Owl City: Dear Vienna Meaning

Dear Vienna Lyrics

Dear Vienna
I regarded the world as such a sad sight
Until I viewed it in black and white
Then I reviewed every frame and basic shape
And sealed the exits with caution tape
(Dear Vienna)
Don't refocus your eyes in the darkness
And don't...

1. anonymous

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   Jun 5th 2011 !⃝

   "I regarded the world as such a sad sight, until I viewed it in black and white"
   This is basically saying that he viewed the world as a sad, hopeless place until he viewed it in 'black and white', or a different perspective, and realized how much color an hope there really was.
   
   "Then I reviewed every frame and basic shape, and seale the exits with caution tape."
   Now he looks at the world through many different perspectives and is saying that the world is in bad shape, but there is hope to fix it.
   
   "Don't refocus your eyes in the darkness, and don't remember this place unless, I describe all the things that you cannot see, and we'll unravel the mystery"
   He is telling someone (Vienna) to not just look at the darkness and evil in the world, and to forget about it unless he tells her about all the good things and hope buried within the darkness an evil and they'll undertand how to bring that hope into light.
   
   "Farewell, all my friends in textbooks, I'm going home, 'cause my blood cells cannot depend on the weather in photographs"
   He is saying goodbye to his friends of the past and returning to actuality because he can't find the happiness he needs in old photographs or memories.
   
   "There's a light show out my window somewhere way up there. Dear Vienna, are you singing? Dear Vienna, are you swinging? Dear Vienna, we were happy like the shades of May when we got carried away"
   There is hope (stars) out there somewhere. He is asking someone (Vienna) if she sees the hope that he sees. Vienna is one of the people (or the only person) that he was stuck in the past with in the photographs or memories.
   
   "I was so far out of place, watching those stars in outer space, 'cause I am so far from where you are"
   I was so far away from reality, stuck in the past and waiting for hope to take action, so far away from Vienna who was living in happiness.
   
   :) Well that's how I interpreted it.
2. anonymous

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   Jun 4th 2011 !⃝

   There are so many different ways someone could interpret these amazing lyrics!
   
   "Farewell, all my friends in textbooks, I'm going home
   'Cause my blood cells cannot depend on the weather in photographs"
   
   To me, this part of the song talks about how someone is living in a dream\story\fantasy (or even just the past) and decides to move on because they realize that they are wasting their life in a dream\story when there are things waiting for them in real life, "There's a light show out my window, somewhere way up there".
   
   And again with this part:
   
   "I was so far out of place watching those stars in outer space,
   'Cause I am so far from where you are
   There's a light show out my window, somewhere way up there"
   
   They realize how 'out of place' they were by focusing on the stars in the story\dream\fantasy\etc. when they have a 'light show' of stars waiting for them outside their window.
   
   That was just my personal interpretation. I also wonder if he is talking about Vienna the city. That would definetly make sense to me too. Like I said these lyrics can be interperted is so many different ways and none of them are wrong. :)
3. anonymous

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   Apr 16th 2011 !⃝

   It sounds to me like he's talking about his dead, blind girlfriend. That's how I interpreted it....
4. anonymous

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   Apr 14th 2011 !⃝

   Farewell all my friends in text books??? I dont get it.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
5. anonymous

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   Oct 3rd 2010 !⃝

   think the 'Dear Vienna' refers to this being a letter he's writing to a girl named Vienna. He's tells of how he was extremely depressed when he focused on the evil and death in the world, rather than the good and the life. He instead focuses on the details of life, and that helps him feel better about this fleeting existence.

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