![]() Once he realizes the gravity of the situation and what he's done, he's hit by the guilt of their actions and exclames "Get behind me! but she treated this gift with disregard."Your lips taste sour".this is explaning the guilt he feels when he kisses her.he's pulled in by her beauty but then recoils because he knows he shouldn't be kissing her.she's naive and inexperienced so she take's this the wrong way and thinks he's just teasing her."But you think that it's me just teasing you". Your lips taste sour But you think that it's me just teasing you".this is talking about the "flower" she was given at birth.again her virginity is seen as a flower (common litirary metaphor). But I guess there was just no pleasing you. There's one line in the lyrics on this site that should actually read "Try keep the truth from showing up" which is explaning the guy's denial of the situation before he has sex with her.he's basically aware of her young age ar atleast suspicious of it but doesn't want to know or face the truth until it's too late and they've had their sexual encounter. Up untill then he ignored the consequences of taking her virginity.the White Orchid reference is to purity and her virginity and the fact that she gave it away too easily to this older man.she "took a white orchid and turned it blue".she essentially cast a new color on this once pure flower.a point further punctuated by the fact that "Blue Orchid" is the title of the song. How do we know he's singing about a young girl? Well, the lines "How dare you? How old are you now anyway? explane how the guy feels duped and conned into being seduced buy this beautiful young girl.I think that after his sexual encounter with her, he see's the situation with greater clarity and realizes what has really happened. You got a reaction, didn't you?" This is pointing toward some provocative action of a young girl.(may she was dressed to entice or spoke in a provocative way.we don't know for sure and this is really incidental). The song begins as a reflection upon something bad or regretful that has already happened with "You got a reaction. ![]() This establishes the whole "temptation" thing. He then spoke the same words, “Get thee behind me, Satan,” to Peter. Jesus saw Peter as a tempter, trying to talk him out of doing what he was put on Earth to do. He told his disciples that he would have to be killed and then raised from the dead, and Peter objected that this should not happen. Second, Jesus spoke these words on another occasion. This is a clear rebuke of evil and temptation. This has two significant biblical references and was the reply that Jesus made when Satan offered him all the kingdoms of the world if Jesus would worship him. The song is full of references to temptation and makes a Biblical reference in the line "get behind me" as in "get behind me Satan" (the album title also). Here's my take: First off: The song is about the temptation of a man by a young woman. I'm not saying its wrong, that's the beauty of music, it has different meaning to us all.I think Jack's way to clever to go down that path anyway. I feel that the whole Jason Stollsteimer interpretation is ignoring some key lyrical elements. Saying he is done with her, also maybe a play on the album title, "get behind me Satan" playing the girl as Satan?Ī second opinion as to what it may be about is the media, turning there life sour after they made it big. Self explanatory(I don't know how pregnancy or sex is nesseccarily related here?)īasically, I gave you everything and you just can't be happy? Her lips are starting to taste sour and unpleasant, and she thinks it he is joking. Then he is just saying how childish she is.īut you think that it's just me teasing you" He stayed withher anyways, lying to himself, because at least then he had something, which was better than nothing.īasically saying that he is done with it. Something better than nothing, it's giving up He is talking about giving a girl something beautiful and pure llike love and not appreciating it. "you took a white orchard, you took a white orchard turned it bblue" It is about a bad relationship, feeling used really. Since when was this song about so much sex?
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