| White Lies – Bigger Than Us Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Oh, you're great, you got me one more step closer to a full interpretation of the lyrics, thank you! :) The window-thing wasn't that clear to me until now. Now I literally see him pushed against a window waiting for her, staring out... Do you have any clue about the crying horses? Since English isn't my first language, maybe I miss some kind of collocation. Some more thing came into my mind why a candy bar was chosen for the video: Usually, everybody loves candy bars, they are sweet and have their own force of attraction. But this candy bar is way too big to eat it, you would die if you tried to eat it at one time. As you can see, the candy bar seems to be bit. So maybe this again is meant to symbolize how hard he wants her but cannot handle the whole situation and has to break of. I never heard of the White Lies before but since I got to know this song I have to say that they are really going under my skin! :) |
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| White Lies – Bigger Than Us Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| PS: The candy bar was chosen because the girl in the video was involved in the commercial for this candy bar. Maybe, the "bigger than us"-thing in the video was her work for the commercial and can therefore easily be used to show how she's caught in this whole thing by putting her directtly in the candy bar. | |
| White Lies – Bigger Than Us Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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For me, the meaning of this song could be generalized in that way, that "she" was caught by something big, may it be love for someone else, death, whatever. For him, the only way to stand this circumstance is to break up with her. The video may seem very confusing, but I figured out some explanation for me. I think the video goes beyond the story told by the lyrics and shows the only possibilty for him to stay with her: The candy bar symbolizes the big something that takes hold of her and is the reason for him to break up with her (even though he still loves her madly, I think). The only way to get her out of this mess she's in, was to consult kind of a higher instance. In the video, it would be Harry McVeigh who gets the girl out if the candy bar and in the end back into the arms of the boy. But since there aren't any higher instances (except you believe in God or stuff like destiny) in the real life, the lyrics don't mention this intervention by a higher instance and because of that stays as nihilistic as it appears to the reader/listener. |
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