“Pink Light,” track seven on Saves the World, uses symbolic imagery to explore what might have been between the song’s speaker and its subject. The subject is “indifferent” to the speaker’s affection, while the speaker “can’t help thinking…if you’d seen the soft pink light/I wouldn’t be alone tonigh...
[Intro]
Are you happy?
[Verse 1]
So I let it happen again
I loved someone who's indifferent
That's why I can't sleep at night
That's why I keep sleeping in
So I started over again
I got back onto that medicine
That's why I keep sleeping in
I don't like when dreaming ends
[Pre-Chorus]
But there's a pink light in my apartment
It comes mid-morning as a reminder
That at the right time, in the right surroundings
I will be lovely, but I can't help thinking
[Chorus]
That maybe if you stayed for an hour or two
When the sun came up, when I last saw you
Maybe if you'd seen the soft pink light
I wouldn't be alone tonight
[Verse 2]
So I'm living inside my mind
I keep retracing that storyline
Thinking, if I start again
I can change the way it ends
[Pre-Chorus]
And there's a pink light in my apartment
It comes mid-morning as a reminder
That at the right time, in the right surroundings
I will be lovely, but I can't help thinking
[Chorus]
That maybe if you stayed for an hour or two
When the sun came up, when I last saw you
Maybe if you'd seen the soft pink light
I wouldn't be alone tonight
[Post-Chorus]
Tonight, tonight
Alone tonight
[Bridge]
Maybe I will always keep
A little piece of this belief
If it isn't you who sees
Then there isn't any pink light in my apartment
It comes mid-morning as a reminder
[Chorus]
That maybe if you stayed for an hour or two
When the sun came up, when I last saw you
Maybe if you'd seen the soft pink light
I wouldn’t be alone tonight
[Post-Chorus]
Tonight, tonight
Alone tonight
Tonight, tonight
Pink Light was written by MUNA.
Pink Light was produced by MUNA & Mike Crossey.
MUNA released Pink Light on Fri Sep 06 2019.