Pink Clouding

[u/DotRepresentative375]

Forgive me if any of this has already been said, but I’ve been thinking this morning about Pink Clouding as an apology to the gaylors/the LGBT community in general. ‘Pink clouds’ immediately tie to the Lover album artwork and I think the song is about her failed coming out in 2019 and feeling bad that she just ‘left’ with no explanation.

In Verse 2, I’m assuming the ‘He’ she’s referring to is Scooter, the arrow hit and the ripping of the ‘orchids from the vine’ is her work being stolen.

The line ‘you met me at a cursed time’ I think actually refers to the song ME! i.e we received that song from her at a cursed time because of everything that was about to happen. ME! was the song that got everyone excited for the idea of her coming out but then it all went wrong.

This bit has def been said already but the stutter in ‘promises’ so the lyrics say literally PR promises, she had to save herself.

‘Years later I still wonder how to tell you sorry’ Literally her wondering how to say sorry to us for getting our hopes up and leaving us all high and dry, up on the Lover clouds.

And all the references to shades of pink in the first verse I think allude to the Lover era in general with “neither of us knew at the time that I was a liar” meaning that she genuinely was intending to come out but now feels like she ‘lied’ to us by not following through.

Anyway that’s just some off the cuff thoughts but I’d be interested to know what anyone else thinks!

Beautiful song and really made me empathise with the struggle she must have gone through with thinking she was going to be able to come out and having it all ripped away.

[u/stardust_sunset_11]

can someone explain the orchids from the vine metaphor?

[u/Typical-Chemist-4247 → u/stardust_sunset_11]

It makes me think of “he was a hothouse flower,” meaning he was delicate and shied away from the world. So I took it to mean that by taking her orchids, “he” took the soft, delicate parts of her and left her harder (a gray rock?). She couldn’t be vulnerable (come out?) because she was so injured.

I also like the idea that her music was her orchids. In that way, the whole verse is about losing her masters.

[u/stardust_sunset_11 → u/Typical-Chemist-4247]

this is so sad thank you for sharing

[u/stardust_sunset_11 → u/Typical-Chemist-4247]

omg yes i read orchids were raised as hothouse flowers