What you want
You are
You always were
What you want
You are
You always were
When the plans fall
Changing hands
What are the chances
Of winning?

You, you hold my heart
You, you won't let up
After when I'm called
Touch turns into fisticuffs
It's all in your head
Wonder if I'm fixed to cut

For its statistics
In the collected whole
We are the hunger
That keeps you climing walls
It's the one thing you can count on
We all end floating away
We all end floating away

You, you hold my heart
You, you won't let up
After when I'm called
Touch turns into fisticuffs
It's all in your head
Wonder if I'm fixed to cut

Is it your fault?
Is it your fault?
Is it your fault?
Is it your fault?
Is it your fault?
Is it your fault?
Is it your fault?
Is it your fault?

You
You're sinking, so they say
You
You're finished, so they say
You
You're buried, so they say
You
I care when caring fades


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    My Interpretation

    Kind of reminds me of the sound of M83. Here's an idea of what I think it means. I think it might be a long shot.

    By taking a look at the lyrics I figured this song might be about a person loving someone who hurts them. I can't tell from which perspective it's being told, but this is what I see.

    "You, you hold my heart You, you won't let up After when I'm called Touch turns into fisticuffs It's all in your head Wonder if I'm fixed to cut"

    So I see this section about the love and it's an interesting play on words because there's both beautiful words that can define love (heart, touch, in your head, fixed), but at the same time there are words that describe hurt and not so beautiful things (won't let up, fisticuffs, cut).

    "We are the hunger That keeps you climing walls" I think that the hunger here refers to staying even though leaving is a better option, even if you have to suffer (climb walls) to do it.

    "For its statistics In the collected whole" Before when it says this it means in the bigger scheme of things... "It's the one thing you can count on We all end floating away We all end floating away" So it doesn't matter in the end, because everyone has the same fate, so why not stick it out together.

    "Is it your fault?" She's asking if it's his fault that she is this way, or if it's love or herself or who?

    Then in the end the last verse... I think it's a monologue. So she's talking to herself saying that it's all over and it doesn't matter anymore. And when she says "I care when caring fades" I think she's reached the point of numbness, where she doesn't feel the pain she only feels the love.

    rominaespinosaon April 23, 2010   Link

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