| Bright Eyes – Lua Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Sorry if this has already been said but the song is about "a way to live". About escapism. It's about life as a depressed addict. Life as Conor. This song is very honest and I think that's why it resonates so much with so many. It's about the night life. People use each other, everyone lives in a fantasy, when we all wake up from the fantasy we have to face reality again and it is awful. The first verse is about the night time drug induced fantasy world but from a realistic perspective. What's really happening. They are tolerating a freezing walk to appease their addictions, desperately seeking a party to continue their fantasy, rejected by taxis (society). The next verse is abut the next morning.. the sober time in between drinking and drugs. For an addict it's lonely, all those friends he had the night before are gone and he's left with his reflection and a pigeon. The facade he builds to gain acceptance at night is gone by morning when he sobers up. The fantasy he has created of himself disappears when he awakes from his intoxication and he is forced to face himself and reality. The next verse shows him using someone else. As I said before, this life is shallow and selfish and he is just like the rest, he is no better. He is lying to a girl to use her, promising love that he does not have to give, knowing he will leave her but leading her to believe otherwise. Giving her a fantasy to lose herself in only to awake to the reality that he was using her. The next verse can be interpreted as bulimia, addiction, whatever. As someone else said, self destruction regardless. Next verse, again, this is all escapism. These people are trying to escape themselves with a facade, with medication, drugs, alcohol, whatever. So much so that they are falling unconscious, blacking out from drinking so much. They might die from what they're doing but it doesn't matter because they are self destructive and in too much emotional pain to care. In the next verse, "I'm not sure what the trouble was that started all of this. The reasons all have run away but the feelings never did" to me sounds like he's trying to say he doesn't know exactly what caused his depression. Was it parenting? School? His own bodily chemistry? There's no reasoning behind his feelings, he's just completely going off emotions and the emotions are negative. He repeats so simple in the moonlight because he yearns for the escapist's world where all the pain is gone. He wants that to be his reality, he hates reality. |
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