She Dreams in Red

justam

Lizard wrote:

I figured it out and we are ALL wrong!!

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My husband made up a funny variation about a peppermint.

lorilei

solat and elbereth, i think you guys are both right! good points.

SOLAT319

Betterman is always fun to discuss lyrics-wise

dimitrispearljam

i suppose it means that she dreams not in black and white as people do the most of the times...she dreams in color she dream in red which is a very intense color for we understand the strong fellings about the whole story..

State of Mind

lowenan wrote:

I always thought of it as related to blood.

Dreams in color (which could be anything, even the best of dreams, but she...)
dreams in red (dreams of something bad, dreams of how she gets beaten)

I thought the dreams in red was something bad too, but not of her getting beaten but that, since she is (possibly) in an abusive relationship that she was dreaming of doing the beating, thus causing her dream to be red (drawing blood). I picture her as being angry and getting revenge but can only do it in her dreams. The dreams in color makes me think of intensity and the dreams in red makes me think of violence, but that it will not occur, only in her dreams.

megatron

just from the song i always assumed it was dreams in color referred to dreams of something, someone better..
and red as anger..
kinda simple but thats just how what i always assumed

verbtotrust4130

I may be way off base here. When I hear it I think that she dreams in color means that, as many people have said, she is daydreaming vividly about the way she imagined her life going. But also, I think that when "she dreams in red," that it could be more than one meaning. I think it is saying that she is pissed off, and also maybe that she wants him dead or she wishes that she could kill him. The reason she doesn't kill him is because she can't find a betterman-- kind of the meaning of the whole song-- women get caught in these terrible relationships but they don't get out of them sometimes not only for fear but also because they feel like nobody else would ever want them, and that they are so down that they just don't think things could get any better.
Like I said, I may be way off base but I wish that she was thinking of hurting him. I don't want all wife beaters to be killed on the spot or anything, but I think they should all get the ass-kicking of all ass-kickings.

TDMize15

RACE THAT CANT BE WON wrote:

just from the song i always assumed it was dreams in color referred to dreams of something, someone better..
and red as anger..
kinda simple but thats just how what i always assumed

My interpretation as well.

She dreams in color: Meaning she dreams of exciting and better things.

She dreams in red: Anger, she dreams of getting back at him, getting out of the relationship. I get this from the tone in which he sings that line as well.

Just how I've always viewed it. Either way... it's a pretty damn poetic and beautiful line.

Stove

I used to this it was "she dreams him, cause she dreams of me." Def a personal song and in the ear of the listener. Red as a color is supposedly passion. I view as emotional. The abuse is an interesting idea. I had never thought of it that way.