| Eels – Last Time We Spoke Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song means one thing: Ouch! Self-explanatory, really. Everyone's been there, but some mean more than others. | |
| Eels – Fucker Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I agree somewhat with shockdelica's interpretation, but not fully. To me it's always seemed like this is a breakup song... This explains why he can't seem to figure out what to do with himself. Feeling lonely, but not feeling like doing anything about it. Just sitting around staring into the night. The "Something about you / Something about spending the afternoon / Asleep in your arms"-bit seems like a memory, and the closing lines are like his way of convincing himself that instead of missing this someone desperately, he tries to get angry instead, you know, "trying to vent this terrible passion"... But in reality, he doesn't hate this particular someone, no matter how hard he tries. | |
| Interpol – Length of Love Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Yeah, I know how it goes. I didn't even mean for it to be that long, but it just started snowballing (not in the porn sense of the word). Also, I'm totally right about what I said above, and don't you try to deny it! :p |
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| Interpol – Length of Love Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Well, to me, the song is about falling for someone, whether it's infatuation, a crush or some kind of actual love. What happens is this- You want to be with the person. You get cheery and everytyhing is new. Consequently, you're spending less time with your friends, maybe you never find time for them while you're buzzing over this amazing person you've fallen for. You think "maybe I should spend more time with my old friends soon", but you keep putting it off and after a while, hence the line "I've had no sense of time since we started this thing out" Your friends will begin to see your relationship as someting that's got you locked away from the actual world. And you know that people will be saying this about you, and therefore you tell your special one that "There is a bitter breed, oh sweetheart They will be watching you sometimes With their bitter hearts"... And in the same breath you say "But we are through with these"... You think that you're doing a romantic thing by giving up everything for this one person. If circumstances were different, you might have been right, but the situation doesn't require you to give anything up to be with this person- you just choose to cut everything else out of your everyday life. And you still don't see that it's all because you're seeing the whole shebang through pink love-goggles and if you'd just take them off for a while and be rational, you'd see that you're basically getting too involved in something that's still new, fresh and passionate. The passion doesn't have to die just because you decide to hang out with your old friends every now and then, but you don't see this and you think "this is the lengths I'll have to go to in the name of love". I think the line "We want strong summer love, the most robust of blood // Just to stay awake" simply means that this new thing is exciting as hell, and you think it has swept you into a dream world, but in fact it's just because it makes your life less boring (the "just to stay awake"-line hints at this, methinks) And to me, "salacious removal" could easily mean "getting removed from your previous life because you're feeling frisky/horny/whatever". ANd this is what you should combat. In short: If you have a crush on someone, don't lose your brain into the big cauldron of infatuated passion, and try to stay in touch with what your life is about and waht gave you meaning before. |
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