| Feist – Comfort Me Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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So, weird cosmic coincidence happened yesterday when i was talking to my ex seriously for the first time in over a year, hoping to get some advice, or words of comfort since we're trying to be "friends" again. And after talking for awhile, I realized that it wasn't comforting at all, and everything that was said to me was basically backhandedly saying it was my fault, that I did something, maybe without even knowing, to cause this to happen "again." Then someone posts this song on their blog, and I listen to it, and everything just makes sense in that moment. Ex also told me I have a "psychologist's approach to conversations," so here are my interpretations to what this song means: "true life in haiku in balances of phrase out of the blue meaning shown to you" This was my epiphany moment. Just like reading a haiku, sometimes real life conversations and things don't make sense, but it is usually always connected somehow. And suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, you make the connections and everything makes sense. "what does sadness see the mirror has a mirror in its teeth that's what sadness sees" I wanted comfort and understanding from my ex, and instead what I got was blame. And at first I was a little mad, because after everything, I still felt misunderstood. But then I realized, my ex was only reflecting what happened in our relationship. The sadness from our experiences was reflected in how my current situation was interpreted, and so what was reflected in the "advice" was how my ex viewed our relationship. "big sky, tiny bird when the paragraph betrays the word big sky, tiny bird" Not entirely sure about this stanza, but "big sky, tiny bird" may be referring to how if you focus on something so small, it might be the only thing you see, and you miss out on the whole picture. "When the paragraph betrays the word" - maybe that sometimes when you blow something up out of proportion, you lose the definition, what the relationship meant in the first place..? "while you held me up i held my calendar out like a cup while you held me up" I think this refers to how when someone is supposedly comforting you, and holding you up, and you still feel like something's missing. Holding something out like a cup is reminiscent of a beggar, begging for more money. A calendar represents time. So maybe pleading for more time? or to go back in time? I don't know. "make it about me i want to hold the blame to guillotine make it all blame-free" Obviously, I would interpret this as exactly how I felt last night. I wanted the conversation to be about me. That I was doing the right thing, and it was all going to work out in the end. I didn't want blame, like I had brought it on myself. I wanted my relationship with my ex to not be my fault. And I wanted my current situation to not be my fault. Because I didn't think it was. And I don't blame the other person in either situation either. Sometimes things just happen the way they happen, and no one's to blame. It's no one's fault, and I wanted to "make it all blame-free." Needless to say, when my ex comforted me, it didn't bring me any comfort, actually. |
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