The Darker Days of Me and Him

This song has always spoken to me on a very personal level. Uh Huh Her was released when I was living across the country with a significant other. The relationship had turned to a nightmare and I was stranded there for about a month before I could return home. For me that whole album holds a lot of those painful memories, but this song in particular felt like it was just for me at that time.

"Tape the broken parts together Limp this love around"

Just brilliant.

Awesome break-up song. Love the line "You taught me a lesson I didn't want to learn"

Pj is one of my favorite artists. In this particular one it's obvious she's feeling drained from a relationship, but I think a lot of her lyrics (at least the ones on relationships) seem to generalize the feeling shes had from several past relationships not just one. The overall feeling coming out of all of them is a sense of there being a reason for her needing to have gone through them "you taught me a lesson i didn't want to learn" but now that she realizes that she wants to just pick up and be in something that isn't so emotionally exhausting.

"With no neuroses And no psychoses No psychoanalysis And no sadness"

"tape the broken parts together, limp this love around" is one of my favorite lyrics when expressing trying to make something work that just isn't meant to be.

Incredibly powerful song. "Limp this love around" is exactly what I'm having to do now. PJ harvey is just amazing. So few words, says so much.

this a great track - sounds like a lou reed riff on the guitar - very nice...

her "please leave quietly" dvd version of this is awsome!

Incorporates a lot of the little-girl/mama relationship references on the album in her longing for home. Seems like a broken prayer for heaven.