| Lorde – 400 Lux Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Lorde's music is so powerful, you wonder if there aren't deeper, darker things than the unusually clever teen musings on the surface. Thus, I was struck by the plausibility of the interpretation that "400 Lux" is about sneaking out, shooting up heroin, nodding-off for and talking as if they have something to say, and then and coming home. Seems like a cooler song. "(You buy me orange juice) We're getting good at this" sounds really stupid. If the song is about heroin, it is anything but. Likewise "Head out the window again" sounds dumb if the lyrics refer to driving around with your boyfriend in the car-- but in the heroin scene, yeah, this kind of thing would happen. Yet, everything overall is kept elusive enough in the lyric that this interpretation is just a guess. The line about "We're wearing long sleeves and the heating comes on" could as well be about the temperature outside. Her Mom's a poet. Her lyrics can't be too silly. | |
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