Been listening to/thinking about the song "Parentheses" by the Blow lately, and remembered something that's always bugged me about the song. It's a minor complaint, as the song is like 99.99% perfect—that echoing, shuffling pre-murder-Phil Spector backbeat; the squiggling guitars; Khaela Maricich's voice, bare and close enough that it sounds like it's coming from two feet away rather than from some laptop studio somewhere in Oregon; the idiosyncratic romantic lyrics.

Except, something about the chorus bothers me:

And when you're holding me
we make a pair of parentheses.
There's plenty space to encase
whatever weird way my mind goes,
I know I’ll be safe in these arms.

Aw, cute. Right? Wrong! Now, again, this is like a 0.01% kind of complaint, because that chorus is amazing. But here's the problem as I see it:

A pair of parantheses encasing plenty of space looks like this:

(plenty of space)

But if we're talking about people as punctuation, wouldn't two parentheses holding each other look like:

))

You know, like people spooning? (You don't "hold" someone with only feet and faces touching; yes, I know they make a go of it in the above video, but, look, they're not even touching! Or are you supposed to be standing with arms around each others shoulders and leaning your hips out in opposite dirctions?) And but so if you're spooning, then where does the "plenty of space" go?

)plenty of space)

That doesn't look right at all.

And isn't "))" already the Miranda July symbol for a butt, as in "back and forth forever"?

Is "parantheses" just a handy half-rhyme for "me"?

(I HAVE QUESTIONS!(