| Placebo – Blind Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Well, I personally think that this song is not necessarily about drug addiction. There are a lot of addictions and although it most likely _is_ about drugs (you guys convinced me^^) I still think that it also could be about a person who is differently addicted, not to substances like alcohol or cocaine or whatever, but maybe to self injury or self destruction. I somehow got the impression that the person the narrator is talking to suffers from a mental illness, maybe clinic depression, eating disorders, maybe bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder or whatever, it doesn´t really matter because all these illnesses can include symptoms like self injury, suicidal tendencies, apathy etc. So I imagined that the person is seriously ill and lying in a hospital or in the psychiatric ward, maybe because of a suicide attempt that failed, maybe because the person doesn´t care enough for his/her own life so that he/she had to be brought to hospital. The person is in a state of apathy and numbness and all he/she does is staring at the ceiling. That´s where the narrator comes in, who cares very deeply for this person because he/she means everything to him. So in my opinion the whole "tear you from the ceiling" thing could mean that the narrator wants the person to react to him, to make him/her look away from the ceiling. "The best have tried" is directed at the psychologists and doctors who have tried to heal the person and probably failed (because you can´t heal someone who doesn´t want to be healed). So the narrator knows that the situation is really serious and that he is about to lose the person he loves the most, so he begs her/him to stay because without her/him there would be no light in his life (the whole "blind" concept) and he promises to make everything better, he tells his lover/friend that he will protect him/her and make him/her see everything in a new way, a better way, that everything their life together will be meaningful, that they can be happy together. The "I know I broke it" can have many meanings, but in my interpretation it is based on the frailty that persons who are suffering from a mental illness such as depression often possess, so that even a little mistake or an inconsiderate comment from a beloved person can make everything extremely worse or even drive the person to suicide. So maybe the narrator did something that caused the person to turn away from him and fall into self destruction. But as I already mentioned this is only my personal way of interpreting this song, I don´t think that the lyrics were written with that picture in mind =) |
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| Lacuna Coil – Senzafine (English Version) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Thank you so much for translating!! It was quite hard to sing along without any italian language knowledge, but to get the sense was really impossible =) So it´s great to discover the translated lyrics^^ Ah, I love this song, Andi and Cristinas voices are really beautiful, and now that I get the lyrics I see that they are great, too. I agree with the opinion of dark ivory, it´s about breaking free from destiny... oO dark ivory described it much better than I can =) |
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