| The National – I Need My Girl Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I know this most probably isn't the intended meaning for the song, but I think the song could potentially be read as a former drug addict wanting to go back to drugs and referring to the drug as 'his girl'. I actually kind of just assumed that was what the song was about until i read somewhere that the singer had said it was about his wife. Still, this interpretation holds a more or less personal significance to me and i still like it. I always interpreted the whole "I am good, I am grounded (etc)" part as the 'protagonist' of the song saying that now that he's left his addiction behind and has his life more or less back together he knows he should be feeling great but he can't bring himself to because he misses doing drugs. The image of crashing a car into the garden and all that always seemed like a reference to something he might've done while high, and when he mentions he'd "call her" From the party i always imagined the meaning was doing drugs at a party to get away from the loneliness he felt even around people. All in all, what I always interpreted is that the song is about a recovered drug addict who, upon recovering his addiction, realizes that the things that led him to drugs (e.g. Loneliness) are all still there, so he sees no point in not doing drugs anymore and wants to go back, all of this expressed in a really beautiful love song format. After reading other interpretations i definitely don't think this one is the Best one, but I thought i'd share it. |
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| The Pretty Reckless – Follow Me Down Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Woah, I'm actually quite surprised no one has commented on this song yet. Well. What I think is that this song is about a young woman who used to be nice and "pure", let's say, a virgin who barely even thought about sex until a guy comes by and has sex with her and that completely changes her. But the thing here is that she's probably been taught from a young age that sex is bad and has not been told that she could feel lust (she's probably from a religious family? I don't know) and she starts feeling dirty and confused. When she understands she's feeling lust, she starts grows anger for the young man that "ruined" her pure life, goes crazy and either drowns herself in the river or kills the guy and throws his body to the river. See: "Since I met you I've been crazy/Since I've been with you I've been lost" He changed something inside her and she does not fully understand it (AKA she's feeling lust) "Have I lost my mind?" As she doesn't understand lust, she thinks she is simply crazy. "Nights avoiding things unholy/Your hand slips across my skin" She used to be "virgin pure" until he came along "When you're young you always take what you can get... But I am not alive" this whole fragment is about her realising that she's feeling lust and expressing her hatred for how easily she feels it now that she's been initiated sexually. This makes her terribly depressed, she doesn't feel alive anymore. She feels she's not worth anything now that she's sinned. "Follow me down to the river, man/I'll be down here on my knees" She kills herself on the river or throws her lover's corpse in it. Being down on your knees is a symbol of repenting your sins, so basically she's saying that this is her way of showing God that she's repented. So finally, I think this song is about how catholic religion and it's ideas about sex can fuck a person up terribly, to the point of making a person feel like they're worthless monsters for doing and feeling natural things. |
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| The Pretty Reckless – Follow Me Down Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Woah, I'm actually quite surprised no one has commented on this song yet. Well. What I think is that this song is about a young woman who used to be nice and "pure", let's say, a virgin who barely even thought about sex until a guy comes by and has sex with her and that completely changes her. But the thing here is that she's probably been taught from a young age that sex is bad and has not been told that she could feel lust (she's probably from a religious family? I don't know) and she starts feeling dirty and confused. When she understands she's feeling lust, she starts grows anger for the young man that "ruined" her pure life, goes crazy and either drowns herself in the river or kills the guy and throws his body to the river. See: "Since I met you I've been crazy/Since I've been with you I've been lost" He changed something inside her and she does not fully understand it (AKA she's feeling lust) "Have I lost my mind?" As she doesn't understand lust, she thinks she is simply crazy. "Nights avoiding things unholy/Your hand slips across my skin" She used to be "virgin pure" until he came along "When you're young you always take what you can get... But I am not alive" this whole fragment is about her realising that she's feeling lust and expressing her hatred for how easily she feels it now that she's been initiated sexually. This makes her terribly depressed, she doesn't feel alive anymore. She feels she's not worth anything now that she's sinned. "Follow me down to the river, man/I'll be down here on my knees" She kills herself on the river or throws her lover's corpse in it. Being down on your knees is a symbol of repenting your sins, so basically she's saying that this is her way of showing God that she's repented. So finally, I think this song is about how catholic religion and it's ideas about sex can fuck a person up terribly, to the point of making a person feel like they're worthless monsters for doing and feeling natural things. |
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| The Pretty Reckless – Follow Me Down Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Woah, I'm actually quite surprised no one has commented on this song yet. Well. What I think is that this song is about a young woman who used to be nice and "pure", let's say, a virgin who barely even thought about sex until a guy comes by and has sex with her and that completely changes her. But the thing here is that she's probably been taught from a young age that sex is bad and has not been told that she could feel lust (she's probably from a religious family? I don't know) and she starts feeling dirty and confused. When she understands she's feeling lust, she starts grows anger for the young man that "ruined" her pure life, goes crazy and either drowns herself in the river or kills the guy and throws his body to the river. See: "Since I met you I've been crazy/Since I've been with you I've been lost" He changed something inside her and she does not fully understand it (AKA she's feeling lust) "Have I lost my mind?" As she doesn't understand lust, she thinks she is simply crazy. "Nights avoiding things unholy/Your hand slips across my skin" She used to be "virgin pure" until he came along "When you're young you always take what you can get... But I am not alive" this whole fragment is about her realising that she's feeling lust and expressing her hatred for how easily she feels it now that she's been initiated sexually. This makes her terribly depressed, she doesn't feel alive anymore. She feels she's not worth anything now that she's sinned. "Follow me down to the river, man/I'll be down here on my knees" She kills herself on the river or throws her lover's corpse in it. Being down on your knees is a symbol of repenting your sins, so basically she's saying that this is her way of showing God that she's repented. So finally, I think this song is about how catholic religion and it's ideas about sex can fuck a person up terribly, to the point of making a person feel like they're worthless monsters for doing and feeling natural things. |
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