| Fiction Family – War in My Blood Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the line, "And where my girls is now somewhere that's where I wanna be from" is actually "And where my girl is now, someday that's where I wanna be from." It's as if he's saying he wants to settle down with this girl but that day is 'someday', not right now. I believe that he loves the girl, but he's not ready to settle down with her. He's been in love before and he finds it comfortable but not exciting, hence, "Love is a song that we've sung, love ain't the tune in my lungs." He's done it before. He's already experienced love and now he wants some new experiences. He's not ready to settle down and have a normal life, as he's "still got wars to be won" and new experiences to be had. But I get the feeling that the girl no longer reciprocates his feelings because of him leaving to live his life. He says, "I know precisely what made her run," which indicates she's left to find someone more settled and he knows it. Throughout the song he compliments her and gives us images of how beautiful she is, as if he's trying to convince her to wait for him, and when he says, "I tell her she'll always be my only one," I get the idea that he's desperate to have something to come back to once he's done with his 'wars'. He reassures her that it's not because of her that he's leaving, it's not her fault that he feels he has to go, and she couldn't have stopped him: "There ain't nothing that I'm running from", and, "There ain't a thing love could have done." It's just something he had to do. But the switch from "I've got a girl" to "I had a girl" suggests that his pleading is in vain, and he consoles himself that he's done the right thing, telling himself that "an opponent is enough" and he still loves her even if she doesn't love him: "takes two to go to war and only one to fall in love". Finishing with the repetition of "there's war in my blood," he continues to reassure himself, saying it's in his blood and as such was something he needed to do. |
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