“The birds & the bees” being the talk we get about love, and the making of it, when we’re old enough to warrant an explanation. So the house in your heart for the bird, and the bonnet over your brain for the bee, I think he’s talking about committing to just this one love. Love itself, for that to be your only true love, and he’s asking you to make a dwelling place within you for it to live. The verbal back-and-forth contradictory lines at the beginning might be more a reflection of us than the speaker, how we can be so inconsistent and hypocritical. But the night-light watching over you, the light in the darkness, this is singular, simple, and unchanging. Letting that shine from within you is what’s advised in this song.
“The birds & the bees” being the talk we get about love, and the making of it, when we’re old enough to warrant an explanation. So the house in your heart for the bird, and the bonnet over your brain for the bee, I think he’s talking about committing to just this one love. Love itself, for that to be your only true love, and he’s asking you to make a dwelling place within you for it to live. The verbal back-and-forth contradictory lines at the beginning might be more a reflection of us than the speaker, how we can be so inconsistent and hypocritical. But the night-light watching over you, the light in the darkness, this is singular, simple, and unchanging. Letting that shine from within you is what’s advised in this song.