This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Only through struggle have I found rest
With a piece of me taken away
I begin to understand
Hollow out this machine like chest
With its gears that turn to make me feel
And assembled thoughts that fade away
Remove from me
This deception that I call love
With a piece of me taken away
I begin to understand
Hollow out this machine like chest
With its gears that turn to make me feel
And assembled thoughts that fade away
Remove from me
This deception that I call love
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The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Just A Little Lovin'
Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
"'Just a Little Lovin’ is a timeless country song originally recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1954. The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals. It delves into the universal theme of love and how even the smallest gesture of affection can have a profound impact on our lives." https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-just-a-little-lovin-by-eddy-arnold/
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
This song means to me that when youre being decieved you need to see what its doing to you. Its about seeing that youre being controlled by powers that you dont need to be. He says "remove from me this deception that i call love" he means that love is a deception when its misused, like with addiction, or with any kind of addiction. He says only through struggle have i found rest, he means that only through a battle of , sweat and tears can we succeed in beating the demons that lie deep inside the soul. He then says that with a piece of me taken away, sometimes that happens, you feel that because youre fighting your personal demons that you feel like you lose a piece of who you are. Its about being able to yell in the face of your demon and tell it no.
This is FOR ME, the best interpretation of the song lyrics. I am honestly moved by the following line, "Only through struggle have I found rest". When I was still on my darkest and down days, I happened to listen to the song, contemplated on the lyrics and this meaning also came up to my mind, that only through a fierce battle can we succeed in battling our inner demons. I have fought addiction for 2 years and I have bled and shed buckets of tears and blood. And it's the best fight I ever fought.
I think there is more than JUST being deceived about love. I think it is about how the world wants to take each individual and conform him into a robot with gears that turn to make emotions and assembled thoughts. Only through struggle are we able to break this mold and have the machine in our chest removed.
I believe this song is addressing humanity as a whole and not just Christians since we aren't the only ones that can fall into an almost robotic mold.
the breakdown at the end of this song owns
this song seems to me to be about a tainted perception of what love realy is perhaps the writer felt the way he looked for love wasent right and he wants God to help him fix it
yeah, i agree with most of yall i think it is about the mainstream version of "love" not being what love is suposed to be and he wants the real Love not what everyone thinks love is
I think you nailed it in that only sentence!
I agree with everything that's been said here.
I'd just like to add that I love the dark feeling of these lyrics. I love the fact that they are Christians, and still have such a dark, raw vision, which is also very profound. I think the song is about the recognition that life is a bitch, existence and human condition themselves can be big bitches sometimes, and when you get to face them, you can only count on you. You MUST count on you.
I think the story present in the videoclip illustrates this wonderfully. The old man hasn't got his heart. Life/existence was bitch enought to steal it, to dilacerate his whole heart. And still he BUILT a new one... he built a heart BY his own, FOR his own... can you imagine how PWNING that is? How wonderfull this metaphor is? The videoclip just blew my mind for that!
remove from me this deception that i called love to me this means remove from me what i think ture love is. give me the real meaning of love
THis song is fucking awesome. I personally think the song is about defeating some great obsticale in your life and not letting ignorant people in you life, that only what to fuck up your life...my two cents...lol... As I Lay Dying ROCKS!!!
Am I the only person who thinks this line sounds better as "With its gears that grind to make me feel" or am I just crazy?
i totally understood the the meaning of this song when i could apply it too myself. i think it is jsut for times in your when nothing seems to go the right way. you often get used to the feeling of something missing or taken from you. i think the first line pretty much sums it up, and then you apply love to it.