What do you think Pink Bullets means?

The Shins - Pink Bullets Meaning

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Pink Bullets Lyrics

I was just bony hands as cold as a winter pole
You held a warm stone out new flowing blood to hold
Oh what a contrast you were
To the brutes in the halls
My timid young fingers held a decent animal.

Over the ramparts you tossed
The scent of your...

  1. anonymous
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    Oct 8th 2011 !⃝

    I think it's about the writers first relationship, a gay relationship in (an English?) high school with a foreign boy. A few close encounters seemed to last forever. But to finally fly apart they had to stop their feelings for each other. There is nothing like that now in the writer's life, only the memory. Now he is concerned with "adult" things like work (maybe making songs), and that whole piece of his life is over/gone. Sad.


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