| The Gaslight Anthem – Halloween Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Very first line: "Sympathy, this is my best disguise" Meaning: To hide how much I need it, I give it to others (Sympathy) Line: My skin stepped out for my bones to dry up. for the rest of the world outside to see Meaning: Right now, I can't maintain my disguise. Could mean the person is feeling too tired or dead to keep up what he was doing to hide how he is feeling. Now everyone can see whats really going on with him easily. this leads into the rest of the lines about bleeding on the side. He spends most of his time being this other person but every once in a while he breaks down and can't keep the pain in, but tries to do so quietly. The lines about not initially recognizing the person, because they look like "my love" could indicate that this is a person who he saw as a friend initially but looking the way they do reminded him of a recently lost love. Possibly feelings for that person are not being transmitted to this one who he may previously have not given much thought to. The lines "Are you dressed up to take my life" to me indicates initial depressed feelings being reminded of this other person. We keep it coming could refer to the party he is at continuing on while these emotions are going on inside him. They just go on like normal till he knows if he wants to act on his feelings or knows what this other person is intending by looking the way she does. Is this person putting him on or trying to tell him something? Do they have a connection or is this her own disguise. |
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