a retrospective

at 17:18

Wednesday 2 April 2008

I don't understand about complementary colors
And what they say
Side by side they both get bright
Together they both get gray

But he's been pretty much yellow
And I've been kinda blue
But all I can see is
Red, red, red, red, red now
What am I gonna do

I don't understand about
Diamonds and why men buy them
What's so impressive about a diamond
Except the mining

And it's dangerous work
Trying to get to you too
And I think if I didn't have to
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill myself doing it
Maybe I wouldn't think so much of you

I've been watching all the time
And I still can't find the tack
And I wanna know is it okay
Is it just fine
Or is it my fault
Is it my lack

I don't understand about
The weather outside
Or the harmony in a tune
Or why somebody lied

There's solace a bit for submitting
To the fitfully cryptically true
What's happened has happened
What's coming is already on its way
With a role for me to play

I don't understand
I'll never understand
But I'll try to understand
There's nothing else I can do

~Fiona Apple Red, Red, Red

3 comments:

Blonde Savant said...

This is one of my favorite songs. This is starting to get a little freaky now, with the random weird similarities. Crap, now I sound like a stalker...

Alex the Odd said...

blonde savant: Never fear, I like stalkers! In fact I like them so much I collect them.

I'm kidding of course but I do love that I'm finding more and more people who are just like me. There are so few people in my "real" life who are in to the same things that I am that I can start to feel a little bit like a freak sometimes.

Blonde Savant said...

That's because you live in stodgy old England. You need to come to California and join your geeky peers.