I really LOVELOVELOVE this song
The narrator isn't naïve.
She sees the cracks. She recognizes the danger.
But instead of trying to fix it, she chooses to stay and observe.
This isn't a song about saving someone.
It's a song about accepting that some people are not meant to be saved by you
The love here is quiet, restrained, and painfully aware.
No screaming. No dramatic collapse.
Just the calm understanding that intimacy doesn't always mean safety and attraction doesn't require honesty.
In the end, Watercolour Eyes speaks about emotional maturity at its coldest point:
knowing exactly who someone is,
knowing exactly how this will end,
and staying anyway
not because you believe in a happy ending,
but because you've stopped believing that love exists to rescue anyone

Loving an addict
means staying after surprise is gone.
The instability, the lies, the slow erosion
they're no longer shocking.
You don't misunderstand them.
You understand them too well.
So you stay- not to save, not to heal,
but because distance feels more honest than hope.