Judgement day (...) a lonely bird, alone [This is my favourite part, however absent from the music video - what a shame]
Colour me (...) you said to me, sometime later. [Includes the climax]
This song was used in a commercial for Ford Ka - I've watched it a few hours ago and it fits the song. If there was an element to describe the whole song, it would be the wind : taking away all that's been promised, but not fully realised.
My point of view would be personal, based on memories of a boyfriend, my favorite ever, from my late teenage years, however 14 years older. But first, here's my interpretation.
ACT I
The narrator (could be a girl here) reminds the beautiful days she had with her boyfriend of more than one year. They apparently started their love relationship in summer and the sea ("sold the sea, a lot how it feels to me"), was their love was in the air for both of them, and despite their 14-year old age gap, they were deeply in love ("yeah, as I said") - the problem was that, after more than 18 months together, he had to go back to the capital where he usually lives, while she remained in her city : after his birthday, she took the decision of leaving him, promising he'll give more news whenever he could. The chorus "one day, she woke" could be modified into "he woke".
ACT II
Now it's autumn (I misunderstand "old dummy day" as "autumny day"), more than one year after the couple's breakup, and the narrator either has a new boyfriend (and this one is more unfaithful) or is single. The wind has taken the proof of their love (of the man she loved most), and during the hard recovering, she may have experienced cigarettes and alcohol (but no sex) but quit both very quickly, because he wouldn't have liked her doing that anyway ("today a renegade"). Birds fly in the sky, she is alone in her bedroom and doesn't want to get up ("you don't force on my head, kill our nightmare").
ACT III
The narrator remembers she wore her favourite colors (purple and lavender IMHO) and some make up to please her ex-boyfriend. She must have found a match (here, his lookalike) but refrains from doing so because she refuses to replay what's been done a few years before. There, comes the climax, the part in which my tears are forced away from my heart : in her bedroom, with her favourite colors, one night (she prefers nighttime to daytime), she feels like the wind has brought back news of her boyfriend, but feels like she wouldn't assume their relationship the same way they did before. Her wounds rip, she remembers him a lot and feels too excited despite being sleepy ("hold the sun down, hold the moon down, leave me to rest"). She collected their love letters and would feel his touch again, and then, imagines her ex-boyfriend would reassure her if he faced her in tears right now. But she remains hopeful she will see him again, sometime later.
First of all, divide the songs into 3 parts
This song was used in a commercial for Ford Ka - I've watched it a few hours ago and it fits the song. If there was an element to describe the whole song, it would be the wind : taking away all that's been promised, but not fully realised. My point of view would be personal, based on memories of a boyfriend, my favorite ever, from my late teenage years, however 14 years older. But first, here's my interpretation.
ACT I The narrator (could be a girl here) reminds the beautiful days she had with her boyfriend of more than one year. They apparently started their love relationship in summer and the sea ("sold the sea, a lot how it feels to me"), was their love was in the air for both of them, and despite their 14-year old age gap, they were deeply in love ("yeah, as I said") - the problem was that, after more than 18 months together, he had to go back to the capital where he usually lives, while she remained in her city : after his birthday, she took the decision of leaving him, promising he'll give more news whenever he could. The chorus "one day, she woke" could be modified into "he woke".
ACT II Now it's autumn (I misunderstand "old dummy day" as "autumny day"), more than one year after the couple's breakup, and the narrator either has a new boyfriend (and this one is more unfaithful) or is single. The wind has taken the proof of their love (of the man she loved most), and during the hard recovering, she may have experienced cigarettes and alcohol (but no sex) but quit both very quickly, because he wouldn't have liked her doing that anyway ("today a renegade"). Birds fly in the sky, she is alone in her bedroom and doesn't want to get up ("you don't force on my head, kill our nightmare").
ACT III The narrator remembers she wore her favourite colors (purple and lavender IMHO) and some make up to please her ex-boyfriend. She must have found a match (here, his lookalike) but refrains from doing so because she refuses to replay what's been done a few years before. There, comes the climax, the part in which my tears are forced away from my heart : in her bedroom, with her favourite colors, one night (she prefers nighttime to daytime), she feels like the wind has brought back news of her boyfriend, but feels like she wouldn't assume their relationship the same way they did before. Her wounds rip, she remembers him a lot and feels too excited despite being sleepy ("hold the sun down, hold the moon down, leave me to rest"). She collected their love letters and would feel his touch again, and then, imagines her ex-boyfriend would reassure her if he faced her in tears right now. But she remains hopeful she will see him again, sometime later.