| Kleerup – Until We Bleed Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is one of those songs that touches your heart and you don't know why. My interpretation of the lyrics is that it's a failed relationship marked by mixed feelings, mixed worlds. Do I stay? Do I go? Sex always complicates things. In the first verse, she feels overwhelmed. She is partly ashamed at how stupid she can be over him, how vulnerable she can be both physically and emotionally and how much she puts up with and endures. (I'm naked/ I'm numb /I'm stupid/ I'm staying) It seems that he only feels things for her when they are clumsily fooling around in the dark, drunk and stupid. However, she gives him real love. They're bound to continue on this unhealthy pattern because that is what she has planned and idealized. Drinking the fatal drop, to me, is about Shakepeare's Romeo and Juliet. Romeo, believing Juliet was dead, drinks a vial of poison. Likewise, she may be drinking the vial over and over again over this relationship's death, it is a reoccurring wound for her. In this sense, she loves until she bleeds. The wound never closes. The pain will be there after they part ways in the morning. The second part of the song discusses the idea of how unfixable it all is, that time spent trying to understand her or it was wasted. The next line is about burning bridges. If they burn this bridge (move on), he will fall too. Therefore, if this all ends, they will be inconsolable. There will be nothing left to salvage or hold onto. Door slams of the bedroom, he leaves. Later on he comes back and the cycle continues. "Stay clean / I need you to need me" is a great pair of lines. To her, it seems he only ever feels warmth for her when he's drunk. She wants him to need her, without the alcohol. She wants to feel like there's still love present. It can be about any type of failure in a relationship. Sex, communication in general, fighting -- All the things exes do can give these feelings of hopelessness and are all capable of making cycles of life. |
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