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May 26th 2015!⃝My rock candy passion is bittersweet/
And armed to the teeth/
'Cause she would rather fall in chocolate/
Than fall in love, especially with me/
I think this phrase refers to a crush he has on a girl, but she doesn't return the feelings (passion; bittersweet;). Since he found out that she doesn't feel the same way (bottom 2 lines), in an effort to avoid embarrassment he keeps his crush as a well-protected secret(armed to the teeth).
I stood under the waterfall/
With a Kiwi pineapple parasol/
As Cinderella dropped the crystal ball/
And made a concrete cavern/
A caterpillar concert hall/
The lyrics in this phrase are probably the most obscure in the entire song. The way I think of it, he is off fantasizing about the girl (top 2 lines) and she is the center of attention wherever she goes (Cinderella was the "belle" of the ball in the story).
I wish that we could sail our sad days away/
forever/
In deep blue seas of paper-mache/
Let's dance in the moonlight/
This is part of his daydream about the girl that he can't have (sailing away in deep blue seas; dancing in the moonlight). Sort of like a romantic date on a cruise ship. Or, a yacht. :)
A barracuda chased our dog days away/
forever/
Let's sink or swim 'til we fall in love/
And dance in the moonlight/
When we join the yacht club/
I'm not sure what the lyric about the barracuda means, but the other lyrics in this phrase are pretty self-explanatory.
I would rather go swimming with great white sharks/
Than wade in romance/
'Cause I can never find the courage/
To ask her to dinner or even to dance/
He knows that the girl doesn't have any interest in him, but even though he wants to take a chance and tell her how he feels, he can't find the courage to do so.
Don't sweat under your overcoat/
'Cause my heart can't harbor this paddle boat/
You'll hit the bottom of the highest note/
And the chatty tree frogs/
Will never wanna leave your throat/
This is another set of very obscure lyrics, and to be honest I am really not at all sure what they mean. However, I think that the 2nd line means that his heart is really yearning for this girl's affections and it's really beating him down. Think about it, what does a paddle boat do when it's in the water? It repeatedly churns the water and propels it out the back of the boat.
Let go of the world you know/
And plug in the party lights/
Soak your cares in the solar flares/
That light up these island nights/
More daydreaming. :)
Orange eclipse, I can taste your lips/
In the citrus afternoon/
If you can fly, don't stop at the sky/
'Cause there's footprints on the moon/
He is fantasizing about kissing the girl in the first 2 lines. The bottom 2 lines are actually quite beautiful. He is basically saying that even though things don't always end up as you want them too, it's okay to let your imagination run away.
I hope that my interpretation made sense and that it gave you a new way of looking at this song. :)
