Discover the story of the song > Yellow Flicker Beat – Lorde

The protagonist is describing herself as smooth like marble with scars that look like silver and gold on her body. She says her blood is like rubies and keeps her veins hot. People talk to her but nothing ever hits home and she feels like she is slipping out of reach. She is locking 'up everyone who ever laid a finger on me' and the song is about the start of something new, but also the end of something old.