| Ellie Goulding – Salt Skin Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think... "You're as sharp as a knife and you fit like a glove that is no way to live, that is no way to love"- He's sharp with words,living a bitter life. "Full of fear in your skin and weakness in giving in"- This one doesn't really need interpretation. She says it plainly, he's full of fear and has a weakness for giving in. This is his salt skin. "Your stabbed in the back but you feel no pain Push the heaviest doors that you can't open"- The reason for his salt skin: he's so used to being hurt; pain, that he expects it. He tries to break out of this routine of his, this negative outlook on life, but that's an obstacle (a heavy door) he can't overcome (can't open). "You're as bright as the sun and as calm as the wind I don't know when you'll break but it's gonna be soon If my will caves in, I'll be in the same boat as you"- He has a lot of potential, but he keeps to himself. One day though, he'll explode. It's not healthy, and she knows that if she gives in to negativity and isolation, she'll be in the same position. "I've got the salt skin running to where he is never going to give in Even with the strength"-now she has the fear and weakness for giving in in her skin, and she's headed towards his position, his way of life, but she promises herself she won't end up like him. "he's stealing salt skin telling me i'm winning wars they created just to undestand the meaning (of)"- Now this maybe a long shot, but to me, I think she's having an affair with this guy. And he's telling her, that she's winning wars they created, as in conflicts him and his girlfriend couldn't overcome, in other words its easier being with her..yet he's still with his girlfriend, so basically he's trash. Another reason she doesn't want to end up like him, a cheating saltskinned guy who has a fear of commitment and love. And she knows this affair is wrong, but she's drawn to it, she needs him even though she doesn't want him, and in this she begins to understand the meaning of...love, I believe. And she understands this is NOT real love. "Hands on strings and my mouth open Find the perfect words that i've not spoken And I won't tell the truth unless you want me to"- The perfect words that she hasn't spoken, are the words that would end their affair... but she won't come clean unles he wants her to. He has a hold over her. I believe this is her weakness, her salt skin, letting him control her, almost like a puppet (Hands on strings and my mouth open). "For all the times that I lost my head When it rolled to the floor and I found it again But when it came back, I didn't know my own name"- For all the times she's been in quite a pickle, so to speak, she got out of it somehow. This time its different. She's so far gone into this affair, she doesn't even recognize herself anymore. All in all. She's in love with a dirtbag whose got saltskin(fear of commitment)and it's rubbing off on her. He's her weakness, her salt skin. And if she keeps this up, she'll end up like him. All the while knowing, understanding, that no matter what hold he has over her, this is NOT real love. |
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