maybe she was and doesn't want to admit it because to the guy and the 'floozies' the whole dating process is just a picking game, where people are selected or discarded at random. The image of blood running from meat in 'Do I run rare?' echoes that of water running from snow, but the fact that it's a question means she's not admitting to having been heartbroken. The 'golden' rush of their initial connection is replaced by 'gray' and 'blue'. If the 'floozies' can 'afford to be choosy' the implication is that the narrator can't instead, she hopes to be chosen, but is metaphorically 'knocked down' by her love interest and withdraws. When I was at school, 'each peach pear plum' was a picking rhyme, an alternative to 'eeny-meeny-myah-mo' and 'one potato two potato.' (The fruits are ordered differently in order to play on the 'pear/pair' homonym and pointedly leave out the 'pair' at the end.)Īdults, here, pick partners in the same arbitrary way that children might pick playmates. Peach, Plum *NO PEAR* (An interruption, things don't go as planned) Peach, Plum, Pear (How she thought she'd change)
Is she so dear? (Is she all that she thought she was? As valuable?)ĭoes she run rare? (Is she uniquely suitable like she thought she was? Are there many like her?)Īnd you've changed some (prononciation of some not as "sum" but "som" a reference to her name New"som"? She's changed because of this) She's changed, and she shies (or runs) away from snow because she's scared of rejection againĪfter being confident in her beauty/intelligence/suitability it's a knock to her confidence Water runs from snow, it changes form (change), it runs (he ran away, if she used to be snow (her situation, or herself) and now she is water (or her situation).
She tells herself to watch it go (letting go/release) She's back to square one.īlue now, not red with love and the exitementīolt like a horse, when horses are scared, now she is scared as a result of rejection - change
The reason she wants this relationship is because she's alone, because she wants company, because she thinks he'll make her life better, any of these, that is her original position or "source" and the story runs to that. Now it was going where it wanted, she rides it frightened Na na nana na - children, children/peers mocking her maybe? She's read books on this, she's prepared herself greatly for this opportunity, but it means she knows from the looks he gives her that he's not interested (the palm - used to push something away - of your eye) A thoroughly beautiful song, one of the most enlightening and exiting things I've listened to for an awfully long time.
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