| Miike Snow – Silvia Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| Nymphomania is not so much a life path but a way to cope and numb oneself from pain. I think the song makes it clear that she’s already “dead” emotionally dead/emotionally unavailable for a monogamous relationship, a stable life. | |
| Miike Snow – Silvia Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[Alwaysinterested:33846] These interpretations are on point. I want to add that a nymph is “a mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden inhabiting rivers, woods, or other locations.” I think this song is about a man that has fallen for a nymphomaniac. The song starts in 3rd person and ends in 1st person. Throughout she is described as being emotionally unavailable. In the end the man that loved her possibly accepted her nature “And your voice calls out for the Coup de grace” somewhat indicating that she may have continued on her path of Nymphomania with another or she may possibly be struggling to stop continuing the life path she’s on. In the end the lover has accepted that he may possibly be forgotten at night “When the lights go out will their be a trace?” as she continues on her life path of Nymphomania. | |
| Crystal Castles – Vanished Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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The whole song sounds like a dissociation. A dissociated dream like love. Love is in the eye of the beholder. I think this song is about two night life’s falling in love. Ironically, they have not as much fallen in love for each other but rather have put a face on their promiscuity/lust. The singer is the storyteller and explains his love story of her. In the beginning of the song it is explained how both are their to stay in their promiscuity/lust, hungry for strays at night. Yet both catch feelings, one of them trying to prove to the other that he himself is not as cold hearted as she perceives him as being another sex partner. The one trying to prove that he is not cold hearted is hungry for life as in trying to break away from promiscuity/lust in companionship with her. He is trying to help her see their addiction. She continues to give him pity by fueling her promiscuity and his lust bond with her through sex. He remains optimistic that she will see the addiction they are in and will eventually fight it yet she continues to fuel the addiction jumping through clubs city to city. (The city is symbolic of the wide availability in options for the night life/promiscuity to continue because she can’t resist her addiction. In the darkness of promiscuity and lust the killer of the spirit and adolescence awaits). She continues to lie to herself about her addiction, having sex with others to continue her dissociated life. (He mentions how she keeps on dancing to her own lies living in her own movie. In psychiatry dissociation is said to feel like living life through a movie). He can see that deep down in her heart she is innocent (her heart singing to him) but he realizes that he as well is dissociated and begins to physically run to beat his blood and help him find a healthy distraction to heal, her memories of him will soon be all she’s left with as he begins to shift his emotional pain to physical. This is where hope for them is beginning to shift to hope for himself as he comes to awareness with how lost he had become. (Hungry for stray, hungry for life, no invitate your pity). He sees where he is in life. He sees his own addiction, his own desire to change, and he knows that in order to move on he can no longer accept her sex as pity. (I don’t want sex but you give it). Final stanza: As he’s breaking away from their addiction/circle of lust he explains that he didn’t regret trying to save her yet it saddens he has to leave her behind to her own lust. He has made peace with himself on how he tried, she has taken her own life through lust. The life of promiscuity/lust, some are deep into it that it feels like a must. He no longer wants in nor wants to be pressured for not joining in on the bond of lust they had. In the end he has yet not healed for he has hatred. |
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