Out of the Woods

“Are we out of the woods yet, are we out of the woods?”

A catalogue observation marking the Redemption theme in this song. The full reading will follow when Out of the Woods is the discussion's seed song.

“The rest of the world was black and white but we were in screaming color”

Black and white is everything ordinary and drained of feeling, set hard against the screaming colour of being with him. The monochrome stands for the flat life outside the relationship, sharpening how vivid the love felt by comparison.

“The rest of the world was black and white but we were in screaming color”

Set beside the screaming colour of the romance, black and white is the drained ordinary world outside it. White sits inside that flat monochrome, everything dull until the relationship floods it with colour.

“You took a Polaroid of us, then discovered the rest of the world was black and white but we were in screaming color”

Full analytical context awaits the Out of the Woods episode extraction.

In the song's music video the speaker plunges into the sea and is nearly drowned, the descent washing away the relationship she is fighting to survive - the same water-as-cleansing image Clean turns into lyric. Here the drowning is staged rather than sung.

“Remember when you hit the brakes too soon?”

Braking too soon as the relationship's accident remembered; the sudden stop marks the moment it went wrong, the car the site of the near-crash.