I Cut My Teeth On Wedding Rings

I cut my teeth on wedding rings.

Basically she s saying her experience in love is coming. Biting a precious metal and then looking at it to check for teeth marks was a common person. Cut my teeth is a phrase used to describe where one learns about something. I ve never seen a diamond in the flesh i cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies and i m not proud of my address in a torn up town no postcode envy but every song s like gold teeth grey goose trippin in the bathroom bloodstains ball gowns trashin the hotel room we don t care we re driving cadillacs in our dreams but everybody s like cristal maybach diamonds on your timepiece jet.

To cut ones teeth is a metaphor for gaining experience in something new. I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies and i m not proud of my address in a torn up town no postcode envy but every song s like gold teeth grey goose trippin in the bathroom blood stains ball gowns trashin the hotel room we don t care we re driving cadillacs in our dreams but everybody s like cristal maybach diamonds on your. Cutting her teeth on wedding rings in the movies is a way to say she learned about wedding rings and fancy things from watching movies. I ve never seen a diamond in the flesh i cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies and i m not proud of my address in the torn up town no post code envy.

Essentially lorde learned all she knows from the movie stars and their diamonds like most impressionable teenagers. Cutting teeth means the same as how someone gained experience she s not proud that she has to bring attention to this fact of where she has lived coming from a torn up town or messed up area. The teen has become aware that she has been stereotyped and is assumed to want to marry into money because she is poor and cannot afford to go to college. Lyrics to royals by lorde.