Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
I want to explore you
I'm gonna get under your skin
So you can feel me running through your veins
I want to examine
Every inch of your frame
The pressure points that cause your joy and pain
Our love goes under the knife
There is no room for doubt
Now I'm inside you
My hands can feel their way
Further inside than I have ever been
Now I can really
Mess around with your heart
And fill it to the brim with broken dreams
Our love goes under the knife
Two lives may be saved
And if I pull this off
I'll refuse the Nobel prize
Instead I will look into your eyes
If I pull this off
Your whole body will be mine
And I'm prepared to work throughout the night
Our love goes under the knife
Nothing is taboo
Here on the cutting edge of science
Too much information
I feel I'm getting lost
Absorbed into the fiber of your soul
Deep within the abattoir
Of your entrails your insides
Lost in you forever far from home
Our love goes under the knife
Someone got too close
Our love goes under the knife
The heart was rejected by the host
I'm gonna get under your skin
So you can feel me running through your veins
I want to examine
Every inch of your frame
The pressure points that cause your joy and pain
Our love goes under the knife
There is no room for doubt
Now I'm inside you
My hands can feel their way
Further inside than I have ever been
Now I can really
Mess around with your heart
And fill it to the brim with broken dreams
Our love goes under the knife
Two lives may be saved
And if I pull this off
I'll refuse the Nobel prize
Instead I will look into your eyes
If I pull this off
Your whole body will be mine
And I'm prepared to work throughout the night
Our love goes under the knife
Nothing is taboo
Here on the cutting edge of science
Too much information
I feel I'm getting lost
Absorbed into the fiber of your soul
Deep within the abattoir
Of your entrails your insides
Lost in you forever far from home
Our love goes under the knife
Someone got too close
Our love goes under the knife
The heart was rejected by the host
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Love this song. Can't believe it doesn't have any comments already. But eh, I am alone with the sadistic things I love.
I feel this song portrays are girl (or guy eh) controlling another through sex.
"If I pull this off your whole body will be mind And I'm prepared to work throughout the night
our love goes under the knife nothing is taboo ...her on the cutting edge of science"
However, I think the song is a bit obscure, so it's meanings can be ambiquous.
Certainly among the sexiest songs ever, I like her metaphor of love as an operation, it's at once disgusting and charming.
The first time I heard it, the final line made my jaw drop. "The heart was rejected by the host" - this seems to reveal that the song is not describing a medical operation, as it appears on first listen, but the preparation of a meal...
Uhhh, what? "The heart was rejected to the host." This happens all the time in surgeries, afterward. The transplanted organ will be rejected by the host. Usually happens when you don't have the right type (i.e. marrow transfusions.)
@Geissler i think ur misunderstanding the word host as someone who is having people at their house for dinner. it can also mean the recipient of a transplant hence they are the host to the new organ inside their body much like the owner of the house is a host to the people inside their house