| Bright Eyes – Lover I Don't Have to Love Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Just realised that I spelt Conor's name wrong...twice. Sorry, my fingers were just going insane I guess. -Rob |
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| Bright Eyes – Lover I Don't Have to Love Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Ok, so here is the parts that I have an inkling as to the meaning, obviously you don't have to agree. I picked you out Of a crowd and talked to you Said I liked your shoes I said "thanks can I follow you"? So it's up the stairs And out of view No prying eyes I poured some wine I asked your name you asked the time [like everyone said, picking up somewhere or other, he tries to find out her name which gives the impression that he may have never 'done this' (had a one night stand) before, I get the impression that she's kind of dominant (not in an BDSM way (nessesarily ;))) and has done this before, all the way through the first two verses it just seems like she knows what she's doing but he's a little nervous and shy. Then someone said something about "I like your shoes..." being a pick up line, so that seems pretty suggestive there] Now it's two o'clock The club is closed we're up the block Your hands on me Pressing hard against your jeans Your tongue in my mouth Trying to keep the words from coming out You didn't care to know Who else may have been you before [Firstly, in the booklet theres a little "I'm" infront of "pressing hard..." which makes a lot more sense (to me anyway) as I always took that to be his hard-on if you get my drift. Again, the girl seems to be able to detatch herself from emotions and basic human etiquette than conor/character because he it gives an implication that he's trying to be polite by talking to her but she's "keeping it in" because it wont make any difference and normal manners don't matter in this context (i.e. casual sex) I want a lover I don't have to love I want a girl who's too sad to give a fuck Where's the kid with the chemicals? I thought he said he'd meet me here but I'm not sure I got the money if you got the time He said it feels good I said I'll give it a try [I'd say thats self-explanatory, sex and drugs, maybe more of the girl being more experienced by telling him it feels good and him consenting to 'give it a try' implying a first time, this could mean the drugs, the sex or both.] Then my mind went dark We both forgot where your car was parked Let's just take the train I'll meet up with the band in the morning [I take this as being lust kind of takes over, and probably the drugs to. So you end up with two really horny people in the middle of the night, off their face and I think in that situation, that verse is also self-explanatory] Bad actors with bad habits Some sad singers They just play tragic [I really have no idea what this bits about. Someone herre said that maybe "bad actors with bad habits" was about the girl and I think that fits in really well. Then the singers bit most likely relates to him, possibly self-loathing which isn't exactly un-conerish, or not exactly self-loathing but looking at himself and thinking his constant sadness is pathetics, which I think he seems to do quite a bit, as if he knows that he writes all woe-is-me but can't help it] And the phone's ringing And the band's leaving Let's just keep touching Let's just keep keep singing [Again, I think this is lust and drugs taking over and neither of them really give a fuck anymore, their too tied up in this spiral of...decadence? and don't want to have to face real life or responsibility. I get a bit of an implication that, like I said before about Coner/character being inexperienced with the casual sex thing, he's now a bit addicted to it. You know how sometimes people do something for the first time and can't believe they've never tried it before and don't want to stop...yeah, like that.] I want a lover I don't have to love I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk [I would like to say that regardless of Coners sexuality, I think this is him either stepping into a character that is bisexual (as he has said that he does often), stepping into the girls character, or just being universal and relatable to everyone (most likely)] Where's the kid with the chemicals I got a hunger and I can't seem to get full I need some meaning I can memorize The kind I have always seems to slip my mind [I think someone asked about the "meaning I can memorize" bit before, I take this as meaning that he wants to find something in life that doesn't lose it's value the minute he gets high/takes drugs and just forgets everything. To me it's like he's still searching for some kind of meaning to life and all life's questions, kind of like religion and spirituality, and the reason he wants to memorize it is because everything he takes to be real meaning just becomes unimportant when he takes drugs. (can you tell I'm battling to get this into words?) Right now, drugs fill his 'hunger', but he wants something that will over-ride this need for drugs so he'll already be 'full' and wont get the urge to take them.] But you but you You write such pretty words But life's no story book Love's an excuse to get hurt And to hurt Do you like to hurt? I do I do Then hurt me (10 x) [This is my faverouite part and I think theres two ways it can be taken regarding the story of the song, either, he's had a one-night-stand and then fallen in love in a normal love way, or he's had a one-night-stand but theres something in his character that wont allow him to detatch his body from his emotions in such a way that one must when having one-off sex, if you know what I mean, so he's kind of fallen in love because his mind/emotions/heart can't handle being physical like that without loving someone, so he's kind of forced to love him (but thats probably just me having too much fun with this). Then, I take it as a conversation between him and the girl going: Girl: But you write such pretty words [he's a singer etc] Him: (so? what does it matter if I do because) life's no story book, Love's an excuse to get hurt, And to hurt [meaning: firstly to get hurt yourself and secondly to hurt other people] Do you like to hurt? [as in 'do you like to hurt other people?" She says: I do I do He says: Then hurt me [possibly because masochistic or because he can't believe in love unless it has some kind of disaterous effect on the self, so it has to hurt or it's not really love, he has come to expect this of love. So maybe he's asking himself whether this is true love and at the same time begging her to love him truly] I don't know, I love doing these sorts of things so sorry if that way a)way off b)a repitition or c)stupid... ;) -Rob |
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| Bright Eyes – Time Code Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| About the 'ant hill law'; the first thing I thought of was the way that ants drag their dead around, like they walk for miles (or what would seem like it for an ant) carrying their dead. The question is though, do they eat them? Because thats what I was always told, that they take the bodies back for food, so maybe it has something to do with the greed in todays' society. I just thought of that because the songs about death though, I didn't think of the other meanings even though their more likely. | |
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