| Sufjan Stevens – Too Much Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| To me this song is about the narrator having a failed encounter with a girl. The girl just wants things to be casual and easy, but the narrator is taking things too seriously and scares her away. When he says, "If I was a different man/I could have read your mind/But now I'm lonely as that/I'm so sorry I tried Love," I think this means that if he was a different type of person he could have picked up on what the girl really wanted. But now that he "Put up a fight," to her advances he feels, "Lonely as that." Perhaps the narrator is just desperate to connection with someone and is now regretting that he didn't see what the situation was and act differently. The line, "I'm so sorry I tried Love," makes me think that he was comparing this girl to his other relationships where he was truly in love. The repeated, "There's too much riding on that anyway," means that hooking up would have had too much significance to him anyway because he is not the type of person that could just hook up without emotion. The second verse with "Maybe I talk too fast/Maybe I talk too much" shows how he was analyzing how he was doing in this encounter and trying to figure out why it wasn't going right. The line "Even if I could have kissed/Even if I could be the blind" represent how even if he could have taken the leap and gotten physical, he would have just been "The blind," i.e. the type of people who have one night stands and don't feel emotion. The narrator questions analyzes his own position when he says "I'm so sorry I tried love," because he now compares every relationship he has with girls, to his experiences with true love. | |
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