| Kings of Convenience – Mrs. Cold Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this is definitely a love song - you could base an entire chick flick or a nice subplot to the story behind it. It's great. I don't think "Mrs. Cold" is married to a real person, but she's married to her emotional distancing. She's afraid of relationships and the pain that they've brought her. Keeping an emotional arms-length is the only way she can protect herself. But the storyteller's broken through her barrier in a way that she didn't expect. It scares her and she doesn't know how to deal with the feelings she's staved off for so long. "You waited too long/You should've hooked me before I put my raincoat on" I think is a great line. I can see her standing there in front of him, not saying anything but wanting to and him being completely oblivious to what she's feeling. She tries to grab him at the last minute as he's walking into the rain, but he can't feel it. The raincoat deadens him to her touch (or deafens him to her wanting to stay), which he has no reason to expect. She reads too much into his appearance of dismissal and is hurt by it. I think in the second verse, "Mrs. Cold" confronts the storyteller about dismissing her and he realizes that she's lost her "control" of her feelings; there's a hole in her emotional barrier. It's literally a flood of emotion coming out of it at once. She can neither verbalize it or she has trouble articulating it ("and you lost your tongue")but it's not coming out in a controlled, calm manner, nor does it make sense to him ("you lost me, deaf in my ear"). I think that she tries to repair the damage of her irrationality (make things normal again) by perhaps telling him that her reaching for him was unintentional and that she doesn't really care for him. She might be even saying things to intentionally hurt him. But none of it works. He still cares for her very much and now he knows that despite her distancing, she feels the same way. "What is love?/It's a game that we're playing and we can't get enough of," I believe, is a reference to the "relationship" they had before Mrs. Cold lost her handle on it. His flirting and showing affection and her refusal of it or pretending to be numb to it was how they both demonstrated their feelings for each other. I get the feeling that now that he really knows the truth about her feelings, the game has to change. |
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