| Against Me! – You Look Like I Need a Drink Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Yeah, that sounds right. | |
| Against Me! – You Look Like I Need a Drink Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Is this song about a gender dysphoria? Sounds like a guy who has a drink, cross-dresses, realizes he is being the real him for the first time in his life.. That other him takes on persona in his mind, and asks him when she can come back.. Literally creating a crossroads in his life where he has to choose if he is going to continue his life as it has been, or choose this other route that he might have been too ashamed to admit before, but which is now staring him dead in the face. So he shoves it out of shame, and tries to bury it deep within the soft, hollow shell that he's been living in this entire time. He later realises he buried what he truly was, and there's all these people yelling around him in support of him being true to himself (fans of the band, LGBT supporters, etc). Maybe I'm a bit off though... | |
| Bright Eyes – Take It Easy (Love Nothing) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Hmm, as an addendum, I would like to say they were eachother's ex's who became friends again, and THEN had sex. And that is where the song picks up. | |
| Bright Eyes – Take It Easy (Love Nothing) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Hmm, as an addendum, I would like to say they were eachother's ex's who became friends again, and THEN had sex. And that is where the song picks up. | |
| Bright Eyes – Take It Easy (Love Nothing) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The entire song seems to be written from a hindsight-being-20/20 perspective.. You can see it in the first verse where the narrator is re-imagining what happened with them knocking boots from every angle imaginable. The lyrics start out pretty graphically with the images of hands and mouths doing.. things.. But the narrator quickly shifts to a slightly more beautiful, albeit crude image sweat and clouds, symbolizing rain. Often in modern literature, rain or water symbolizes a renewal or redemption, which is what I believe this song is about. In the next two lines, the narrator remarks quite assuredly that he was a "fool", and that she was HIS friend (notice how he does not say WE were friends, quite a different story altogether). He then confirms the acts previously stated with the solid affirmation that they ("we") made it happen. Why say WE made it happen, but not say WE were friends? { First with your hands, then with your mouth A downpour of sweat, damp cotton clouds I was a fool, you were my friend We made it happen } The next verse gets more interesting as the narrator continues to recount the events.. However, he again does it in a way that places himself back in time to when the events were happening, and even re-imagines her existence in front of him "YOU took off your clothes". He may be realizing things about the event as he is recounting it, as he makes it a point to say that she left on the light. This is evidence for the second line of the verse stating her metamorphosis from a shy person to a brave person.. And this metamorphosis I believe he really enjoys, because he goes on to say that it is a marked "improvement" and that her movements are now "refined".. Unfortunately, the sad foreshadowing is in the final line that simply states "And eyes like a showroom". Like a showroom, he is able to see and experience a little of the new, improved her.. but the showroom is just that: a place of temporary residence for one's viewing pleasure. Real relationships are not showrooms. { You took off your clothes, left on the light You stood there so brave, you used to be shy Each feature improved, each movement refined And eyes like a showroom } This is the rising action of the song :) I particularly like this one because the narrator COMPLETELy detaches himself from the events. Notice in the first line how he has shifted from 2nd person and 1st person vantage point, to the 3rd: "Now THEY'RE spreading". At this point, the narrator is viewing his life together with her and not seeing a damn thing wrong. The beach is probably symbolic of changing tides and uncertainty.. the weatherman could be anyone from people outside the relationship commenting inward, to the woman herself, saying the relationship-jumpstart is not going to work (said it would be raining). The irony here is rain, as a symbol for rejuvenation, would be a GOOD thing! In the previous verse, the narrator is really happy with the new, improved her and is thus happy with their coming together again, so he sees no problem… On his end (clear and blue as far as I can see). { Now they're spreading out the blankets on the beach That weatherman's a liar, he said it'd be raining But it's clear and blue as far as I can see } This… this part of the song is just a gut-wrencher, especially for the narrator. Where they came back together (first verse), in FULL light right next to the lamp that she (purposefully?) left on earlier, completely spelled out for him, she basically takes a two-by-four and rams it through his heart. Almost like an adult stepping on a little kids dreams of being an astronaut, she comes out and calls him a "boy" and a "sweet little kid", and tells him he did not do anything wrong, but that he is not what she wants. At least not anymore :( The relationship they had that was alive at one point before.. it is over. She just is not feeling it anymore, and it is dead. Her reason is plain-ish as day…ish, in the third line "Everything as it's always been". He was happy with her change, but she probably feels that the reasons why they broke up before are still there in relationship they are in now. The worst thing about it is.. she may be claiming to be a "woman" who has outgrown(?) him.. but she "scratched" that shit on a "cartoon cat pad"? WTF. She took no care to write it well ("scratched") or even on a decent medium ("cartoon cat pad"), so that calls in to question whether she really has grown up or not.. If she thinks she is better than him because she is a woman, that would make it even worse, because she would be leaving him for a reason that isn't even true. The last two lines are evidence that she has not really grown up, in that if she really WAS a woman, she would not have wrote it in such a condescending way.. she would have been much more compassionate and caring in the way she went about ending it, because she would have that innate understanding that people are delicate things. The worst part about this is she tries to tell him to forget that it ever happened ("this never happened"). Yeah, she is really a woman, right. We are the things we do, the thoughts we have, and the sum of our given experiences. { Left by the lamp, right next to the bed On a cartoon cat pad, she scrached with a pen: "Everything as it's always been, this never happened Don't take it too bad, it's nothing you did Just once something dies, you can't make it live You're a beautiful boy, you're a sweet little kid But I am a woman" } If anyone wants me to do the second half, I will gladly do it.. the first half of this song is mad deep. |
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