A Lack of Color

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Death Cab for Cutie has a song called A Lack of Color, and one stanza stands out to me especially as relating to aspie/autie relationships:

"If you feel discouraged
That there's a lack of color here
Please don't worry lover
It's really bursting at the seams
For absorbing everything
The spectrum's A to Z"

Do you think that's accurate? What are your opinions?

I don't understand it really.

The first two lines I understand and I can feel what they author is saying. Symbolically I agree even though when I feel discouraged I like to go to places with lots of color because they make me feel better. But as far as color meaning spice of life or something rather than literal color, that is accurate for me.

"Please don't worry lover, it's really bursting at the seams" I think it means that the colors are still there, meaning that even though I might be discouraged that the colors, or the spice of life has not gone, they are still there, I just need to find them again.

"For absorbing every thing, the Spectrum's A to Z, " I don't really know what that means. Maybe it means that even though you think the colors of life are gone when you are discouraged they are really not and they are there for the taking and for you to absorb them back. But that is the same thing I thought the previous line meant.

I don't know, I'm just guessing. But the cool thing about poetry is that who cares what the author's intent was unless you are in a poetry class and are doing an assignment or unless that is important to you. It can mean whatever the heck you want it to mean. If you feel it and relate to it in a certain way, then that is what it means to you.

This kind of reminds me of a story I heard about a guy who was visiting a Picasso exhibit. Picasso's granddaughter(?) I think it was his granddaughter but it might not of been, but it was a close relative of his, well, she was guiding the tour. After they looked at a few paintings the guy said, "I don't get it. These paintings just look like a bunch of lines and that one certainly does not look anything like a woman." When Picasso's granddaughter(?) heard him, she walked over to him to talk to him and he was really nervous that he had greatly offended her. Well he was pleasantly shocked when she told him that she felt exactly the same way and that she was so happy that someone else felt that way too and was bold enough to be honest about it. Maybe he was an Aspie!

I think the first half refers to a lack of feedback and obvious emotion that makes the other person think you aren't interested or lack passion in the relationship. The second half is saying that you are far more interested/passionate than most, absorbing every detail.

I think it's accurate for me.

I think you understood it better than I did. I would make a terrible poetry teacher! LOL!!