I like the use of seasons as a metaphor representing the relationship between the protagonist and mystery person. The couple experienced a hot and passionate summer ("sunburned hands") and inevitably autumn comes around, extinguishing the longing this couple mustve felt for each other. As she looks out her window the "red and gold leaves", colors evoking feelings of passion?, are in transit to their death. The protagnist glimpses their last futile but graceful fluttering in the air before they land to the ground. Winter will come to cover these and other memories and will symbolize the end of the relationship.
I like the the focus on the leaves. Falling autumn leaves are wispy and ephemeral. They drift by her window. I like to imagine this song being about a memory of a person that had a profound effect on the protagonists life; the protagonist has gone on with her life but will always hold a place for that person in her heart and this is just one such inistance in time which gives her pause, where she becomes aware of this longing.
I dont see this as being at all lugubrious but a realization at the ephemerality of changing people and changing times.
I like the use of seasons as a metaphor representing the relationship between the protagonist and mystery person. The couple experienced a hot and passionate summer ("sunburned hands") and inevitably autumn comes around, extinguishing the longing this couple mustve felt for each other. As she looks out her window the "red and gold leaves", colors evoking feelings of passion?, are in transit to their death. The protagnist glimpses their last futile but graceful fluttering in the air before they land to the ground. Winter will come to cover these and other memories and will symbolize the end of the relationship.
I like the the focus on the leaves. Falling autumn leaves are wispy and ephemeral. They drift by her window. I like to imagine this song being about a memory of a person that had a profound effect on the protagonists life; the protagonist has gone on with her life but will always hold a place for that person in her heart and this is just one such inistance in time which gives her pause, where she becomes aware of this longing.
I dont see this as being at all lugubrious but a realization at the ephemerality of changing people and changing times.