| Paper Route – You Kill me Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I actually think this song is about cheating. "Hold your head up, dear, I'm the one who's wounded here-- but I love you still the same." They're looking down because they're ashamed as they admit they've been unfaithful-- and the speaker is saying, "Look at me, you cheated on me-- but I still love you". The betrayal has obviously "wounded" him to the point where it's hard to look at his partner, but he still loves them. "I close my eyes and think 'This could not be happening Am I the one to blame?' When we rang the wedding bells, Should we have been with someone else? Is that what you really need? Oh, is that what you really need?" He's asking himself if their unfaithfulness came from something he wasn't giving them-- is he the one to blame for this? He's beginning to wonder if their marriage meant anything... if maybe all along they were supposed to be with another people. He's asking them if that's what his partner has needed all along. Gosh, this song is sad. I think that last line could be open to interpretation. When he says, "Everything I've been, everything I am", I know he's talking about how this relationship and his spouse is basically everything to him-- they're what's shaped his life, it's what he's spent thirty years living and breathing. But the words, "My heart's the same as yours I love you the same" could really be interpreted two ways. One, he's making up his mind-- even if it kills him, he says, "My heart's the same as YOURS", and if this person has been cheating-- maybe they don't love him that way any more. I mean, they love him because that's what happens when you're together for so long, but it's not that type of love anymore. So maybe he's giving them up so they can be happy elsewhere. OR, maybe the spouse is trying to make the relationship work again, and the speaker is saying that he really wants to start over and he loves them the same as he always has. EFF. |
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| Saltillo – Giving In Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I believe 'waiting to listen' got most of it right. The quotes from "I'll lend you a child" are very striking and I believe there could be various explanations for them. One, the speaker of the song could have a strained or possibly even an abusive relationship with her parents. She's born, raised, and all the while torn down. Her strength, however, comes from herself. She identifies with the fact that just because people stare at her differences (or perhaps bruises upon her skin), she does not care because they will never see the true her, they will never know her or her troubles. She acknowledges that know one can help her because they are too busy clamoring for their spot in the world, to be the center of attention, as she does not. But she will never give in, no matter how horribly her parents have treated her or knock her down. She's almost broken, but she knows that she will never really be hurt, without letting herself be hurt. The excerpts from the poem do not particularly hold love (there is the line "we'll love him while we may" which could be a lie from abusive or otherwise callous parents who have need, but not want, of a child). They say, "To all parents..." and then at the end, "Now will you give her all your love, Nor think the labor vain, Nor hate Me when I come to call to Take him back again?" and the answer could've been the song from the child's POV. If so, this is an amazing song to point out the particular difficulties one might face in an abusive childhood and a jeer at those who abuse their right as parents. The other explanation would be what 'waiting to listen' was touching base upon. Parents must raise their children and it grieves them to watch their children try to grow up in a world where people are so selfish. But the speaker knows and has been taught correctly that they cannot be hurt unless they let themselves be, so, as their parents taught them, they will never give in. And the end is just a reiteration of the fact that as a parent you must teach your children love and acceptance and strength, even though it's a grievous expenditure. Either way, the song is powerful and teaches one to be strong and to never give up. Saltillo is amazing. |
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