Question...?
- The Archer / Question...? (Eras Tour, Amsterdam)
“It was one drink after another”
the porch kiss wish, granted in a crowded room
“Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room And every single one of your friends was Making fun of you But 15 seconds later they were clapping too?”
“Will you kiss me on the porch In front of all your stupid friends?” — betty
Heard as the porch wish granted years on: betty's James asks for the public kiss in front of all the stupid friends, and Question...? remembers exactly that kiss, in a crowded room, the friends mocking and then applauding fifteen seconds later. The teenage dare and its adult memory face each other across the two records.
the colour you only saw once
“you painted all my nights a colour I've searched for since”
“But I've felt a hole like this / Never before and ever since” — loml
Readers connect loml's "never before and ever since" to Question…?, where the same once-and-never-again feeling is figured as a colour painted across her nights that she has searched for ever since — both songs measuring a love by a sensation it left and took.