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Your sorry eyes, they cut through bone
They make it hard to leave you alone
Leave you here wearing your wounds
Waving your guns at somebody new
Baby, you're lost
Baby, you're lost
Baby, you're a lost cause
There's too many people you used to know
They see you coming, they see you go
They know your secrets and you know theirs
This town is crazy, nobody cares
Baby, you're lost
Baby, you're lost
Baby, you're a lost cause
I'm tired of fighting
I'm tired of fighting
Fighting for a lost cause
There's a place where you are going
You ain't never been before
No one laughing at your back now
No one standing at your door
That's what you thought love was for
Baby, you're lost
Baby, you're lost
Baby, you're a lost cause
I'm tired of fighting
I'm tired of fighting
Fighting for a lost cause
They make it hard to leave you alone
Leave you here wearing your wounds
Waving your guns at somebody new
Baby, you're lost
Baby, you're lost
Baby, you're a lost cause
There's too many people you used to know
They see you coming, they see you go
They know your secrets and you know theirs
This town is crazy, nobody cares
Baby, you're lost
Baby, you're lost
Baby, you're a lost cause
I'm tired of fighting
I'm tired of fighting
Fighting for a lost cause
There's a place where you are going
You ain't never been before
No one laughing at your back now
No one standing at your door
That's what you thought love was for
Baby, you're lost
Baby, you're lost
Baby, you're a lost cause
I'm tired of fighting
I'm tired of fighting
Fighting for a lost cause
Lyrics submitted by I Shoot Starz, edited by MuuCowOfDeath, guydeboredom
Lost Cause Lyrics as written by Beck David Hansen
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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hi madison. ok ... your first post, and this is just my take on the song:
"there's a place you are going you ain't never been before"
[ considering beck wrote this song after a long relationship turned sour, i take this as meaning that they've been together so long that they can't remember what life was like for them without eachother]
"there's no one laughing at your back now no one standing at your door is that what you thought love was for?"
[he feels like he's weighing her down, and keeping her from living her life. "standing at your door" just emphasizes how they spent every day together, he is constantly "at her door." and "is that what you thought love was for" just implies to me the misconceptions we all have about love. IMO, it's supposed to be sarcastic.
your second post is a bit easier for me.
"leave you here wearing your wounds"
[basically he's saying he has decided to end it, even if it hurts her (wearing her wounds) i.e. emotional wounds]
"waving your guns at somebody new"
[either she has already found somebody new, or he feels replaceable and that she will in the near future (my opinion is with the latter). he's imagining her with someone else, and basically he's saying that she'll probably end up fighting (waving your guns) with him everyday too.