Does the song White houses have to do with sex?

Question

The song white houses by vanessa carlton,listen to the bridge. it goes likes this:
My first time,
hard to explain, rush of blood,and a little bit of pain,
and on a cloudy day,
it's more common than you think.

Well i think it is. Do you?

Answer 1

From the link:

I think we all got the basics. Lets dissect the song though:

"Crashed on the floor when I moved in
This little bunk alone with some strange new friends
Stay up too late, and I'm too thin
We promise each other it's til the end "

She gets her first apt/house/pad/place with 5 of her friends. Its her first time living on her own. She's been staying up late and partying hard. Her friends and herself make a pact to be friends forever... blah blah.

"Now we're spinning empty bottles
It's the five of us
With pretty eyed boys girls die to trust "

5 of her friend PLUS "pretty eye'd boys" are playing spin the bottle. Whoever commented on the uneven ratio~

"Jenny screams out and it's no pose
'Cause when she dances she goes and goes
Beer through the nose on an inside joke
I'm so excited, I haven't spoken
And she's so pretty, and she's so sure
Maybe I'm more clever than a girl like her

Jenny is having a great time! Jenny is the "her." She is described as pretty and sure. What is she sure of? That the boy Vanessa likes actually likes herself (jenny). The boy, however, doesn't like Jenny. He likes vanessa, as we can tell by her statement "maybe im more cleaver." Its like Vanessa has found a way around the beauty.

"Maybe I'm a little bit over my head
I come undone at the things he said
And he's so funny in his bright red shirt
We were all in love and we all got hurt "

Sets up that Vanessa is falling for this guy. Her friend are also experiencing similar things.

" sneak into his car's black leather seat
The smell of gasoline in the summer heat
Boy, we're going way too fast
It's all too sweet to last

It's alright
And I put myself in his hands "

This is well... pretty intuative =D

"Maybe you were all faster than me
We gave each other up so easily
These silly little wounds will never mend "

She recognises that the friendship deteriorated over trivial things, and its partially all of their fault.

"I feel so far from where I've been
So I go, and I will not be back here again
I'm gone as the day is fading on white houses
I lie, put my injuries all in the dust
In my heart is the five of us "

She says she's grown up since then, and she won't return to those days. She is still very nostalgic about them though... she remembers the good and forgets the bad.

White houses are basically what people have mentioned before, symbols for a dreamlike perfect family and life. There isn't really this perfect life, though, anywhere. A white house is really just a mask, a fascade for a good life. Its not real. When she says she keeps her secrets in white houses, she means that she can pretend these things never happend.

Answer 2

As far as I can tell, the character in that song went to a house party with 4 other people, got drunk and lost her virginity to one of the guys after a spin the bottle game. The "white houses" are where these dark secrets are never told.

Answer 3

I don't think that's the WHOLE IDEA of the song, but I'm pretty sure that's what that part of the song is about. Listen to the verse and chorus right before the bridge, and you'll see that it does.

Answer 4

"It's approximately jealousy … wasting your virginity … residing in your possess," Carlton lately instructed MTV. "It's a tale that the majority men and women can relate to, that bankruptcy for your existence from sixteen to twenty-five, wherein you are attempting to determine who you're, and also you move by way of a lot of these triumphs and tragedies on a everyday groundwork, and the way they form you."

Answer 5

yes it does!
i heard an interview with her about it and she said it did.
i love that song<3

its about losing her virginity..and having sex the first time..and white houses symbolize purity and innocence.

Answer 6

ya i was just listening to that song and it does have something to do with sex.

Answer 7

cracking down the lane,

Answer 8

uh... yaaa its all in the second line