Favours

Oh god, I just simply love this song, I just wonder why it's (The Delgados I mean) not popular. Poor Indie bands.

But I definitely love the part "And I, I'll try to feel fine while I'm taking orders from bottles wine"

to me it's about a relationship failing with the person, and knowing it won't work out, but at the same time wanting the person to follow you when you leave, and hoping somehow the person can make things right, or at least to help you let go of them.

basically, the person talking seems to love the other person, but is struggling so much with it that they think it's better for her to leave... but she's having a hell of a time leaving at all.<p><b><i>Edited by delial on May 28 2008, at 02:57AM</i></b></p>

This song is reeeeeeally sombre. It details someone's girlfriend finding out that her boyfriend was either cheating or flirting with someone else, so she decks the girl, but gets freaked and runs off. "Started to fight, but I took off in fright Could not believe that she didn't chase me" The guy meets her back at their place, presumably, and they "make up". "Then you came to the fore Not unsurprised, still happy to see you" But something is clearly dead. They try to have sex, but she can't do it, so she drinks the rest of the night off. "Touch without touch, are we feeling too much? I can't decide if I'm feeing able" "And I, I'll try to feel fine While I'm taking orders from bottles of wine" The fact that this song resonates with me this much says a bit too much about my last relationship, lol.

I think the person who commented the very literal interpretation of- the singer's partner was cheating, she attacked the person who partner was cheating with, she couldn't be with partner despite still feeling love and wanting to forgive, gets drunk- but for years I've always had a much less literal interpretation.

I always thought of it as just general nonsense feelings of being unhappy in a relationship, though I thought this particular song was either about a same sex relationship or perhaps the singer was singing from a different perspective. I always thought "climbed on her back/ with an ambush attack" was more of a metaphor for the singer starting an argument for no reason. I thought "could not believe that she didn't chase me" was how some people expect they can walk away from their partner and the partner will still "chase," want to pursue romantically. I thought bits of the song ("down came the briefcase") were kind of nonsense, like her head is a swirl of feelings and she's just kind of looking at everything in the room to distract herself from her feelings. But, having read that other interpretation, it's more likely that and I had quite the very broad explanation of this when I first started listening to it in my teens! I still like my version though 😅 Absolutely a beautiful song.

Emma Pollock has such a sexy voice that really comes through on this tune ;¬)