| Franz Ferdinand – Your Diary Lyrics | 8 months ago |
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Note: I'm talking about the studio versions lyrics, not the live lyrics posted here. I think this song is written about a breakup, months on, from the perspective of the rebound. Left alone in her room, he reads her diary and finds that all the things she says to him are the same as what she said to her ex. This is further supported by him prying about what she loved about her ex; "He's asking you why you loved him", where 'he' is the rebound and 'him' is the ex. Yet the girl can't reply, hiding her reasons in her diary because she knows she is just trying to relive what she lost with the rebound. When the rebound finds out he is livid "ripped page and petals, ripped to the blood" and he leaves her stating "But I didn't and don't want you ever to read, Any diary of mine and word I may leave now" meaning he doesn't want her to find the words he writes about another girl and look for herself in it as that would start the whole cycle again. Our rebound however still has the tug of curiosity; "Your diary, your diary, your diary, open and inviting me back", the repetition of this chorus would suggest that the cycle lives on in him. He's left wondering if she writes about him now, if he should get back with her as her diary is "open and inviting me back". |
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