Dear John
- Dear John / Sad Beautiful Tragic (Eras Tour, London (Aug))
“The girl in the dress cried the whole way home”
“The girl in the dress wrote you a song”
“You paint me a blue sky, and go back and turn it to rain”
“Wondering which version of you I might get on the phone tonight”
“You paint me a blue sky and go back and turn it to rain”
the painted false sky
“You paint me a blue sky and go back and turn it to rain”
“Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest gray a universe away?” — coney island
Helen pairs Dear John's painted blue sky, given and then turned to rain, with coney island's 'did I paint your bluest skies the darkest gray a universe away?'. Both turn the sky into something one person paints for another and then darkens, the tender colour offered and withdrawn so the sky carries the whole arc of a feeling. Dear John casts the speaker as the one painted for; coney island turns the brush around and asks whether she did the same.