| Angel Olsen – Unfucktheworld Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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"I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you" That kind of love that intoxicates you and makes you forget what your own priorities were: school, career, personal, etc. The person can become so "addicting" that it's all you think about. You'll self-sabotage if it means just spending a moment with them. You'll self-sacrifice for them, sometimes in unhealthy ways. You stop focusing on everything else. Your mind is almost always on them and you struggle to think of anything else. (See the song by Mickey & Silvia 'Love Will Make You Fail In School') "I started dancing just to be around you" Could be implying a way to appear most appealing to lure them towards you? Picking up hobbies/interests of theirs that normally weren't yours, albeit out of character or something you're not normally into. Sometimes compromising yourself for a moment of their presence. "Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more" This line makes me think this leans more towards a flirtationship/nothing defined or tied a committed label to. Not a committed relationship gone sour. "I kept my mouth shut and opened up the door" Silencing yourself, your heart, your hurt and stepping forward (opening the door to go forward regardless) - falling deeply for the person even if it's self-sabotaging. There's a line from The National that can be used here "All the very best of us string ourselves up for love." Sometimes in relationships we allow our boundaries to be crossed, when we normally wouldn't, because we are blinded by feelings of love. The alternative could be (given the next lyric) as simple as leaving. "I wanted nothing but for this to be the end For this to never be a tied and empty hand" These two lines in collaboration, to me, allude to the end of searching for the "one who completes us" or will be our life partner/other half. Expressing that you really REALLY wanted this to work out. 'Tied and empty hand' imply lack of control over the situation or the other person of them giving you nothing. "If all the trouble in my heart would only mend" My interpretations are two here: Grieving and wishing away the pain from the heartbreak. Second could also be, but probably projecting here, that maybe their headspace isn't doing so well because of this relationship coming to an end. When you're in deep emotional pain and there's no escape, you just wish you would get over it already so it would stop from hurting so much. "I lost my dream, I lost my reason all again" The way you feel lost/forgot who you were after you've been met with heartbreak that you lost sight of yourself in. Maybe you spent years learning to be your own motivator then this person comes along and become a habit of being the thing that drives you. Especially one in which you gave and received little to nothing back. Not all heartbreak results in you feeling lost in this way but sometimes it can cause negative traits coming out such as (as forementioned the first verse) giving up yourself, dreams and ambitions because you fell so deeply into doing what you could for them. "It's not just me for you I have to look out too I have to save my life I need some peace of mind" This is why I feel it was definitely the latter of the relationships I previously mentioned - one that didn't fully develop into a mutually committed relationship. A relationship that may have caused you so much conflict within yourself from the desperation, confusion, wanting to prove you're worth the investment by overexerting yourself that you put yourself on the back burner. |
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