of summer it's over. "Riding" and "cherries" seem to be pretty straightforward metaphors: but brilliantly realized. The song crystallizes heartache in a very subtle way. Genius.