| Duran Duran – The Seventh Stranger Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I have read the above comments and never once thought this song was about fame and how it changes how people see you and you aren't anonymous anymore. I always thought this was an unrequited love song. "Was I chasing after rainbows? One thing for sure, you never answered when I called. And I wiped away the water from my face To look through the eyes of a stranger" To me this is about chasing, believing in, and pursuing a relationship only to discover that the other person wasn't as commited as you.. He was chasing after rainbows thinking she was the one She ended things and didn't pick up the phone now he's lost and devestated not knowing how to move on and feeling like a stranger to himself because he doesn't know who he is without her anymore. this verse "And I'm not seized in desperation, No steel reproaches on the table from before. But I still can feel those splinters of ice I look through the eyes of a stranger" The first above line seems to me like a denial of the desperation he is sezined in. reproach = disapproval. - he is talking about how with the ending of a relationship, the disappointments that are often shared in a glance at the dinner table are gone, but he still feels the 'splinters of ice' = piercing staires the way somebody who doesn't love yo uanymore stares in a hating way.. and the confusion of the misinterpretation of the relationship means she is a stranger, and he himself feels like a stranger to himself To me, the entire song is unrequited love and nothing about fame. |
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