| Matt Nathanson – Kiss Quick Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this song is about the singer not being able to get the one person that he truly wants. He is imagining being with the girl who would make his fairytale come true but she is too jaded by her own romantic let-downs to give him a chance ('But sleeping beauty just Kept score and tried to sleep more'). Instead she only uses him for a physical relationship ('So stop talking And put your back into it') because she claims that she knows love and it never works out further than the physical aspect in her experience ("I know Love, And it's all push and shove, So stop talking And put your back into it.") therefore she's not willing to give the singer a chance. She keeps her heart protected and distant by being drunk around him ('"I'm not quite, myself tonight, But the way you touch me, oh, makes me tongue tied, That could be the wine too.") so that she can't really tell whether any feelings she feels for him are real or just the alcohol talking. The singer will take what he can get from her but ultimately in the end it hurts him and he doesn't feel good about it but is in love with the idea of the girl so he loves that he is able to be with her in any way. I think he also expresses his frusterations with her by being with other women. He is frusterated that so many other women can be with him, want to be with him, and want to give him everything and a 'fairytale ending' - yet despite all these other women, the only one he wants will not give him anything meaningful. All these other women want to be with him and 'save him' from his broken heart and loneliness, but he doesn't want to give them a chance ('Kiss quick'). |
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