This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Mmm-mmm-mmm, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, ooh
Yeah, I feel I'm watered down
Whenever he's around
I put on the crown of clowns
And melt slowly to the ground
Yeah, I feel it coming on
When I've been static for too long
And an explosion comes in time
Before I go and cross the line
They say you used to be so kind
I never knew you had such a dirty mind
Well, I went to the doctors believing
The devil had control over me and
I was finding it hard to breathe in
Finding it hard to fight the feeling
When my heart just burst like a glass balloon
I let it fly too high and it shattered too soon
I was the wrong damn girl in the wrong damn room
I broke my glass balloon
I let go of my glass balloon
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
They call him Hermit the Frog
He's looking for a dog
Did you find your bitch in me?
Oh, you're abominable, socially
You're just a little bit too much like me
She says you used to be so kind
Well, baby, I give you your dirty mind
Well, I, I wanna tell you a secret
You can take your double standard love and keep it
I can't help the devil likes to make my heart a double bed
And I can't help he sometimes like to come
And rest his little head
When my heart just burst like a glass balloon
I let it fly too high and it shattered too soon
I was the wrong damn girl in the wrong damn room
I broke my glass balloon
I let go of my glass balloon
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh, oh-oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh, oh-oh
Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum
Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum
Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum
Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum
Oh, my heart just burst like a glass balloon
We let them fly too high and they shattered too soon
Are we the wrong damn people in the wrong damn room?
We broke our glass balloons
We let go of our glass balloons
We broke our glass balloons
Let go of my glass balloon
Oh, oh, ooh
Yeah, I feel I'm watered down
Whenever he's around
I put on the crown of clowns
And melt slowly to the ground
Yeah, I feel it coming on
When I've been static for too long
And an explosion comes in time
Before I go and cross the line
They say you used to be so kind
I never knew you had such a dirty mind
Well, I went to the doctors believing
The devil had control over me and
I was finding it hard to breathe in
Finding it hard to fight the feeling
When my heart just burst like a glass balloon
I let it fly too high and it shattered too soon
I was the wrong damn girl in the wrong damn room
I broke my glass balloon
I let go of my glass balloon
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
They call him Hermit the Frog
He's looking for a dog
Did you find your bitch in me?
Oh, you're abominable, socially
You're just a little bit too much like me
She says you used to be so kind
Well, baby, I give you your dirty mind
Well, I, I wanna tell you a secret
You can take your double standard love and keep it
I can't help the devil likes to make my heart a double bed
And I can't help he sometimes like to come
And rest his little head
When my heart just burst like a glass balloon
I let it fly too high and it shattered too soon
I was the wrong damn girl in the wrong damn room
I broke my glass balloon
I let go of my glass balloon
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh, oh-oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh, oh-oh
Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum
Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum
Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum
Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum
Oh, my heart just burst like a glass balloon
We let them fly too high and they shattered too soon
Are we the wrong damn people in the wrong damn room?
We broke our glass balloons
We let go of our glass balloons
We broke our glass balloons
Let go of my glass balloon
Lyrics submitted by jo_taylor_joe, edited by Mellow_Harsher, tiatbh, MarinasDiamond, queertopia, Chideyaj, AuroraDove, leelabkny, ZuzuA
Hermit the Frog Lyrics as written by Marina Lambrini Diamandis
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Yeah I feel I'm watered down Whenever he's around I put on the crown of clowns And melt slowly to the ground
Yeah I feel it coming on When I've been static for too long And an explosion comes in time Before I go and cross the line
They say you used to be so kind I never knew you had such a dirty mind Well, I went to the doctors believing The devil had control over me I was finding it hard to breath and Finding it hard to fight the feeling
When my heart just burst like a glass balloon And let it fly too high and it shattered too soon I was the wrong damn girl in the wrong damn room I broke my glass balloon I let go of my glass balloon
Oh oh oh
They call him Hermit the Frog He's looking for a dog Did you find your bitch in me Oh you're abominable socially You're just a little bit too much like me
She says you used to be so kind Well baby I give you your dirty mind Well I, I wanna tell you a secret You can take your double standard love and keep it I can't help the devil likes to make my heart a double bed And I can't help he sometimes like to come and rest his little head
When my heart just burst like a glass balloon And let it fly too high and it shattered too soon I was the wrong damn girl in the wrong damn room I broke my glass balloon I let go of my glass balloon
Oh my heart just burst like a glass balloon We let them fly too high and they shattered too soon Are we the wrong damn people in the wrong damn room We broke our glass balloons We let go of their glass balloons We broke our glass balloon Let go of my glass balloon
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i feel like this song is about how she likes a guy who is basically just a scumbag. like she's talking about his double standards and asking him if he found a bitch in her. but she's also saying that the devil likes to make her heart a double bed, so like her and the guy. and also she always is mentioning the devil so its like she knows that hes a horrible person but some evil force is compelling her to like him despite his not-so-redeeming qualities. and "glass balloon" is really just her heart.
thats what i think anyways... i'm no good at this analyzing stuff :(
i think the song is about jealousy.
basically she likes a guy and he at some point corresponded it, but soon he traded her for another girl (kind of explicit in the demo version when she says "Think before you blurt out the words you say to her/Because next week you'll be over her").
she still has feelings for him and whenever he's with the other girl she feels extremely jealous and she can't control it and that makes her feel weak. people around her noticed she was acting weird, maybe getting sad or angry for "apparently no reason" (obviously it was the jealousy consuming her), and since she's often portrayed as a good and kind girl, they started saying ("you used to be so kind/ I never knew you had such a dirty mind").
she went to the doctor, probably a psychiatrist, because she was having all these bad thoughts she never had before and it felt like the devil had possessed her. she used to have control over her bad thoughts and feelings but now she can't help but be extremely jealous over this girl ("Finding it hard to fight the feeling")
she gave all her heart to the guy and he left her sooner than she expected. she previously knew the guy and must've seen this girl coming, but she still had hopes that he'd fall for her and gave it all to him (notices how she blames herself for her broken-heart "I broke my glass balloon/I let go of my glass balloon")
he's a loner and he "was looking for a dog" = somebody to play with. she wonders if he found his "bitch" in her because she feels like he played with her feelings. she says she's loner just like him, implying she has a lot more in common with him than this other girl.
the other girl is proud of making her jealous and brags that around ("you used to be so kind/Well baby I give you your dirty mind"). marina says that logically he should love/like her more than this other girl, because they knew each other for a long time and this girl just appeared out of the blue. she's become sassy and telling people (maybe the guy?) things she shouldn't about this girl and she can't help it because "the devil" (jealousy) has control of her heart.
at the end, she kind of gives us advice. the chances of having a "sooner" heart-break and losing control of our feelings are higher if we give ourselves to someone all at once :-)
I really love the meaning of this song. Also, when someone is going through a heartbreak or someone who thinks that a guy/girl was their everything but ending up being nothing but mean to them. Some people fall in love with others easy, even if they want to help it they can't. Because simply, you can't help who you love. Most of the time, the other doesn't feel the same and that's where the chorus comes in. "Well, my heart just burst like a glass balloon, I let it fly too high and it shattered too soon. I was the wrong damn girl, in the wrong damn room, I broke my glass balloon, I let go of my glass balloon." I love the metaphors. She's saying her heart is fragile and she let's, and can't help, herself fall in love. And when you're in love, if they don't come out and say they don't feel the same. You have hope and positivity. So when they say they don't feel the same, it breaks. She's saying she gets hurt and falls in love easy.
For me this song clearly represents her issues with mental health and mental instability.when she says " I went to the doctor believing the devil had control over me" she talks about her own mental problems she might have had.I don`t know too much about her private life but for me this is the interpretation making the most sense. when she talks about the "glass balloon" she means her psyche and how she maybe let herself go to far away partying, doing drugs or whatever and how it crashed then.I think its plausible that with hermit she means either the devil or her mental illness.
@olover i believe when she speaks of going to the doctors and all that she is trying to make a statement in that she has fallen so hard over someone that she was experiencing drastic and unfamiliar feelings inside, and had sought out professional help. "Believing the devil had control over me" to me either means she's under the thumb of her own craving that she feels "possessed", or maybe even the "devil" could be Hermit the Frog, her unrequited lover. Again just my opinion though. Not trying to correct anyone just throwing my ideas out as well
watered down crown of clowns *ecstatic...above all things, I think lyric-interpreter heard a different version than that on the album.
no one's yet commented on this piece of brilliance? clearly about someone who falls for a bastard who only uses for sex, or something else which deprives values.
glass balloon - I think it's the fragility of love or what-you-yourself-would-call-it, that precarious feeling you feel for someone...great analogy.
amazing song, my favoite on the album
This. Song. Is. Genius.
I agree with AlecsPen
for some reason i relate to this song.
i wonder, if "hermit the frog" is a person, the music business or patriarchal society generaly