| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Midnight Man Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I believe that this song is little more complicated than just a statement of a man who is in relationship with a woman who is looking for someone better (possibly perfect) than him. Here we have a man who is fully committed to a woman and cannot break free from her spell even know that she will never be his wife and we have a woman who is blind and does not see that she had created her ever-loving man a long time ago and he is still around. The first stanza is about the change which she did not notice. She once has a man for a while, they broke up (or are just the close friends which experienced an intimate experiment which is now passé) but he was transformed (a chrysalis) into her ever-loving man and live in her world. While some others including him can see it, she does not. She is occupied by the thoughts of what may could be if she had a man she wishes for (second stanza) - babies being carried away by wolfs. She finds herself miserable and disgusted and surrenders to a world or rather an idea of a world she created waiting for some other unperspective man (midnight man) come around her so she can engage in the mostly sexual relationship with no real tomorrows with him. This is where it gets somehow uncertain for me. I dare to believe that the refrain is about this particular man (a chrysalis or ever-loving man) telling this woman that she is always wanted by everybody, that she is very attractive and any man would like to be by her side for at least a while. What is interesting is a second meaning that lies under the surface- “Everybody want you, even at my house they adore you. But I am here always, being one of them with just one difference- I am still by your side in one sense or another- I am more than them or at least I would like to be.” The next for stanzas are about him being kind of fed up her wails, gloominess and unanswered affection. “Don´t disturb me” and “treat me gentle” because I have my limits as well. And even though she is broken by her way of life she cannot change. But she is blind to the truth and is rather thinking about what might be “dream of your lost sons and daughters”. This is a sad moment when she had the last chance to see the truth, that he was her ever-loving man but rather she did not recognize him even as a potential midnight man no more. Leave me be- “glide up and down the waters”- I will slide this live easily, on my own, with you or without you because I am way too much tired of this situation. In the end even he gets back where he started “Well, I called you once, I called you twice. Ain't I your midnight man”. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – I Let Love In Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song is a perfect example of catharsis present in Cave's songs. If you have ever been into a relationship which has failed terribly you know what I am talking about. Listening to this song you can re-live your memories and once the song's over the fact that a love is a cruel beast which is always after you do not bother you so much. You know that the song is true, you hate the state of mind it is reflecting but once it is done, you feel somehow stoic- once you got it all. | |
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