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| The The – Bluer Than Midnight Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Again with the lust! I love this theme in The The's music. To me this is about someone who has gotten so accustomed to a particular sin that it almost doesn't seem like a choice anymore ("one sin leads to another one"). My first impression was one of adultery, with the narrator conflicted between feelings of lust for his partner, the awareness that it is wrong ("the ghosts that haunt me"), and the guilt that it's not his first sin. I like the question about lust being something to yield to or overcome...is there really an answer?
The last verse suggests he not only feels guilty for his transgressions, but that he also worries about his own emotional state...he's gotten so accustomed to being fearful in these situations that he feels he is unable to feel love as strongly, maybe because his conscience eats away at him. He doesn't feel that he can save himself from his own moral lapses, and fears he is doomed to a life of lustful sin rather than love. |
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| The The – Dogs Of Lust Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Hot. I read the third verse as a continual personal struggle--like he wants to pull himself out of a life of lust and loneliness, but the "dogs of lust" (his id?) keep dragging him back down to his baser desires. |
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