| Foxing – Rory Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Maybe it’s obvious, but I think this song is about unrequited love, and how the protagonist is trying (and seemingly failing) to deal with it. He seems desperate to win someone back, and I love the rawness of the simple chorus where he just screams “why” over and over; his anger at his sheer misapprehension of the requited aspect of his love dominating him. This is accompanied beautifully by the imagery in the verses. I especially like the juxtaposition of the object of his love in a picturesque house somewhere, just silent, not even engaging his pleas anymore and beginning to accept that it is over, and the protagonist inviting insects to build a home in his head, perhaps in a desperate attempt to not feel quite so alone. In the first verse, he is clinging to the fact that he’s a “good man” and that his heart is huge and weighty, and he thinks this should be enough for someone to love him, though you sense he knows somewhere deep down that it isn’t, and that love doesn’t work like that. |
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