A shot by shot analysis of âa pearlâ by mitski as it relates to the character âpearlâ from Steven universe
You're growing tired of me (rose was growing tired of pearl when she met Greg and others. Also relates to spinel being left in the garden)
You love me so hard and I still can't sleep ( their relationship made pearl restless probably. Gems donât sleep. Pearl often watches Steven sleep)
You're growing tired of me, And all the things I don't talk about (pearl dosent want to admit that rose was a bad person)
Sorry, I don't want your touch, It's not that I don't want you, Sorry, I can't take your touch ( prior to them fusing, pearl likely yearned for rose but didnât act out of fear of being shattered.)
It's just that I fell in love with a war (gem war, pearl was the best warrior in the crystal gems, one of the last ones left)
Nobody told me it ended (pearl holds onto war memories [see: a single pale rose])
And it left a pearl in my head (pearls gem is in her head)
And I roll it around every night, Just to watch it glow (I see this as rose played with pearl and her feelings, dictated her life before and even after becoming rose, albeit maybe unconsciously)
Every night, baby, that's where I go (pearl thinks about rose a lot much)
Sorry, I don't want your touch, It's not that I don't want you, Sorry, I can't take your touch, There's a hole that you fill, You fill, you fill (pearl wanted rose to fill her holeđ
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But it's just that I fell in love with a war, And nobody told me it ended, And it left a pearl in my head, And I roll it around every night, Just to watch it glow, Every night, baby, that's where I go, Just to watch it glow