| Halsey – Sorry Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I think Sorry looks into Halsey’s insecurities and the way in which her previous partner made her feel like rubbish, and this damaged the relationship that came after. I think she uses the term “unknow lover” because she wants to add an anonymity to the song. However, the overarching message of the song is how she’s sorry she couldn’t love someone else, because she couldn’t even love herself. She says “Sorry to my unknow lover, sorry that I can’t believe anybody could ever really start to fall in love with me” this simply states that she’s so insecure and broken to even really see the connection someone else had with her. Her insecurities can be confirmed in the second verse where she says “I never really understood the way you laid your eyes on me in ways that no one ever could”. The part in which she sees how harsh she was in the relationship is when she says “And so it seems I broke your heart My ignorance has struck again I failed to see it from the start And tore you open 'til the end”. I think the light but powerful piano ballad looks into the detriments of her previous relationship ahd how she couldn’t seem to love someone else because of how she couldn’t love herself. She’s apologising for almost being blind to the situation and how she was treating a new partner how her ex partner used to. |
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| Halsey – 100 Letters Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| When at her show only a few days ago she explained the song to us and she said that she used to have a boyfriend that would leave messages in the pockets of all her pants, usually saying things along the lines of “You’re beautiful, I love you”. And the audience thought it was so beautiful until she said “but unfortunately he treated me like s***”. She said that he treated her like she was nothing (hence the line ‘he said “one day I would realise why i don’t have any friends), and that it wasn’t for a really long time that she found her worth and what she believes she is, which was a lot more than her ex put her down to be (hence the line, ‘I said I’m not something to butter up and taste when you get bored’). Anyway, she said that months after they broke up she would still find all those notes in her pants and so she got jack of it and took every single pair of pants she had and threw them in the wash, hoping to drown every single note left, thus the line: ‘You wrote 100 letters just for me. And I find them in my closet in the pockets of my jeans. Now I’m constantly reminded of the time I was 19, every single one’s forgotten in a laundromat machine’. | |
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