Yum. One of my favorite songs, especially as of a summer or two ago. Actually, it’s the song that made me fall in love with Straylight Run in the first place.
Back then I gave it a meaning different than the one I now attribute to it. Even today, though, part of that meaning revolves around the endless possibilities of young love and the sheer joy of those late sunsets and bright mornings of teenage summers. The green eyes as symbolic of the lush green of the grass and trees, and the tension and the terror the effects of a young life entering into adulthood, in which the moral absolutes are dissolving with the onset of newfound independence and feelings of desire.
“You devastate me,” I sing. In my fall for you, my fall into the world of love, can I trust that I will realize something better than I must now leave behind? “Just keep me guessing. Please.”
All the boys’ voices cracking, all the moaning half-tones
Come summertime, we’re all the same age here
All the tension and the terror
Thin-limbed, gorgeous green eyes, smiling
And I’m going straight to hellAll the possibility and promise just weighs on me so heavily
And I try but I’m not convincing
Your lips, they pout and twist and
I die trying just to keep myself from kissing you
You take in everything with a certainty I envy
It’s somehow all I need, just keep me guessing, pleaseOh, darling, all of these awkward jump-start-stalling conversations
Mean much more to me than anything
So it comes down to me and you and
Whether we’re supposed to or not, we still will
We’re so much better off than themAll the possibility and promise just weighs on me so heavily
And I try but I’m not convincing
Your lips, they pout and twist and
I die trying just to keep myself from kissing you
You take in everything with a certainty I envy
It’s somehow all I need, just keep me guessing, pleaseA look, a laugh, a smile, a second passes by, and I regret it
Words just aren’t right
Sometimes I just can’t explain
All the ways you devastate me
Always on my mindI try but I’m not convincing
Your lips, they pout and twist and
I die trying just to keep myself from kissing you
You take in everything with a certainty I envy
It’s somehow all I need, just keep me guessing, please
