| Birdy – Skinny Love (Bon Iver cover) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I have a really odd interpretation of this song, but here it goes... Come on skinny love just last the year/ I think that she is literally speaking of a love that is "skinny," like a love that is fragile and lasts a short amount of time? I actually think this love is toward herself. Pour a little salt we were never here/ In history, when a city was destroyed, they salted the earth to purify it. She believes she is destroyed, but that if she erases her presence that she can purify the people around her in some way. My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer/ Veneer is a type of wood, not very sturdy. It sounds like she wants to kill herself, but then again she doesn't, so she takes her frustrations out on the bathroom counter, the blood in the sink from the wound she acquires. I tell my love to wreck it all Cut out all the ropes and let me fall/ She is telling her love to let her go, to cut all ties with her to spare him/her pain, but in the process, he would let her fall because he is the only thing tying her to this world. My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Right in the moment this order's tall/ He doesn't want to let her go. He loves her too much, and he will never let her go now that he has learned the extent of things, making the order too much. I told you to be patient I told you to be fine I told you to be balanced I told you to be kind/ She is trying to feel better about herself, but it is a long process. She is asking him to be patient with her, but also to not worry and to live his life, making him "fine" and "balanced." In the morning I'll be with you But it will be a different kind/ She is saying that she will still be with him tomorrow, but only in spirit. I'll be holding all the tickets And you'll be owning all the fines/ She will be the one to commit the deed, but he will be the one who has to suffer the consequences. Come on skinny love what happened here/ At this point, I believe that the girl is watching her love from another world. She wonders how the boy she loved could turn out the way he does. Suckle on the hope in lite brassiere/ A brassiere is a place that sells alcohol, so I believe that he takes up drinking to cope with her suicide. My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Sullen load is full; so slow on the split/ His load is full because he believes he could have saved the girl. The guilt and grief is slowing breaking him. I told you to be patient I told you to be fine/ She told him to be patient because he would find someone else to love. She told him to be fine after she was gone, but he is obviously not. I told you to be balanced I told you to be kind/ She told him to remain the same as he was, but he has slowly turned bitter. He loves her, but he also feels betrayed. He cannot remained balanced, and the anger toward her makes him a different person. Now all your love is wasted? Then who the hell was I?/ He has become so bitter toward the girl that he believes that he wasted his time with her, after all, he wouldn't feel this way if he had never loved her. However, she knows that their love was real, it just hurts him too much to admit it anymore. Now I'm breaking at the britches And at the end of all your lines/ She regrets her decission now, because she knows that he will never quite get over her because of the unanswered questions she left behind her. Who will love you? Who will fight? Who will fall far behind?/ She is asking him who will fight through the hard shell he has built for himself and still love him. She also knows that not many people will bother to try and love him. Come on skinny love My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my/ He has little love for himself now, just as she did. |
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