| Sinead O'Connor – You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| This song can speak to anyone who has had a relationship with an emotionally closed off person. \n\nBut in terms of the inspiration for the song and its original meaning: it was written by Bono, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer for the soundtrack of the Jim Sheridan 1994 film In the Name of the Father. There is a demo with Bono\'s vocials. But Sheridan decided that a woman needed to sing, to represent "Mother Ireland".\nIt is therefore likely to have been originally about a strained relationship between a son and a father, and the son grieving for this father after his death - which is a big part of the film (and may have been inspired by Bono\'s own strained relationship with his father). | |
| Sinead O'Connor – You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[Uranium:39964] Sounds to me like he is just about an emotionally closed off man, not abusive one. And it was written by a man, mosot likely about his own strained relationship with his father. | |
| Sinead O'Connor – You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[paganpoetry:39963] Well, that\'s an interesting, very literal interpretation. But knowing that the song was written by Bono and Gavin Friday for the film In the Name of the Father, but Jim Sheridan decided a woman should sing it to represent "Mother Ireland", it most likely is about a relationship with an emotionally closed off father, and was probably inspired by Bono\'s strained relationship with his late father. | |
| Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[OutdoorMiner:17487] No, it's not, unless Stephen Moccio is blatantly lying when he says it was about a relationship MoZella had just broken off when they were writing the song. But if you personally want to think it's about drugs, you can see it that way. |
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| Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[musicbleeds:17486] "She"? You mean MoZella? I disagree, and I don't see what's "below third grade reading level" in those lyrics. They are very good. |
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| Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Everyone talking about whether it's about Miley's relationship with Liam or music industry or whatever, should just stop. She DID NOT write the song. The song was written by MoZella and Stephen Moccio, and they did not even know at first that they were going to offer it to her. Miley could have identified with the song, but that's it. It was about a relationship, but not Miley's, but MoZella's. "MoZella was extremely emotional that day. She was very frail because she had broken off her wedding during that week. She almost didn't end up making the session. "Wrecking Ball" in every way is about MoZella's toxic relationship and then the courage to say, "I can't go through with this." So here we are, Sacha and I holding this girl together who was just very emotional, trying to comfort her. " "And "Wrecking Ball," in my humble opinion, is a great song. If you hear it stripped down to vocal and piano it's a classical piece of music in a lot of ways. There's a lot of classical influence in it. And when you hear the chordal structure, it's completely there. The sentiment couldn't be more genuine, because we have MoZella, who's pouring her heart and soul out, she's crying half the day. I believe we genuinely wrote a great song with blood, sweat, and tears. We worked for it. However, we were also given the platform that only an artist like Miley could give us, with everything that was going on in her life at the same time just hitting. It all hit at the right time. " (Stephen Moccio on Songfacts, November 16, 2015) |
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| Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[ams6502:17485] It IS about a relationship. But not about any relationship of Miley's, since she did not write the song, nor was the song initially written with her in mind. "MoZella was extremely emotional that day. She was very frail because she had broken off her wedding during that week. She almost didn't end up making the session. "Wrecking Ball" in every way is about MoZella's toxic relationship and then the courage to say, "I can't go through with this." So here we are, Sacha and I holding this girl together who was just very emotional, trying to comfort her. " (Stephen Moccio on Songfacts, November 16, 2015 |
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| Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[profligez:17484] "MoZella was extremely emotional that day. She was very frail because she had broken off her wedding during that week. She almost didn't end up making the session. "Wrecking Ball" in every way is about MoZella's toxic relationship and then the courage to say, "I can't go through with this." So here we are, Sacha and I holding this girl together who was just very emotional, trying to comfort her. " (Stephen Moccio on Songfacts, November 16, 2015 |
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| Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[PercyLou:17483] Miley DID NOT write the song. She did not write the song. MoZella and Stephen Moccio, and they've both made it clear it was about a relationship MoZella had ended just before they started writing the song. They didn't even know at first that they would offer it to Miley. "MoZella was extremely emotional that day. She was very frail because she had broken off her wedding during that week. She almost didn't end up making the session. "Wrecking Ball" in every way is about MoZella's toxic relationship and then the courage to say, "I can't go through with this." So here we are, Sacha and I holding this girl together who was just very emotional, trying to comfort her. " (Stephen Moccio on Songfacts, November 16, 2015 |
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| Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[PoetViolet:17482] Miley was not trying to express anything. She did not write the song. MoZella and Stephen Moccio, and they've both made it clear it was about a relationship MoZella had ended just before they started writing the song. They didn't even know at first that they would offer it to Miley. | |
| THC – Need to Destroy Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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And now for the meaning of this song, though I think it's pretty obvious. It's from the perspective of a person who is terrified of emotional intimacy and tries as hard as possible to avoid it. She (I'll use the female pronoun because the singer is female) is not used to being open and vulnerable with people; it feels like stepping out of her skin. She is having a relationship and is scared that she's falling in love, so she wants to break it of ("Couldn't you go away? Shouldn't i?"), but can't make herself do it. She feels that emotional attachments are a weakness and warns her lover that she will never be the "soft", open, loving partner. I love the use of the double meaning of the word "encircled": it can mean being embraced, but also surrounded by an enemy, and it's telling that this person feels that one is like the other. She wants to try to leave her partner before she gets too emotionally involved, asking herself if she could leave, breaking her partner's heart. ("Could I go away, with the dust of your heart in my mouth?") At the same time, since this person sees love and emotional attachment as a weakness, she warns her partner not to open up too much emotionally to her - not to show their "weakness". She is warning them that she can't rely on them to understand what she is really like, that she may not be what they expect her to be, and that she may hurt them. Since she sees relationships as a struggle and love/need for another person as a weakness, she knows she can and probably will exploit that "weakness" to hurt her partner. This is where she flips their roles and, after having made clear that she is terrified of allowing others to get close to her emotionally because they could hurt her, she warns her partner not to let her too close, because she will hurt them. And she believes that her partner will then see her as an enemy that needs to be "destroyed" - whether this is taken to mean emotionally, or in a more literal way. |
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| THC – Need to Destroy Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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These lyrics look wrong. Some of them don't even make sense, and they're clearly not what the singer is singing. Here is what I think the lyrics are: I step out of my skin, You wouldn't know me now, Couldn't you go away? Shouldn't I? Leave me the hard part It's all I want I need. I won't be Your soft one, I won't be encircled You might become Something I need. And you must not Must not Get closer. Could I go away With the dust of your heart In my mouth? Don't show me your weakness, I can't rely on you To know my soul. Don't show me your weakness, I might become Something you need Something you need Something you need To destroy. |
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| 10cc – I'm Not In Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Quite the opposite, the desperate denials and emotional tone of the vocals clearly shows, to me, that it's about a man afraid of being in love and trying to deny his feelings. | |
| Angie Hart – Blue Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't see a reason to interpret any parts of the song as being about Angel or Riley or anything else that was a (relatively) distant past at this point (though I can see how people can read it that way); it wasn't all that relevant to the situation, apart from being a part of Buffy's history - and, you know, the show was not *all* just about Buffy. I am leaning towards the most obvious interpretations - that it's about all the characters we see in the opening scene, what had happened to them and where they stand as a result; and that the specific lyrics are most likely to refer to those we actually see while those lines are sung. "Night falls I fall And where were you? And where were you?" (we see Buffy in the graveyard) - As Squidlikecreature said, Buffy's descent into depression and darkness and inability to connect to people. "Warm skin Wolf grin And where were you?" (we see Spike sitting alone at the Bronze) - again, I agree with Squidlikecreature that this is about Spike and Buffy, both because we see him and then see her again, and because of the erotic overtones; and I think the next lines are about their relationship as well: "I fell into the moon And it covered you in blue " (we see Buffy again, in the graveyard) - This seems to me like an honest assessment of Buffy's behavior in their relationship and the guilt she feels but hasn't revealed to anyone until her 'therapy session' in this episode. The most obvious interpretation here: I fell into depression and self-loathing, and as a result I made you unhappy. But we'll come back to those lines later, at the end of the episode...* (next, we see Willow in the library) "High tide Inside The air is dew And where were you? Wild eyed I died And where were you?" - This is obviously about Willow and Tara. Compare with Tara's song "Under Your Spell" from "Once More, With Feeling": "The moon to the tide / I can feel you inside" The second stanza can be about Tara's death, and how it made Willow go insane and vengeful/destructive (wild eyed). But it can also refer to Buffy's death in "The Gift". Both profoundly affected Willow: Buffy's death and Willow's decision to return her from the dead was what first pushed her into her addiction to magic; Tara's death sent her into her most destructive phase, turning into Dark Willow and nearly destroying the world at the end of season 6. And she knows that's not what Tara would have wanted. (Next, we see Dawn in the Summers house) "I crawled out of the world When you said I shouldn't stay I crawled out of the world " - This might refer to the events of "The Gift", Dawn's attempt to sacrifice herself and leave the world she thought she didn't belong to in the first place, and Buffy not letting her do it and sacrificing herself instead. "Can I make it right? Can I spend the night? Alone " - Goes to the theme of everybody being essentially alone (as Holden tells Buffy) and not really able to connect with each other (none of the show's regulars in the episode interact with each other at all). Sometimes we just keep hurting people we're close to, so the only way to make it right is to stay away from each other. (Most literally true with Buffy and Spike, staying away from each other sexually seems absolutely necessary to undo some of the damage done to both by their unhealthy sexual relationship.) * At the end of the episode, the stanza is repeated, over the shocking and violent images that the episode closes on (Andrew kills Jonathan, who is left lying there as a sacrificial lamb; Spike is feeding on the woman he killed, while Buffy, staking Holden, after learning from him that Spike is killing again) "I fell into the moon And it covered you in blue I fell into the moon Can I make it right? Can I spend the night? Alone" Someone 'falling into the moon' suggests succumbing to darkness, depression, destructive impulses etc. and making someone else unhappy. As I said, at the beginning of the episode, I found it to be about Buffy's being overtaken with her issues, her self-loathing and depression in season 6 and how she hurt people around her as a result, Spike most of all; here it can refer to Spike being overtaken by darkness and how hurt and horrified Buffy is to learn about it. But of course, I'm sure that there are plenty other ways that each of the lines can be interpreted; I am just inclined to go with the most obvious connections suggested by the placement of the song in the episode itself. |
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