| Imogen Heap – I Am in Love with You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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To me, the lyrics sound like they're from the point of view of someone pressuring their partner into having sex. They insist they're in love, and that being in love means they should sleep together. They pressure their partner into going further than they're comfortable with by saying they have to "finish what you started", and try to blame them for the situation, saying it's their fault for "get(ting) into situations ... you can't handle". When their partner won't do what they want sexually, they angrily say that they're not in love. This is a commonly depicted scenario in the Western world, stereotypically with a young boy in the role of the narrator and a young girl being addressed. The person being addressed, typically being female, is under pressure simultaneously to be virtuous, chaste, pure, and not "promiscuous" or "slutty", whilst also satisfying her boyfriend, not being "frigid", et cetera, and has been indoctrinated with this idea that sex=love: that sex without love is immoral, and that love without sex is pointless. |
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