Long Shot Lyrics
You fucked it up
You should've quit
'Til circumstances
Had changed a bit - ah
You jumped the gun
I swore you off but
You climbed back on
Of course you know
Could I be blamed
If I'd wished it so
I don't think so
Or was it you
'Cause when you said it
I said it too
What of it
I knew before
Just turned into
Please love me more (x 6)
Please love me
One of Aimee's mini-masterpieces. To move from an angry "you fucked it up" to a pleading "please love me more" in the course of a single song is heartbreakingly beautiful.
Actually, I don't think the narrating character in the song is changing her tone at all. She's not the one saying, "please love me more."
Actually, I don't think the narrating character in the song is changing her tone at all. She's not the one saying, "please love me more."
I get the impression that this song is about the passion paradox (the more you like a person, the less they like you back).
I get the impression that this song is about the passion paradox (the more you like a person, the less they like you back).
I imagine the person she's talking about is someone who was at one time in the beginnings of a romantic relationship with the narrator, who didn't find him interesting enough to pursue a long-term thing with. The rejected party then stepped up his efforts to win her over,...
I imagine the person she's talking about is someone who was at one time in the beginnings of a romantic relationship with the narrator, who didn't find him interesting enough to pursue a long-term thing with. The rejected party then stepped up his efforts to win her over, but those efforts only served to reinforce her original decision. The first verse suggests that perhaps if he hadn't been so eager he may have had another chance a little later. The second verse sounds like the suitor was moving too fast. The third and fourth verses I think are about an admission of deeper feelings, which the narrator feels a little guilty for not quashing then and there. And the last verse is her realizing that anything this person does to be nice for her is just a plea for her to return his affections.
At least that's how I see it.
The guitar riff between the verses sounds just like the intro to "Up The Junction" by Squeeze. I think it had to be deliberate!