The guy leaves the girl to be "a good man for someone else". This part also means that they are not upset with each other, since she still love him. In fact, she doesn't care for anybody else except him ("Hated hearing ,u name on the lips of a crowd | Did my best to exist just for you"). The pain of that lost "stood on my chest and kept me down". By the time Lorde sings "I bet you rue the day you kissed the writer in the sark", I believe that's how they met, and the "writer" it's her. For that, she bets that he is sorry for that moment. Then, Lord changes tone, and sings "Now she's gonna play and sing and lock you in her heart". This change, to a higher voice, I believe, is a caricature (sort of... like making fun) of the perfect life they are going to live and how well the new girls is going to feel.
Then, in the chorus, Lorde repeats that she is going to love him insanely, at the point that he may "call the cops" to keep her away. Then, at the and, she refers that she may have found a "secret power" that will allow her to live without him.
At the second half of the song, she almost says that that guy belongs in the past, although she still thinks of him "now and then". Now, she "rides the subway", she "reads the signs", she let the seasons change her mind, meaning she started to pay attention to her surroundings and the good that life has to offer. Now she is fine, since she stopped needing that guy.
My guess is that this is a typical love story.
The guy leaves the girl to be "a good man for someone else". This part also means that they are not upset with each other, since she still love him. In fact, she doesn't care for anybody else except him ("Hated hearing ,u name on the lips of a crowd | Did my best to exist just for you"). The pain of that lost "stood on my chest and kept me down". By the time Lorde sings "I bet you rue the day you kissed the writer in the sark", I believe that's how they met, and the "writer" it's her. For that, she bets that he is sorry for that moment. Then, Lord changes tone, and sings "Now she's gonna play and sing and lock you in her heart". This change, to a higher voice, I believe, is a caricature (sort of... like making fun) of the perfect life they are going to live and how well the new girls is going to feel.
Then, in the chorus, Lorde repeats that she is going to love him insanely, at the point that he may "call the cops" to keep her away. Then, at the and, she refers that she may have found a "secret power" that will allow her to live without him.
At the second half of the song, she almost says that that guy belongs in the past, although she still thinks of him "now and then". Now, she "rides the subway", she "reads the signs", she let the seasons change her mind, meaning she started to pay attention to her surroundings and the good that life has to offer. Now she is fine, since she stopped needing that guy.
I find this song beautiful.