| The Psychedelic Furs – Pretty in Pink Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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hey everybody ! thanks for your interesting thoughts here ! I give you my reflections after reading all your posts "Caroline laughs and It's raining all day" For me, Caroline is an optimistic girl, a bit naive, a bit self-centered or offset with no social intelligence, that makes her appear a bit weird even if she's really pretty. " She loves to be one of the girls" She wants to be loved and be considered, be part of the chosen few in the college or so and she's sure she is because in her eyes, the boys seems very interested in her. "She lives in the place In the side of our lives Where nothing is Ever put straight." This sentence I think, refers to everyone's ("our") part of hypocrisy, especially young men with girls they'd like to simply catch. This place of our soul where we make concessions with our conscience to get what we want. "She turns herself round And she smiles and she says 'This is it' 'That's the end of the joke'" don't really get the meaning here Does she always show a polite and well-educated face, in order to appear pleasant to anybody but eventually and mostly a bit boring and tasteless? "And loses herself In her dreaming and sleep And her lovers walk Through in their coats" easily abused by smooth talkers telling her what she wants to ear they just fuck her, then get dressed and walkaway as she's sleeping " All of her lovers All talk of her notes And the flowers That they never sent And wasn't she easy And isn't she Pretty in pink" in this part, the interpretation by some of you that it could be a scene during her funeral is interesting. I love it for it makes this song even darker an poignant, cause we naturally think it's a suicide, because if "all of her lovers" are there together, so this occurred within a short period of time (classmates?) So she may once have realized the sad truth on her life. "He's walking around In this dress That she wore" The guys are talking about her, boasting to have known her carnally and not even remember her name but still mocking her, even imitating her ? This also shows the conformist and superficial way people can act. "She is gone But the joke's the same" Even dead, she's still unconsidered by her "lovers" "Caroline talks to you softly sometimes...") The last paragraph could be related with this idea and this way, it would sound like remorse The "you" could be heard as "anyone" referring to the "our" in this "side of our lives" in the beginning. A little voice in the head, Caroline's voice mixed with our conscience one, dealing with the consequences of the abusing someone weak.. As one of you has noticed here, the sentence "I love you too much" is split in two. Could be a way to express the obsessional that has become the feeling of guilt, this thought coming in wave over and over again. Some souvenirs of her surface, realizing how gentle she was " She buttons your shirt" " She hands you this coat" when at least her "lover" consider her in an other way, by putting himself in her shoes(" She gives you her clothes")... lost in his thoughts did he crashes his car ? ps: person my english for it's not my natural language ;) |
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