| Ashlee Simpson – L.O.V.E. Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Ya, this song is catchy for all the wrong reasons. How hard could it have been to write it? No brain cells whatsoever. But I guess there's a lot of people that can relate to that sort of thing. | |
| Panic! at the Disco – Build God, Then We'll Talk Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think that the description of the seedy motel in the beginning of the song really only sets up the story and gives a symbol of the people in it. It makes mention of "the people inside". I think that this not only makes apparent that there are actually people in the motel, but that those people are just like the motel itself. Kinda obvious, but it helps my point later on. The "rosary tucked inside her lingerie" refers back to the earlier sentiment that "Any practiced Catholic would cross themselves upon entering". She must have been a practicing catholic and before the attorney "entered" her she literally crossed herself with the rosary. The next two lines are about two different women, the "virgin" who will start her new job on Monday and the Mrs. who will stay with her husband, but the next line, "Moonlighting aside, she really needs his money" refers to, I think, both of them. I don't know if the 'virgin' has another reputable job or if the "moonlighting" refers to her being a prostitute (though I doubt that), that job doesn't support her. Its the same with the wife; no job she could ever have on her own could support her the way her husband does. So both of these dependencies on the attorney are "caricatures of intimacy"; they depend on him, prolly both have sex with him which give the outward apperance that they are in love with him, but neither of them REALLY love him, so its all just a farce. The "not to mention" included before a description of the constable gives the feeling that the 'virgin' had to create the same fake intimacy with him. I don't think that she did anything spectacular with him, but I do believe that she flirted with him, giving him the sense that there was some sort of intimact between them and the "fixing her face in a compact" was apart of that. There was a literal crash result, I think, in the literal dropping of her purse, but don't think that there was money put into as most of y'all think because of her recent act with her new employer. I think she lost money because it mentioned that it was a "a 'purse' of a different kind/Along with the people inside". So, the song compares the purse with the people in the story, who themselves were compared to dead and rotting people. In the chorus it is repeated time and again that "inside" there is a caricature of intimacy, meaning that all this happens on an emotional level with the characters, I think. |
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