Wildflower

In this song, Victoria imagines herself as the Wildflower – something unintentional and organic.

Every verse in this song can be interpreted as maintaining disbelief in god whilst finding meaning in a deeply held passion or goal.

There is nothing better (no better color) than what your eyes (and by extension, all of your senses) can see. The shadows, your regrets, and the difficulties of everyday life will never be conquered by a divine intervention.

This verse could also refer to depression. Someone looking everywhere for revitalization in the form of a new color (a passion, a lover, a drug, etc.), but still coming home to the same personal demons and unhappy state of affairs each night.

The triangle of every light is a reference to the third eye. The third eye (also called the mind’s eye, or inner eye) is a mystical and esoteric concept of a speculative invisible eye that provides perception beyond ordinary sight. Legrand is signaling that the city built in the subject’s head is the entirety of their consciousness. Being “turned on every night” is representative of them occupying a body and experiencing the human condition.

The subject’s ambitions are not enough, they need a companion and their prayers –– their support in actualizing the subject’s dreams and the reassurance that their dreams are not unrealistic or asinine.

What is left of life and the potential to achieve the subject’s goals, the couple are not going to waste. They are not going to rely on (want nothing of) what is above the sky (God, promise of heaven), and need only themselves and their companion.

Annotations on Genius by:
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