Back to December (TV)

“So if the chain is on your door I understand”

The chained door as the sign of a welcome withdrawn. The speaker grants the addressee the right to keep it fastened, reading the latch as the fair measure of the trust she spent.

“I watched you laughin' from the passenger side”

Watching him from the passenger side as the angle of regret; she is the passenger now, looking across at what she let go.

“I miss your tanned skin, your sweet smiles”

Among the remembered details of the lost love, the sweet smiles return as what regret keeps.

“You gave me roses and I left them there to die”

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