What does the song Hide and Seek mean?

Answer 1

I think it's about a woman at the end of a relationship, and it wasn't her choice for it to be over. "The dust has only just begun to fall" suggests that the worst is yet to come. One lyric confused me.."Crop circles in the carpet". You know how when you move a table that has been on a carpet for a long time and there's an indention? I think it's sort of a way of seeing signs of what once was. "Oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung before" is either a literal representation of where pictures used to hang, or maybe just, again, her nostalgia of the relationship remaining. The title "Hide and Seek" , to me, suggests that she never really knew the man she loved. Then, at the very end of the song, she says "Mm, what'd you say? That you only meant well? Well of course you did. Mm whatd you say, Mm that it's all for the best, and you decided this?" shows that it was the guy's decision to end it. "What did she say?" suggests another woman's involvement. Go figure.