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Mockingbird Lyrics
Here come the nightingales
Or could it be the mockingbird?
They're at my windowsill
They flew in as soon as they heard
Enter the doctor and the nurse
Say my condition's getting worse
They take my pulse and shake their heads
They recommend I stay in bed
They say you are my condition
You are indecision
You, what is wrong with you?
You say you love me but you don't love me
You say you hate me but you don't hate me
You say you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Because you love me
What's it gonna be?
What is wrong with you is what is wrong with me
Here goes nothing
I just swallowed the pill
The room's spinning out of control
Although I'm lying still
And those mockingbirds
They're hovering above
They're talking back and forth
About the trouble with our love
You say you love me but you don't love me
You say you hate me but you don't hate me
You say you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Because you love me
What's it gonna be?
What is wrong with you...
Oh my God, I think I've actually lost the plot
Oh my God, my brain is fried and my nerves are shot
And why not?
You say: "Control me, no, don't control me,"
You say: "Hold me, no, don't hold me,"
You say you'd marry me but you can't marry me
Because you love me but you don't love me
Because you hate me but you don't hate me
Because you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Here come the mocking birds...
Because you love me but you don't love me
Because you hate me but you don't hate me
Because you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Because you love me
What's it gonna be?
What is wrong with you is what is wrong with me
Or could it be the mockingbird?
They're at my windowsill
They flew in as soon as they heard
Say my condition's getting worse
They take my pulse and shake their heads
They recommend I stay in bed
They say you are my condition
You are indecision
You, what is wrong with you?
You say you hate me but you don't hate me
You say you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Because you love me
What's it gonna be?
What is wrong with you is what is wrong with me
I just swallowed the pill
The room's spinning out of control
Although I'm lying still
And those mockingbirds
They're hovering above
They're talking back and forth
About the trouble with our love
You say you hate me but you don't hate me
You say you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Because you love me
What's it gonna be?
What is wrong with you...
Oh my God, my brain is fried and my nerves are shot
And why not?
You say: "Hold me, no, don't hold me,"
You say you'd marry me but you can't marry me
Because you love me but you don't love me
Because you hate me but you don't hate me
Because you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Because you hate me but you don't hate me
Because you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Because you love me
What's it gonna be?
What is wrong with you is what is wrong with me
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He's asking, "Are you ever going to realize that you really do suck so much, but I love you. When are you going to quit being a stupid indesicive girl and just love me, the me you I am and love me back?"
But there is more there too: He sees that it is about him too, that he has made her like this. Maybe she is needy or something, like, she needs to know that he will always be there ... what is wrong with you is what is wrong with me ... what we both can't realize.
He wants to let her know that he'll do whatever he needs to do though to make everything OK.
There is something wrong with the lyrics though, I was certain that he said, "need" in one line [??]
"A postcard dispatched from a patient in the hospital of love. Diagnosis: Mild insanity, induced by the indecision and contradictions of one's beloved. Is that faint sound the sweet song of a nightingale, or the deceptive call of the lying mockingbird? The patient's condition grows increasingly unstable."
this almost describes how i feel! so so close. its such a good song. i think its just about some one being confused, but not, at the same time, and just not knowing what to do.
this almost describes how i feel! so so close. its such a good song. i think its just about some one being confused, but not, at the same time, and just not knowing what to do.
Adam remained unconscious after a car accident in 1990 (he was about to turn 18) and remained in hospital during 7 months in Canada : I think that's what he says at the beginning.