| Franz Ferdinand – Auf Achse Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I heard this song on Pandora for the first time today. It caught my attention so I decided to look up the lyrics. My suspicion was rewarded, this is a very deep song. Here is my interpretation. "You see her... ...But she won't let you" The verse gives the setting of the song. Boy has fallen madly in love with a girl, and for a reason that I don't think is stated, she won't let him have her. It has also been debated, "Is the girl an ex girlfriend, or just a random girl"? Let me throw another option into the fire. She was first a friend. No matter what option you choose the song at heart says the same thing. "She's not so special So look what you've done boy" The chorus to the song is the narrator internally talking to himself. He is repeating the lines over and over again. The first line of the chorus is boy trying to convince himself, this girl is NOTHING SPECIAL, there are others like her. He is trying to reason himself into letting go. The second line is the boys realization that not letting go is ruining him. He could be depressed, angry, or letting this situation impact other relationships. He knows he must let go or forever be ruined. "Now you wish she'd never Come back here again Oh, never come back here again" I think these lines after the first chorus are the boy wishing that this girl would stop haunting him. This could be in thoughts, dreams, or he could physically continue running into her. The biggest point made here is that no matter how hard he tries to move on and forget, the feelings keep rushing back. "Now I'm nailed above you... ...Knowing never will I rise Again" This is definitely the narrator using Jesus' death as a metaphor, an ingenious use of metaphor I might add. Just like Jesus the writer feels he is being slowly tortured because he can not have the girl, it is a slow painful death. She is obviously still close enough to him to know he is dying without her. It also seems that the girl at this point has chosen another over him. Possibly blaming her is another way of coping with the situation. The last line, "Knowing never will I rise Again" seems to be a final resignation, a realization he will never be over her. He is ruined. This is supported by the change in the final chorus. "You still see her Oh and you hear her Ooh and you want her Oh you want to You see her You hear her You want her And you still want to" The last line also seems to infer a part of him never wants to forget her, and now he is okay with that. I admit I have selfish reasons for interpreting the song this way. I fell in love with a friend once, but she could only see my as a friend. Ultimately this became the demise of our relationship all together. I finally chose to accept my memory of her after following the progression of this song in real life. |
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