I'm glad you all like my interpretation! From the time when I wrote this I have since watched the music video and that has changed my perspective on the song a little bit and so thought I'd update! Even if he really is lost to her forever she would rather bet her life on the chance of being with him again than go on without him. She considers the possibility that they may never be together again. Because it doesn't hurt any less now than it ever did she thinks it won't ever get any better. It has been so long and she still misses him deeply. Like the stars miss the sun in the morning skiesĮven if you're gone I'm gonna drive, drive" If her suicide attempt is successful, she knows she will die happy. She senses him in the passenger seat as she speeds down the road and this gives her confidence. Nothing could ever hurt her worse than losing him did. She feels "alive" and "on fire." She feels this energy "in the air" and all around her. She is sort of delirious and euphoric at the idea of being reunited with her lover in the afterlife. She feels his intense gaze on her ("sizzling like your stare") as she she dolls herself up for the occasion. Telephone wires above all sizzling like your stare She can't bear the thought of going back to trying to forget him. I think it is this idea that inspires her to commit suicide in the first place. Which is why she tells him, "Kiss me hard before you go." She knows when the summer ends she will have to go back to trying to live without him, instead of just letting the depression consume her as she does at this time of the year. She misses him madly and is somewhat happy just to feel him around.
It could be his spirit or wishful thinking but it's all the same to her. The elements remind her of him and freshen her fading memories. She feels his presence this summer, as she does every summer because it is the season in which he died. I hug my little sister hard when I'm not going to see her for a while. A lover, I think, because of the line, "kiss me hard before you go." This *could* be directed at a close female friend or sister or other family member but to me the line is more passionate and sexual than that. My InterpretationShe has lost someone dear to her. but a sister you can lose only once (more or less). Usually the most people fall in love, lose the loved (without them dying), fall in love with someone else, lose them, fall in love again. On the cheeks, or it might be a greeting or some sort of code.īesides: sisterhood might be much stronger. Irritating might be the "kiss me hard" part, though girls/sisters can kiss without beeing lesbian, too. And now she's not scared to die anymore, though she moves on. Now when she's gone, Lana keeps doing everything they might have done together (partys, cars, what young girls can do), like in a trance, so she won't break down over her death, still feeling everything they felt together, but also (summertime) sadness and emptiness. It seems, the sister wanted to suicide, and though Lana didn't, they understood each other enough, that Lana didn't want to stop her, just make sure she says goodbye. Though even before that I already thought it might be someone like a sister, someone who's not completing Lana like a partner would, but is/was exactly like her, a real soulmate. I actually watched a Video, where there was a girl involved, not a guy. Everybody is so focused in partnership love. Even though he's gone, she's going to remember and honor how wonderful this time period of her life was. It's as if she finally realized how much she's going to miss this person and has finally told them her true feelings. Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky.
"Even if you're gone, I'm going to drive." Yes, this person isn't a part of her life anymore, but she relives her relationship with him by driving down memory lane.ĭoes anyone else hear "I think I'll miss you forever like the stars miss the sun in the morning skies"? That makes more sense to me than "I think I'll love you forever." Thinking about how much she loved this person and how this person may have been the best person she's ever been with, it brings her sadness. She feels so invincible with this person that she could die and still be happy. This person is someone who made her feel electric, alive, and in love. General CommentShe's reminiscing about a love that she had during the time and it brings her "summertime sadness." Like the stars miss the sun in the morning skyĮven if you're gone, I'm gonna drive, (drive) drive I got that summertime, summertime sadness Nothing scares me anymore (one, two, three, four) Telephone wires above are sizzlin' like a snare Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlightĭone my hair up real big, beauty queen style
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