Come To My Window Lyrics
i was first introduced to this song by south park, in an episode where cartman's mother is messing around with a house-mover. now i what i can say is that those guys really spoiled this song for me. it's such a beautiful and powerful song, love it.
in her autobiography she tells the story behind this song. she was on tour oversees away from her partner. she was trying her hardest to keep their relationship intact but julie was slipping and melissa could feel it. "i would dial the numbers just to listen to your breath" they would be on the phone for hours without saying a word, but listening to julie's breath let her know that she still was holding on. she said she wrote this song for julie as a "hey wait for me to finish doing my thing and then we can do our thing" and said that julie never liked the song. also she claims that this song isn;t about love, it's about desperatly trying to save a love that is inevitably crumbling. check our her autobiography, it talks all about it.
theres really no hidden meaning to this song.
its prety obvious.
she has fallen deeply in love with somebody that is really not accepted my some people.
thats how i take the whole some to my window thing.
crawl inside/ wait by the light of the moon is kinda like she has to kinda kepp this a secret.
but then i dont care what they think/ i dont care what they say/ what do they abou this love anyway. is talking about the fact that she is involved in a lesbain relationship
It's a gay love song and it was a huge gay anthem when it was released in 1994. The lyrics "I don't care what they think/I don't care what they say/What do they know about this love anyway" seals it's meaning. She's saying she doesn't care what straight society thinks anymore and they'll never understand anyway so F them. It was very powerful lyrics for it's time.
I guess it could be a song about addiction but has Melissa Etheridge ever dealt with Drug addiction? She's a supporter of medicinal marijuana but that seems to have come up when she got cancer. Other than that I had been under the impression for the last two years that it was her "coming out" song where she expresses her struggles in lesbian romance.
Anyways, until maybe three years ago I honestly did not even know that Melissa Etheridge was a lesbian (super conservative parents, sheltered life, etc. etc.) but I had heard this song and to me it is and always has been about forbidden love. Apparently she claims that it's not but the verse "I don't care what they think. I don't care what they say. What do they know about this love anyway?" Always struck me as she was in love with someone that was frowned upon. This does not necessarily mean a lesbian relationship (though in this scenario with Melissa Etheridge I suppose that is the case) or a male-male relationship but any relationship that may be considered taboo (Depending on who's watching and where in the country mixed race, mixed economic background, I think there are still places where you can find families that are feuding with children in Romeo and Juliet type scenarios, etc).
I get it now I think. It's not about love or drug addiction. It's about feeling trapped. She's stuck inside this cage (symbolic of how she had to suppress her lesbian stature from the media and outside world) and "the come to my window" line is her hope that someone comes to keep her company not necessarily love but just someone she can open up to so she doesn't feel so alone. "Nothing fills the blackness that has seeped inside my chest" this represents the doubt and loneliness she feels. She wants to come out but society's perspective...
I get it now I think. It's not about love or drug addiction. It's about feeling trapped. She's stuck inside this cage (symbolic of how she had to suppress her lesbian stature from the media and outside world) and "the come to my window" line is her hope that someone comes to keep her company not necessarily love but just someone she can open up to so she doesn't feel so alone. "Nothing fills the blackness that has seeped inside my chest" this represents the doubt and loneliness she feels. She wants to come out but society's perspective of her sexuality has made her question herself and doubt if she should and she feels lonely for reasons already stated. "Promises that I can't keep" Probably relationships she's had in the past where she just hasn't been able to fulfill something that was necessary in the relationship for it to work. Probably a lesbian relationship where not coming out into the open destroyed the bond between them.
this song rocks.
oh my...the things love can drive us to. this song is about wanting so unbelievably badly to be with someone that you can't stand it.
My favorite Melissa Etheridge song. It's simple and touching.
Oh, the crazy things we do for love. I adore the "I don't care" segment. <3
I called my ex one day, when we were still together, and sang this song to her....