| Hurt – Just A Thought Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To understand this song we have to look at its context in the album. This song if found right between 'Abuse of SID' and 'Yearn'. In 'Abuse of SID' we listen to the narrator spectate a woman he once loved be beaten and abused by another man, with the bittersweet realization that even if she left her abuser she would still never be with the narrator again. He has front-row seats to her slow agonizing destruction but is powerless to do anything about it. On the other end of Just a Thought we have 'Yearn', a more classically inspired piece on the strings that lives up to its name by being longing, tranquil, obscured, and unresolved. Now the lyrics in 'Just a thought' take us to a time when things are falling apart between two lovers, the narrator spirals downwards in a cycle of self-destruction, punishing himself for his own wrongs and the wrongs of his lover. In (his) eyes the only way he can justify inflicting the pain on himself he needs to get over (her) is by villainizing himself and picturing his lover as perfect. When people ask me to describe the band Hurt to them, I tell them that if a man came home to find his wife had murdered their newborn baby, and them commit suicide, and he sat down with a bottle of whiskey and a guitar - this is the music he would write. It's dark, tortured, twisted, and evokes emotion. All things that most of us can relate to at our darkest moments. 'Just a Tought' to me is about a man carrying all the blame for everything wrong in a relationship that's quickly deteriorating on himself and using that to fuel his own self-destructive desires. |
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| Mumford & Sons – White Blank Page Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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To me the situation is like this, the singer is singing to the 'one that got away' who he loved, but she didn't love him and only enjoyed his attention. He loved her, trusted her, respected her, and kept their relationship pure - yet now she has left him for a man that doesn't. the first verse is sung from the singer to her new man. The chorus is from the singer to the girl he loved asking her where he went wrong. ---- I've had a number of situations like this and I've been left there feeling exactly how he feels in the song. It's sad, but so often girls leave the nice guys who respect them for bad boys that don't. If you're one of those nice guys I will say that there are some nice girls out there too, they're hard to find but they exist and they're worth finding. Don't become like the other guy in this song just to get the girl - she won't be with him forever… |
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