| Yo La Tengo – Sugarcube Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The title is a play on the adage, "you can't get blood from a stone", meaning that, some things are impossible, no matter how hard you try. You certainly can't get blood from a sugarcube. The lover in the song wants to be less uptight, more assured, more in the present moment, more aware, but the the harder you work at those things, the the harder it is to achieve them. In order to be truly assured and cool and confident, you need to let go. Trying really hard will get you nowhere. No wonder the lover is crumbling before his beloved -- he's working so hard to achieve a futile goal. Men and women alike are notorious for rejecting would-be lovers who try too hard to win them over. Playing hard to get is all about appearing as if you don't NEED your lover...even if you really really want them. But the effort, no matter how difficult and exhausting, is sweet to the lover in this song...because he's just so infatuated with his beloved that it barely even matters to him if he "wins". He just wants his beloved to be happy, and he'll do anything to achieve that. Even if the goal is futile, the journey is sweet. |
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