Line and Sinker
Echoes of Youth: Love, Loss, and Late Nights
Lyrics
Despite what you recommend
Despite disagreement with your advice or suggestions
Despite what you implement
Despite disagreement with your implementation or actions
This just can't stand anymore
Expressing an intolerable situation
3 A.M. at my door
Describing a moment at 3 A.M. with someone at the door
With no one to tell you that it's wrong
No one is there to point out the wrong in the situation
Drugged for some seasons
Reference to being under the influence during certain periods
Sure we were pure
Claiming purity despite engaging in risky behavior
Like cancer's quick miracle
Comparing purity to a quick but miraculous cure for cancer
Or resin chalk spectacles
Reference to unclear or distorted perspectives like looking through chalk spectacles
Party after party
Describing a series of parties with implied consequences
The laughs they just told you that you were on
The realization that laughter might have misled about one's state
And the luckiest asshole I've ever met
Referring to someone considered extremely fortunate, possibly sarcastically
Is playing music on my bed again
Someone playing music on the bed, indicating a close connection
Sharing wings and boulders
Sharing intimate moments and overcoming obstacles
Bringing me back in
Someone or something bringing the speaker back into a situation
Those who all give advice
People offering advice
Those who all recommend
People making recommendations
Those who know everything
People claiming to know everything
Kitchen philosophy
Discussing philosophy in a casual setting, perhaps the kitchen
Those who speak quietly
People who speak softly and show sympathy
Words wide and sympathy
Words wide with sympathy, possibly suggesting insincerity or superficial understanding
They don't know of your eyes
People unaware of the speaker's true emotions or feelings
Six inches from mine
Close physical proximity between the speaker and someone else
Or the taste of your hips
Describing a sensual experience with someone, possibly metaphorical
With the windows wide open
A moment of intimacy with openness and exposure
So here we hang loosely
Describing a state of being loose and exposed, possibly vulnerable
And dry on the vine
Drying up or withering, possibly referring to the end of something
I put my hair up and think of us marrying
Personal reflection on marriage and commitment
This garden's the same but these fruits have new names
Comparing a garden and its fruits to the persistence of a relationship with changing circumstances
I have wanted you for so long
Expressing a long-standing desire for someone
And the luck of the lasso, for once I wept
Mentioning the luck of capturing someone's attention
Never seemed to get more than a glance
Not receiving more than a passing glance from the desired person
And the feathers and boulders I once possessed
Possessions or qualities (feathers and boulders) that the speaker once had
They found a home in age and circumstance
These possessions finding a place in the speaker's life due to aging and circumstances
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