| Erasure – Breathe Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| For those who never heard the interview, this is a rare song for Erasure... it's actually about someone specific. The lyrics detail Andy's feelings after his boyfriend for a long time, Paul, had a stroke and he felt like he was losing him... and the feelings of regret that Andy had for his immature ways throughout the years. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Closer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think a lot of people completely miss the point of this song, especially when they say it's about sex and/or rape. This song is about heroin. Everything that is said in the versus and chorus are from the point of view of the drug itself. The refrains (Help me, and the lyrics that follow those two words itself) is the person affected by the addition to heroin. There's a reason the song is sexual in tone, people who have had heroin habits say it's "a million times better than the best orgasm you've ever had." You let me violate you/You let me desecrate you/You let me penetrate you/You let me complicate you The drug speaking to the user. You violate your body, penetrate it with a needle and the user's personality becomes complicated due to the use of the drug and withdrawl thereafter. (Help me...) I broke apart my insides/(Help me...) I've got no soul to sell/(Help me...) The only thing that works for me/ Help me get away from myself POV of the user, a literal cry for help. The user admits to using heroin as an escape from himself. He also admits his addiction and the toll it has taken upon his life and his body. I wanna fuck you like an animal/I wanna feel you from the inside/I wanna fuck you like an animal/My whole existence is flawed/You get me closer to God POV of Heroin again. Its arrogance is showing by saying I'm going to fuck you up, you're going to enjoy me in your veins, my existence shouldn't even be rationalized, but as more people use me... I become immortal. You can have my isolation/You can have the hate that it brings/You can have my absence of faith/You can have my everything POV of Heroin again. Outright arrogance gives in to absolute truth of the "complications" (as said in the first verse) that the drug use brings. (Help me...) You tear down my reason/(Help me...) It's your sex I can smell/(Help me...) You make me perfect/Help me become somebody else POV of the user. Again, cries for help. Outright admissions that one knows heroin isn't doing anything good but the user is still dependent on the drug to escape from himself and his life. The whole saying of Heroin's high being better than sex is pretty obvious here, IMHO. Through every forest/Above the trees Within my stomach/Scraped off my knees I drink the honey, inside your hive You are the reason I stay alive First two lines. Literally about flying high. Second two, heroin has a wasting affect on its users. Third and fourth lines, the drug's arrogance shown again, by saying it's because of you I continue to exist and other people will end up getting hooked. Put the video into perspective. It's based on "old time" footage and laboratories. Religious imagry is common in NIN videos and songs, but here it also works because Trent shows himself flying, shackled and essentially crucified. It's about drug addiction and the visual interpretations of such. The crucified monkey? Drug research. Heroin used to be sold as a medical remedy back when people were completely naive about what it really did to you. Bayer sold it. Google Image Search "Bayer Heroin" for proof. This song is about heroin and the cries of help from one who is addicted to it, plain and simple. That and Trent confirmed it to me. Downward Spiral is indeed about fighting and control, religion plays a part. But this song is specifically about heroin. |
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