Labelled with Love
Squeeze愀 Lyrics

She unscrews the top from her new whiskey bottle
The woman opens her brand new whiskey bottle.

Shuffles about in her candle lit hovel
She moves around her dimly lit, untidy home.

Like some kind of witch with blue fingers and mittens
She appears to be a witch, dressed in blue and wearing mittens.

She smells like a cat and the neighbors she sickens
Her smell is unpleasant, making her neighbors feel ill.

Black and white TV has long seen a picture
Her old television has a clear image, though it only shows in black and white.

The cross on the wall is a permanent fixture
A cross on her wall is a permanent decorative item.

The postman delivers the final reminders
She receives final notices from the postman.

She sells off her silver and poodles and in china
She sells her silver, poodles, and china pieces.

Drinks to remember
She drinks to recall memories.

I made it myself the chimes of the clock and the dust from the shelf
She made her whiskey from items she collected, including the dust on a shelf and the chimes of a clock.

Home is a love that I miss very much
She longs for the love she has for her home.

So the past has been bottled and labeled with love
She has preserved and cherished her memories of the past.

During the wartime and American pilot
During the war, she meets and falls in love with an American pilot.

Made every air-raid a time of excitement
The pilot made air-raids exciting for her.

She moved to his prairie and married a Texan
She moves to Texas and marries the pilot.

She looked from a distance our love was a lesson
She looks at their love from a distance and reflects on it as a lesson.

He became drinker and she became mother
The pilot becomes an alcoholic, while she becomes a mother.

She knew that one day she'd be one or the other
She knew that eventually she would either be a drinker or mother.

He ate himself older drunk himself dizzy
The pilot aged quickly and became habitually drunk.

Proud of her features she kept herself pretty
She takes pride in her appearance and makes an effort to stay attractive.

He like a cowboy died drunk in a slumber
The pilot died drunk, similar to how cowboys are often portrayed in movies.

Out on the porch in the middle of summer
He died on the porch in the summertime.

She crossed the ocean back home to her family
She returns home to her family, after the pilot's death.

But they had retired to roads that were sandy
However, her family has relocated to a coastal area.

She moved home alone without friends or relations
She moves back home alone without friends or family connections.

Lived in a world full of age reservations
She feels out of place in her old age.

A moth eaten object she'd say that she'd sod all her friends
She complains about being alone and having lost her friends.

Who had left her to drink from her bottle
She blames her friends for leaving her alone to drink from her bottle.

The past has been bottled and labeled with love
She repeats the refrain, emphasizing the importance of her cherished memories.