| The Funeral Suits – All Those Friendly People Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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To me this song's teaching a lesson about not taking people for face value. 'All those friendly people' is the song writer being sarcastic, and he's really implying that 'all those friendly people' are just bad people in disguise. It tells a story about (going by the official music video) a woman who always stayed at home, never gaining the life experience you really need to survive out in the real world. (Hid away ’til I was eighteen, only saw colours on a TV screen) She met a man who she believed would be her prince charming, saving her from her current life in a city which she felt was slowly killing her. (Take me take me far away, from this city’s soul decay) Due to her lack of life experience she believed everything this man told her, never questioning his motives. (I am young and I an naïve, tell me something I will believe) Little did she know that what she thought she knew about the man was all a façade, a mask. In truth he took her in so he could control and manipulate her. (Life for you is shades of grey - *this is important.* It is referencing 50 shades of grey which is a book all about a man who wants to dominate and control every aspect of her through their relationship after she foolishly falls for his vast wealth and outside charm) She gets trapped in a relationship with him where she feels like she's drowning, probably because he won't let her leave. (Slide into the sea, landslide coming down on me) He tries to change her to be what he wanted, envisioning an almost lifeless woman to do his bidding. (You said in the time the pain would pass) This idea terrifies her, and she runs away, escaping from him into the world. That's where she is now, writing this song on some motorway. This is the only interpretation I could come up with that fitted in with the music video for the song. The man involved is represented in a mask and acts like he's doing a stage performance. You can see how forceful he is with her throughout the video. The two men in pig masks represent the idea of what the both of them should be, an idea which he tries to force on her and which scares her off. |
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