Lyric Analysis: Meet Virginia

The song identifies its writer to be a citizen of Virginia who is either very learned in history or whom was alive during the independence movement in the colonies. Virginia, a tremendously influential colony in the late 1700's, was late to break its loyalty to the Queen. In the end; however, it was Virginia's own plan for independence that pushed the movement through the Congress and gave birth to the Declaration of Independence. The identifying metaphors begin with the very first line: "She doesn't own a dress, her hair is always a mess [...] she's beautiful." The line points out that Virginia isn't traditional, but is still beautiful anyway and this is very true of early Virginia. 'She' at one point printed its legal currency on tobacco, and a majority of its citizens "Smoke[d] a pack a day" which wasn't frowned upon by the Government they instead found "that beautiful." Being as influential as it was in the late 1700's, it "never compromises" but still generally goes along with the mainstream "babies and surprises" which are symbolic for what the average person

"[T]he Queen" with the word queen capitalized is a direct reference to the British crown, which Virginia initially supports. However after "Think[ing] about her scene" she reconsiders and gets ready to get down and dirty by "pull[ing] back her hair as [she's screaming]" that she no longer supports the Queen. The line “She only drinks coffee at midnight, when the moment is not right” further supports this. At the last moment, just as the independence movement is about to be shot down in congress, Virginia rejuvenates it with its caffeinated announcement that supports the independence of the colonies. "Her timing is quite - unusual."

The final very powerful metaphor lives within the line "her confidence is tragic, but her intuition magic." This line implies that Virginia puts her confidence in something that will be very difficult to succeed in, and that may have tragic consequences, but in the end her intuition to do so yielded a magical result. In history terms, this translates to the war for independence that followed in the days after Virginia announces its support for the independence movement. There was no way to know that the America's would win the war, there was only confidence and magical intuition.