Warm Wet Circles
Fish Lyrics

On promenades where drunks propose to lonely arcade mannequins
In public places where intoxicated people offer marriage to mannequins, meant for display in arcade stores, that seem to be all alone.

Where ceremonies pause at the jeweler's shop display
Jewelry and gift shops often act as a waiting room or a display place for the couples halting momentarily in the midst of their sublime festivities.

Feigning casual silence in strained romantic interludes
As couples engaged in amorous settings are trying hard to create a casual silence with an intentional effort, despite a lot of pressure and expectations building up.

Till they commit themselves to the muted journey home
Until couples commit themselves to leave the place and head towards their homes, feeling silent and speechless.

And the pool player rests on another cue
The person playing billiards takes rest or pause, while switching to another cue in the middle of the game.

Last nights hero picking up his dues
The center of attention or the hero of last night collects and pays his due or debt.

A honeymoon gambled on a ricochet
A honeymoon trip marked with uncertainties and risks, like the unpredictable and erratic trajectory of a ricocheting bullet.

She's staring at the brochures at the holidays
A woman, absorbed in a state of looking at the brochures showcasing holiday destinations or vacation packages.

Chalking up a name in your hometown
Adding and marking someone's name on a surface, like a chalkboard, in a person's hometown.

Standing all your mates to another round
A person is offering to buy drinks for all their friends or mates for another round of drinking at a bar or pub.

Laughing at the world till the barman wipes away
Making fun of or mocking the whole world, until the barman or the bartender shooes everyone out of the bar or pub.

The warm wet circles
The water droplets formed on drinking glasses or surfaces due to the condensation, giving a warm and wet feeling, like tears or bodily fluids.

I saw teenage girls like gaudy moths a classroom's shabby butterflies
Observing teenage girls fluttering and moving around like flashy moths and dull-colored butterflies inside a shabby classroom.

Flirt in the glow of stranded telephone boxes
Indulging in activities like flirting, surrounded by the bright light originating from public phone booths or telephone boxes, which appear to be deserted.

Planning white lace weddings from smeared hearts
With their hearts in turmoil and chaos, the girls are deeply and sincerely planning their wedding gown, made of white colored laces.

And token proclamations, rolled from stolen lipsticks
Girls writing down their love messages or claims using lipsticks they stole from someone, as a mere token or symbol of their affectionate feelings.

Across the razored webs of glass
Highlighting the score marks, slashes or broken boundaries marked by the shattered pieces of glass.

Sharing cigarettes with experience with her giggling
Sharing cigarettes to gain some experience in the act of smoking, amidst all the laughing and giggling.

Jealous confidantes, she faithfully traces his name
The secret keeper of someone's innermost thoughts or feelings, who is extremely envious and protects the secrets, is writing someone's name carefully and truthfully.

With quick bitten fingers
The person is writing with fast and forceful bites of their fingers.

Through the tears of condensation that`ll cry through the night
The water droplets resulting from the condensation can symbolize tears that'll flow throughout the night.

As the glancing headlights of the last bus kiss adolescence goodbye
The sudden and brief appearance of the last bus glimpsed by the teenage girls could represent the final departure or farewell to their teenage years.

In a warm wet circle
People are indulging in a passionate and intimate act in a place where the condensation forms a warm and wet circle.

Like a mother's kiss on your first broken heart, a warm wet circle
The warm and wet circles can be compared to the sweet and comforting kiss given by a mother after a child's first heartbreak.

Like a bullethole in Central Park, a warm wet circle
The warm and wet circles could be akin to the effects of bullets penetrating through the human flesh, as it did in Central Park, New York City.

And I`ll always surrender to the warm wet circles
The singer is willingly conceding, time and again, to the rapturous and passionate moments of the warm and wet circles.

She nervously undressed in the dancing beams of the Fidra lighthouse
A woman is slowly and nervously taking off her clothes in front of the flickering and dancing light beams of a lighthouse named Fidra.

Giving it all away before it's too late
The woman is giving herself fully and completely, without any reservation, before it's too late.

She'll let a lover's tongue move in a warm wet circle
The woman is allowing her lover's tongue to move, in a rapturous and passionate manner, in a warm and wet circle.

Giving it all away and showing no shame
She's giving herself entirely and without hesitation, with no fear or shame of possible judgement or criticism.

She'll take a mother's kiss on her first broken heart
The woman whom we met earlier will later take a comforting kiss from her own mother, after suffering her first heartbreak.

A warm wet circle, she'll realize that she plays her part in a warm wet circle
The woman experiencing the passion of warm and wet circles, realizing that this is her part or the role she has to play in these borderline-sexual, intimate acts.