| Los Campesinos! – Hello Sadness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is deeply moving to me and there is a lot of sadly beautiful imagery in this song. This is what it means to me: The wishbone means that the girl is faced with a choice, between the protagonist and another person. The protagonist fears that if she chooses the other person “if this little finger (his own) doesn’t have the strength,” the protagonist will be destroyed (his back bone breaks). He wants to marry the girl, a ring on the fourth digit that "will do until we are betrothed." Something happens, she chooses the other, and his heart is broken. He is with her another time, but this time he is upset with her for choosing the other and “now these hang nails they just slice.” Yet, he is eternally optimistic. If he was a pessimist, his heart would be stone. But he is an optimist, so his broken heart keeps dripping and is never running dry. He is holding out hope that she will return to him. Of course he knows deep down she will let him down. Hello sadness. This song might be referring to the same person and situation as "By Your Hand." In my view it matches up very nicely. |
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| Los Campesinos! – By Your Hand Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the song is written excellently and open to multiple interpretations, as any good piece of art is. This is what the song means to me: He likes a girl a lot. The girl likes him, too, but only for drunken sex. “This is the crux.” She is seeing other people as well. “Remember what your heart is for” means that he does not want to have sex with her if it not going to be for love, because his heart will be broken if he does. So he does not have sex with her, at first. He worries about being killed by her other boyfriend. “It’s a good night for a fist fight.” This death would be "by your hand," because she would be responsible since she led the protagonist along and caused this. He fantasizes that she is dreaming of a long-term relationship with him, even though he knows deep down that she isn't. He ends up having sex with her on a pool table “I lay you down atop the baize.” This time he didn’t remember what his heart was for and soon his heart is broken. The last “by your hand” refers to his own death, a suicide caused by her inability to return the love he has for her. |
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