| Morphine – In Spite of Me Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[christopherso:25744] Remember that he's a moderately successful musician himself so this could quite easily be written about/for someone real...a letter to express that he still loves her, how important their time together was to him, wouldn't change how much he put into her, and is pathetically not angry but just hurt and confused at how she has reduced him to the anger and fighting in the final days as she was struggling with leaving him to jump to the next level of success. | |
| Morphine – In Spite of Me Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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This is one of my all time favourite songs because it hits really close to home. I think the writer was in a relationship with a very ambitious, narcissistic and ungrateful woman. He poured all of his energy into her and helping her succeed in an attempt to earn recognition and love which she didn't give (enough). When she started taking off and outgrowing what he could do for her, her eroded with his future value to her career. He hung on to her more and more desperately, which, because she was already emotionally leaving made her more and more angry and treat him worse and worse as she began to see him as a lead weight, until she just upgraded partners and gave her "love" to someone else that was much more valuable to the next level of career success. She just discarded him. No recognition, or gratitude, or appreciation for how big a part he played in her history and current success and only remembers how angry he made her because he was too pathetic to just let go and fade away when she was done with him. And as he's grieving and drinking alone and telling a stranger how pivotal a role he played in this person's career advancement, he's so broken and hollow that the stranger just smiles and pity's him in disbelief. |
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