You're The Storm

To me, this is a song about passion. The girl is daring the guy to invade her heart and conquer it. "Love me, if you think you are up to it," she is saying. "End the monotony of my peaceful existence. Bring me your desires and your mind and your heart. You're most of the way there. Do not be afraid. I long for respite from complacency. Deliver me to somewhere wonderful with you "

It is not peace that brings satisfaction. It is the taking of chances and the uncertainty. It is pursuing what you believe in.

What a beautiful song. Love is not about harmony. It is about passion in all things. If that is not there, then harmony will just be boredom rather than a forward motion.

BJ Thomas

This is definitely a song about the American war in the Middle East--from a Swede's point of view. Don't you see all the war terms? I guess it could be about love or sex too, but there is DEFINITELY a war theme going on here. It's all over the song, people!

I pretty sure this song has nothing to do with war. It's about love and that she met a man that changed her life and gave her the exitment she needed. Her life was boring and peacefull before, but then she met a man that made her life exiting and opend her eyes.

Parts like "come and conquer and drop your bombs, cross my borders and kill the calm" are just metaphors. This part means come and conquer my heart and cross the boarders into my life and make it exiting.

I can't believe no one commented on this one...it's the only song by The Cardigans that I really love. It's a beautiful love song really, in it's own way.

yeah one of my favorites by them if not the best

It's a girl who craves the "storm" she has with this guy. My best friend and I used to argue a lot and challenge each other, and when we started dating we just became really sweet all the time and wonderful. It was nice, and it made me happy, and he was a great boyfriend, but the sweetness is not what I started dating him for, it's not why I became crazy about him in the first place. The way we used to challenge each other, the "stormy" but solid relationship that we had at first, the way we balanced each other out together, THAT'S what I believed in - "I like the sweet life and the silence, but it's the storm that I believe in." I love the line "And if you want me, I'm your country." I would be perfectly happy watching as he tears into my life and takes me over - I want to feel out of control, I want him to bring me to life that way, with that passion and intensity that we had at first.

This song is one of my favorites ever. It's so beautiful.

Those lyrics above are wrong. Here are the real lyrics from the Cardigans' official website:

oh it's healing - bang bang bang I can hear your cannons call you've been aiming at my land your hungry hammer is falling

and if you want me I'm your country

I'm an angel bored like hell and you're a devil meaning well you steal my lines and you strike me dumb come raise your flag upon me

and if you want me I'm your country if you win me I'm forever - oh yeah!

'cause you're the storm that I've been needing and all this peace has been deceiving I like the sweet life and the silence but it's the storm that I believe in

come and conquer and drop your bombs cross my borders and kill the calm bear your fangs and burn my wings I hear bullets singing

and if you want me I'm your country if you win me I'm forever - oh yeah!

'cause you're the storm that I've been needing and all this peace has been deceiving I need some wind to get me sailing so it's the storm that I believe in

you fill my heart, you keep me breathing 'cause you're the storm that I believe in

and if you want me I'm your country

Yes, I agree that it's about love, but it's also very political, don't you think? That's how some countries are. For some reason, they get bored like hell with peace, so they start wars.

The war words are just diction- she is choosing them to set up and support her metaphor which is what everyone has been saying love/sex.

I think its both love and sex. She recognizes she loves him and he is good for her. Now, she wants to challenge him to make her seize her and take things to a new level. I think it doubles to challenge him to not only have sex with her but to want her all to himself all the time. Oh yeah. I love this song.

I want to like this song, but i have a hard time with them romanticizing war. whatever.