| Oh Land – Perfection Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I have a much darker take on this song. I completely see where jumpp12 is coming from in his/her interpretation. Especially when taking the first part of the song into account. However- what could simply be a girl singing about forcing herself to assume an entirely different identity to please her lover is taken in an entirely different light in concern with the following verse of the song: "Who would've known that after hunting you down She would leave all the bones for me. And who would've thought that she could leave someone like you Left a part of herself. You know how I speak, how I try to imitate The way she lays her head on your shoulder And you got nothing more to say Down to every detail I won't miss a day Cause I know all her lines, her favorite things And how her restless mind keeps her up in the night until the light Will come and stand here try to catch her eyes" To me this changes the entire story. Now instead of simply being a completely internal fabrication it comes off as something sinister. She's stalking someone. The girlfriend of the man she desires. She is studying every move, every mannerism, every detail of this girl. Perfecting what she assumes is the ideal personality in order to replace the girl. "Who would've known that after hunting you down She would leave all the bones for me. And who would've thought that she could leave someone like you" This sounds like she is consoling the man for the sudden "loss" of his girlfriend. The following lyrics describe how she is now imitating all the girlfriend's actions, showing him that, although the other girl may be missing, SHE is here and- look at that!- she is almost exactly the same. So no need to worry. To me this isn't so much a song about a girl feeling the need to change herself to meet someone else's expectations then it is the eerie, sinister story of a girl who stalks a couple, memorizes everything about the girl, and then kills her only to replace the girl when the man feels like her sudden disappearance means she left him. Either interpretation is fantastic really, but I feel my own view takes more of the actual song into account. It's harder to make sense of the words in the second verse if it were something solely in her head. I mean the case can be made- but I really enjoy the idea of such a gorgeous, sweet, orchestral song having such a dark and horrible meaning. |
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