Connections Are More Dangerous Than Lies
Navigating Love's Complexity: The Ataris' Insightful Reflection
Lyrics
Electric windmill skyline
Describing a cityscape with windmills powered by electricity.
The cracking soil beneath my feet
Noting the ground breaking or cracking beneath the speaker's feet.
It's pearls drenched with lust
Referring to something valuable (pearls) saturated with desire.
This empty bed, the sweat soaked sheets
Describing an empty bed with sheets soaked in sweat.
It's like they empty out the ocean
Using metaphorical imagery to convey the depletion of resources and efforts to repair the environment.
Bodies mending this scorched earth
-It's like they empty out the ocean
-Bodies mending this scorched earth
-So call me on your long walks home
Inviting a call during walks home, emphasizing shared experiences and unity in inebriated states.
Where drunken voices bleed into one
-If you're not in love, stay where you are
Repetition emphasizing staying put if not in love.
If you're not in love, stay where you are
-If you're not in love, stay where you are
-If you're not in love, stay where you are
-I will to you the smell of burning leaves
Evoking sensory details (smell of burning leaves, windchimes, fireflies) and contrasting aspects of a past relationship as both dishonest and passionate.
Rusted windchimes and the feverish glow of fireflies
-We were such terrible liars
-We were such passionate lovers
-We were such terrible liars
-We were such passionate lovers
-So call me on your long walks home
Reiterating the call during walks home.
Where drunken voices bleed into one
-If you're not in love, stay where you are
Repeating the advice to stay in one's current state if not in love.
If you're not in love, stay where you are
-If you're not in love, stay where you are
-If you're not in love, stay where you are
-We awoke on your cluttered bed
Describing waking up to the sounds of schoolchildren, with hearts full and habitual words effortlessly spoken.
To the schoolchildren below
-Our teeming hearts
-Habitual words are effortlessly flung
-We were such terrible liars
Reiterating the contradictory nature of the past relationship as both terrible liars and passionate lovers.
We were such passionate lovers
-We were such terrible liars
-We were such passionate lovers
-We were such terrible liars
-We were such passionate lovers
-We were such terrible liars
-We were such passionate lovers
-(Call me on your long walks home
Repeating the call during walks home as a recurring theme.
Where drunken voices bleed into one)
-If you're not in love, stay where you are
Emphasizing the advice to stay in one's current state if not in love.
If you're not in love, stay where you are
-If you're not in love, stay where you are
-If you're not in love, stay where you are
-Stay where you are
Final repetition of the advice to stay where you are if not in love.
If you're not in love, stay where you are
-Stay where you are
-If you're not in love, stay where you are
Final emphasis on staying where you are if not in love.
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