| Spoon – Out Go The Lights Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Personally, I think this song, and actually the entire album, is about the women in Britt's life that he's been serious about. Transference, sorry this is going to be the Wikipedia level definition, is the unconscious redirection of feeling from one person to another. So, by naming the album this, I think what Britt is trying to say about this group of songs is, that they aren't so much about a person or an event, but a group of women and relationships who resemble each other in his mind. Like he keeps running into the same patterns with all the girls in his life. What out go the lights is about to me is a woman who changed. She entered his life making his head turn from "left to right" and then it ended and "out went the lights" and time stopped. She had goals in her life "on which heart was fixed" and in pursuing them she changed and then it was over. The part about the black wig to me is just couple stuff, messing around and being silly like you do with your girl friend, and he's reminiscing about it before trying to blot it out with "the noise" at a club or something. Similarly, the part about the window breaking at the bone/bump is the kind of thing you say when you're breaking up to stall because, you don't know what to say. The boxing metaphor I think is to say that she surprised him and beat him down. He didn't think she could be vicious like she was at the end and then she walked out on him. Maybe this is just me, but I would say the music is also fits the mood of having been recently walked out on, at least in my mind. |
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