| The Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This is not a song about unrequited love, rather it's about impossible love. This isn't about a guy who wants a girl or wants her back and now she's married. The man and woman in this song had a love affair. The last verse makes that obvious. "It was good what we did yesterday and I'd do it once again". They had sex and he at least would do it again (even though "It's truly, truly a sin"). "The fact that you are married, only proves that you're my best friend" - I think this means she wanted be with him so much, they have such a connection, she was willing to step over the fact that she's married. When you have an affair, you get very infatuated. "Thought of you as my mountain top" "my peak". But since it's an affair it's something he "had but couldn't keep", because she'll never truly be his. He imagines a world "pure and strange" where they could be together, where only love matters and not inconvenient facts like that she's married to someone else. But that is not to be: "skip a life completely, stuff it in a cup". What they are doing is backwards "lies but can't stand up, down for you is up". It can't last. A very sad and beautiful song. She is an ideal and ultimately unkeepable love for him on pedestal and he's doomed to be haunted by her Pale blue eyes. |
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