Themes & Motifs I’ve noticed on Lover 💗💗💗💗
America (american glory faded before me, american stories burning before me, our country united we stand, american smile)
New York City (im new york city, back and forth from new york, cornelia street)
Religion (bless my soul, devils and angels, all of false god, breakable heaven, sacred new beginnings, that became my religion, church bells, I pray to you and Jesus too)
Cars & backseats (drunk in the back of the car, in the backseat drunk on something stronger, I say casually in the car, traffic lights, street lights, I’ll drive, the road gets hard, rainy cab ride)
Flaws and acceptance (it’s all me in my head, so many lines that I’ve crossed, I’ve got a hundred thrown out speeches I almost said to you, I know that I’m handful, I’m the only one of me, I’m the one who burned us down, daring you to leave me just so I can try and scare you, I blew things out of proportion, I’m to blame)
Moving forward (now I daylight, now I’m wide awake, it isn’t love it isn’t hate it’s just indifference, it’ll be alright, it’s gonna be alright, I’ve waited my whole life, I’ve learned a lesson, snakes and stones never broke my bones)
Childhood (laughed on the schoolyard, it’s like I’m 17, than I was at 16, school bell rings, sidewalk chalk, I never grew up, like a child when our eyes meet, reference to humpty dumpty and sticks and stones rhymes)
Blue (it’s blue the feeling I’ve got, even if it makes me blue, indigo eyes, we’re so sad we paint the town blue, now you’re blue, yours has been blue)
Chance (devils roll their dice, the whole school is rolling fake dice, I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this, then something happened one magical night)
Windows (windows flung right open, staring out the window, I look through the windows of this love, killing me slow out the window)
Weddings (my heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue, I’d marry you with paper rings, rice on the ground looks like snow)
Drugs/alcohol (the wine is cold, I get drunk, drunk in the back, from the bar, high like your friends, gave me up like I was a bad drug, my wine, drinking in the afternoon)
Seasons (autumn air, cruel summer, every night that summer, loved you 3 summers, living in winter I am your summer, covered in snow)
Holding on and hope (help me hold on to you, I never wanna see you walk away, I don’t wanna lose this with you, I hope I never lose you, I’m so terrified of if you ever walk away, desperate people find faith, I’m feeling hopeless, blind faith, you’re the kind of guy the ladies want, I’m highly suspicious that everyone who sees you wants you)
Home (leading us home, I think you should come home, I take the long way home, feels like home, they say home is where the heart is, I love my hometown, coming home from the bar)
The number 20 (in a 20 year dark night, have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years, 20 questions)