| Alice in Chains – Love, Hate, Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Some very good points here! My two cents: "I tried to love you I thought I could" In my opinion, this song is primarily about the author's mixed feeling about his girlfriend and his inability to fully commit to a relationship with a girl, he feels he is not able to love his partner either because of his own emotional troubles or because she isn't really the right person to love. "I tried to own you I thought I would" The second line is, imho, about unhealthy behaviour in a relationship when you feel insecure because you question your partner's commitment so you try to rule every aspect of your partner's life (also "Try to understand me little girl/My twisted passion to be your world")and literally flood her/him with love but feel empty inside because you feel your love is not returned("I live for you but I'm not alive") Or maybe it's the author complaining that he wasn't able to create a genuine bond with his girlfriend. "I want to peel the skin from your face Before the real you lays to waste" Apart from references to violence that appear throughout the song (the "hate theme"), I would say this is mainly about wanting that your partner be honest with you (I want to know "the real you", to find out what your true feelings about me are) "You told me I'm the only one" As some people mentioned before, I also think it's either about a girl who cheated on the author or the author thinks she did - "you told me I'm the only one/cheating myself still you know more". And the underlying theme is - once again - his insecurity - he isn't sure if she truly loves him or not so he acts like crazy. "Sweet little angel you should have run" I think this line is totally brilliant - it perfectly describes his ambivalent feelings towards the girl - he wants to hurt her because he thinks she betrayed him but at the same time she loves her and feels pity for her and thus he dissociates from these violent feelings. "Lying, crying, dying to leave" I guess these lines describe his and/or her emotional struggles when both of them know their relationship doesn't work but neither of them is actually willing to call it quits. "Innocence creates my hell" My interpretation is probably wrong but, imo, that "innocence" could mean that he or she pretends everything is ok and that's why he can't really vent his feelings and talk about his insecurities/issues openly. "Cheating myself but you know more" This probably means that even though he tries to convince himself that her feelings for him are true and everything is ok and he doubts his love for her at the same time, she "knows more"= is better in cheating, i.e. she - in his opinion - really cheats on him with someone else, not just questioning her own feelings like he does. "It would be so easy with a whore" If you're engaged emotionally when having sex, it's a lot more difficult for you than if that person doesn't mean anything to you. It's a vulnerability thing, you try to think that you would feel better if you didn't have to deal with your emotions, hence the line - you feel nothing, you can't be hurt. "Lost inside my sick head" I think that the fact that the words such as "sick head", "twisted passion" and references to acts of violence and probable inability to love someone appear so often in the lyrics should imply that the author perceives his behaviour as inappropriate and yet he thinks he can't help himself because he is somehow emotionally crippled. Someone mentioned this happens to very sensitive people, I think this is very true. "Take my hand before I kill" That's another powerful line - and i guess this is about insecurity too - he's about to be aggressive because he doesn't know if she doesn't play with him but if she shows him real affection (takes his hand) he wouldn't be able to hurt her. "I still love you, but, I still burn" That's pretty self-explanatory. That's how you feel when you find out someone you deeply loved cheated on you - you still have some warm feelings for this person but feel hurt and angry. "Love, hate, love" That's quite clear too, the basic ideas of the song, ambivalent feelings about someone's relationship... Anyways, don't mind my lame interpretation :-), this song is fucking brilliant! |
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