| ODESZA – It's Only (feat. Zyra) Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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The chorus in particular points to the universal nature of love's presence and absence. Elements like 'fire' and 'water' have so many different forms, but each have an overarching 'essence' that we think of, when we see the words, that is more singular and removed. In the same way, the overarching concept of 'love' is also removed, while it is simultaneously expressed in many forms. I wanted to draw parallels between the detachment in the definition of the word 'love' and the feeling of helplessness and distance someone feels from love when love is absent. The narrator of the song faces rejection herself, and portrays her reaction to the power of love's absence with metaphors that express the great extent of her love. In a personal situation where one person is open to love and the other is detached, love can be wonderful and all consuming - where "It's only love" means 'it's nothing but love' - or the very opposite side of the dialogue, where it means 'don't worry about creating an absence of love, it's only love'. The director illustrates the more distant, eternal quality of love's absence by showing scenes throughout history (another overarching concept - rendered impersonal when at a distance) where love has been absent. It illustrates the recurrence of pain, cruelty and betrayal in a very personal way to make you consider our ability to forget the multiplicity of love, in it's personal form, over time. The realisation about humanity that we have as we watch is the realisation the narrator hopes the detached subject will have within her own situation. Source: https://www.facebook.com/zyramusic/posts/1028476397210736?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARChCqALN4c30peCd3fOtu-WvBX7s42_hJs88OSIZQwMf1nCX1uCm5LeAPgSkNX-CFGARABe85g0eFcyaINruyMrIBx-ISwyMxKD63QarKZl0lVIchrHJH-k4Jy22kQU36tkCigDCzbSJfNAM9RAiJ-Iv5e32It1nUg58jSfYnN2x3dv0ju246s9plEurCbfBmIwAzaJlFmMdsL1Js4R3DqxkAcS4wqOV785mnCTBHMyN5wy41LJBVE7Zlc3phmAbJ8VwhkR7F3opLUJajrvR55MgFcdHnA0fjAu2jRRjV3FIwHP1yAAZXxmgg4xPF3fXpDwfPWIulxAoIv5s_YSl22ghw&__tn__=-R |
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