New money, suit and tieI can read you like a magazine
A fresh start, like starting a new beginning.
New money, suit and tieI can read you like a magazine
A fresh start, like starting a new beginning.
I could show you incredible thingsMagic, madness, heaven, sinSaw you there and I thought"Oh, my God, look at that faceYou look like my next mistakeLove's a game, wanna play?" Ay
SHE WANNA GET FREAKYYY
Nice to meet you, where you been?
Looks to be talking to someone, or something
He can't keep his wild eyes on the road,
he keeps looking at the girl.
'Cause we never go out of style, we never go out of styleYou got that long hair, slicked back, white T-shirtAnd I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirtAnd when we go crashing down, we come back every time'Cause we never go out of style, we never go out of style
Never going out of style, describing the way they look and who they are.
James Dean daydream look in your eye
Calling your hot.
And I should just tell you to leave 'cause IKnow exactly where it leads,
BARS!!!!! See saying that he is just going to play her again.
It's been a while since I have even heard from you
She got ghosted.
Could end in burning flames or paradise
Could end good or bad.
You come and pick me up, no headlightsLong drive
Sneaking out to hang out with a girl
‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
He saying his neibor is very dirty and acts like a cow with no cow he doesnt actully have a cow but he is cmparing his neibpr to it.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
good boundries to maintain peace with no adversity.
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’ We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
something cutting down trees if had to guess.
No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there.
very mysterious and, and also unknown
And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
sepratation between the 2 people
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
Doesnt have boundaries,
so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
She had tried so hard and put so much time and effort into it but doesn't seem to get the break through.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
She is used to not having stuff go her way, he could be a failing artists with tons of losses and not many wins.
One Art
Taking her 2 jobs, painter in a writer.
lonely
Which is another reference to depressing vib she gives off with the overuse of cold, and lonely and chronic anger.
cold
Another reference to cold, which could mean depressing and she is or her fatther is depressed.
chronic angers o
Chronic means long period of time and angers means mad wich could mean their was some controversy as a child between parents and she doesn't want that to come back.
slowly I would rise and dress
descrbiing how she got up compared to their dad
warm,
It uses warm and cold alot, so maybe their in a state up north where it is very very cold.
wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
imagery describing how cold it is
Sundays too my father got up early
Sunday is usually a day to chill out but he still got up early and worked.
No one ever thanked him.
No credit for his work, hard work gets not credit.
weekday weather made banked fires blaze
Another metophor describing how hot it is in his work conditions.
weekday weather made banked fires blaze
Another metaphor
cracked hands that ached from labor
Describing how hard his job is and how he works at his job to. (also a metaphor)
blueblack cold,
Describing how cold it is
by himself now and laying it gently against the glass for a lay-up, but losing his balance in the process, inexplicably falling, hitting the floor
The really dramatic scene right here, making you feel in the moment, having you feel good about yourself.
between them without a dribble, without a single bounce hitting the hardwood until the guard finally lunges out and commits to the wrong man
The defender right before the lay-up, bite for the wrong man, but could also be relating to another man lifes, putting your trust in the wrong thing and not going by your instincts.
in slow motion, almost exactly like a coach’s drawing on the blackboard,
He wants you to highlight slow motion because he wants you to read the play in slow motion and feel the dramatic feeling that the poem gives off.
and 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
This is a similie comaoring cherished items to a basketball.
and 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
Boxing out is a move in basketball to move the defender out of the way, and to box out means to move out of the way which could mean he is moving things out of the way to get what he wants in life ( the basketball)
rim
This could relate to his life right now, dangling by the rim waiting for something good to happen barely hanging on.