She burns like a burning bushdriven by a godawful wind.
bushfires spread rapidly with the help of wind
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She burns like a shot glass of vodka.
comparing her to the strong burning taste of vodka
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She glows like the fat tipof a banker's cigar,
she glowed very brightly and vividly
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like a sack of dry ice.
dry ice smokes a lot without adding anything to it creates imagery
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We stand with our handshanging at our sides,
they were frozen in place out of shock from what was happening before them
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A skirt of flamesdances around her
maybe she was lost in a fire
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she burns like a piece of paper.
simile comparing her to how fast paper burns
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The cry I bring down from the hillsbelongs to a girl still burninginside my head.
he is heavily thinking about this girl
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in the many many mornings-after;
she is wishing that they have more days to come
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cultivation of strength to heal and enhancein the non-cheering dark,
she wants them to heal from this and become stronger
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what wants to crumble you down, to sickenyou.
she is telling her audience to never let anyone break you down
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Overlong blows that you want to give and blows you are going to get.
sometimes what you give is not what you get
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cultivation of victory
she is rooting for them to get this victory
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I call for you
she is letting her audience know that she is thinking about them
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Where it is dry.Where it is dry.
repetition, must be an important part of the poem
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Under the wolves and coyotes of particular silences.
could be comparing two similar like things
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in the vertigo cold.in the hot paralysis.
paradox between good and bad shows how somedays it is very cold and some days it is very hot
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Dark gardening
shows a negative connotation could be describing where the prisoners are
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You've got that long hair slick back, white t-shirtAnd I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt
she is comparing their appearances and how maybe they go together
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I got that red lip, classic thing that you like
red lips is something that everyone associates with her
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I should just tell you to leave 'cause IKnow exactly where it leads
she knows that after this he will leave and she will not hear from him for a while, yet she keeps allowing him to leave and come back as he pleases to.
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It's been a while since I have even heard from you
he may talk to her only when he wants to he is not in a committed relationship with her
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could end in burning flames or paradise
they are both contradicting each other, one being good and one being bad knowing how this could end tells me that she has done this with him before
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you come and pick me up, no headlights
he may not want to be seen, knowing that he came very late and did not have his headlights on
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if it's just in your wildest dreams,
she never wants him to forget her, which is why she said even in your wildest dreams because no matter where he sees her, she just wants to be remembered.
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remember me standing in a nice dress
she knows that they will never meet again but she had so much fun with him that she does not want to be forgotten by him
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our very last kiss
she knows that she might not ever see this man again
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Nothing lasts forever but this is getting good now
she knows that whatever happens with this man is not going to last and she is having fun with it
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his voice is a familiar sound
maybe she has met him somewhere before and did not remember him but maybe he remembered her and did not want to lose track of her which is why he wanted to go somewhere less crowded and more private
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his clothes are in my room
in the first line he said "lets get out of this town" but now they have ended up in her room Is he a guy from out of town? Did he mean her house when he said somewhere less crowded?
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I said, "No one has to know what we do"
whatever they do has to stay a secret does is have to be a secret because of her fame?
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He's so bad but he does it so well
she may find him being bad as attractive in a way, since she said he was handsome and he does being bad so well
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I thought heaven can't help me now
something bad might happen since in the previous line the guy wants them to be alone away from people
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in slow motion, almost exactly like a coach’s drawing on the blackboard,
describing how it feels the game is being played
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losing his balance in the process,
the player looses balance and falls before he can make the lay-up
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for the game he loved like a country
shows how much he loved that game and how he loved it so strongly
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for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather from the air like a cherished possession
the center is not that good and when he perfectly timed his shot he finally did something right
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imes his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather from the air
he was able to catch the ball from the air with perfect timing the use of the word perfect is saying how swiftly he was able to do it with no hesitation
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A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn’t drop,
kisses show how close the ball was to the rim, but it does not drop
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'Cause, darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream
she is wearing a mask the mask is her being a daydream but under the mask she is a nightmare
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Screaming, crying, perfect storms
this could be the part where she shows herself after being who he wants for a month
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Find out what you wantBe that girl for a month
she will change herself for him so that he will think that she is what he wants
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Find out what you wantBe that girl for a month
she is going to change herself for him so that he will think that she is what she wants
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Stolen kisses, pretty lies
kind of the same feel as "magic, madness, heaven, sin" they both have a good and bad connotations
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But I've got a blank space, babyAnd I'll write your name
she still has space for him on her list of exes she already knows that they will not work out, because if she thought they were going to work out she would not add him to her list of ex-lovers
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Got a long list of ex-lovers
she has had a lot of previous relationships who all think that she is the problem
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Or with a nasty scar
it will leave him with a mental scar
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So it's gonna be foreverOr it's gonna go down in flames
she is saying that their relationship will either last forever or she will put up a big fight if it ends
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I can make the bad guys good for a weekend
she can change people for her own enjoyment
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And I know you heard about me
this goes along with the line above it she is acknowledging that there are rumors being spread around about her that she knows he has heard
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I can read you like a magazine
since magazines mainly focus on the good things and looks she can see the good in him and how attractive he is.
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You look like my next mistake
it seems like she is hinting that the already knows they will end badly
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Magic, madness, heaven, sin
she is saying how there is a good and a bad to everything
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Nice to meet you, where you been?
she is excited to meet this person and she wishes that they have met sooner
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Nor hopped to Audiences—like Birds
she has created a visual image on how ballerinas look when they are dancing on one leg
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Nor any know I know the Art
she does not know anything about the art of ballet or dance
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In Pirouette to blanch a Troupe—Or lay a Prima, mad
she is saying that if she did do ballet her pirouettes would be better than everyone else's just to joke about
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No Ringlet, to my Hair,
she does not have her hair done like how ballerinas have their hair done
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no Gown of Gauze
she did not have the beautiful dance wear that ballerinas have
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A Glee possesseth me
she sometimes feels like she can dance bellet
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No Man instructed me
she was never taught how to which is why she does not know how.
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I cannot dance upon my Toes
she was not taught how to do ballet
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