| Fever Ray – Concrete Walls Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Oh yes, also the line is "when I took her up she was so warm" and "In my arms she was so warm" The word being Was, not is. This implies the baby is no longer warm, is in fact cold and dead. | |
| Fever Ray – Concrete Walls Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I took this as a much darker song. I don’t find any warmth in it at all, just disturbing tones and the underlying sense of sadness and insanity. (I still like it though) I agree it’s about a newborn, but I saw it as a song about a new mother who cracks under the pressure of having a baby (perhaps was forced into it) and kills the child. I live between Concrete Walls to be has a double meaning. The concrete walls of a prison cell (for the crime) and the “prison cell” she lived in when she was forced to have the child, feeling trapped by something that took over her life she didn’t want. The lines about “In my arms she was so warm” seem almost as if the singer is surprised in a detached way, as if she is trying to figure out in the moments of death how warm the child still was. “Eyes are open the Mouth Cries”- Not “her mouth” but :”the mouth” dehumanizing the crying baby as a thing not a person. Especially in the sense of the negative..like all the baby is a crying mouth, and needy eyes. “Oh how I try, I leave the TV on and the radio”- Distractions, maybe even a metaphor for denial of what she’s done. Basically I try to let myself get lost in these distractions rather than think of what I’ve done. “I try” maybe even refers to the fact that in a prison they would not let you have a TV or the Radio all the time. Maybe the “tv” is in her head, imagining things rather than facing them. |
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