Danse Russe

great song one of the best on the album

in my opinion, hurt is one of the greatest and most unappreciated harder rock bands at this point in time. the lyrical content is just incredible. (This is rockerxchick by the way) This song gives me chills and it's ambiguity makes my head spin but it seems so carefully constructed. I just see this man expecting so much from a "doll," a woman who occupies his bed not because she loves him but because he needs her. Why is she called a "tiny dancer" and what is the "danse russe"? "I just need to feel you breathe" demonstrates the mans admiration and the fact that nothing is said about what she says or what she does shows you how she chooses to be uninvolved in the relationship. Very sad song.

"Into my head is out of my mind Then I become a day behind And I can't help but wonder why that some days are the very worst case" -Talking about how his life and problems weigh him down and make him pessimistic and depressed.

"When I cannot believe that I'm living this way Kiss me tell me its okay and I'll guess it's just a twist of the fate" -The girl is his relief from the pressures of life, with her help he brushes everything off as bad luck.

"She reminds me of the Danse Russe" When my emotions are wounded Her motions and movements chase the ghosts from me" -In the POEM, Williams talks about how his family is asleep and he is all alone, so he spends his time reflecting upon himself chanting about his loneliness. As for the SONG, the man feels apart from the girl because she's asleep, and all his problems start to hit him again, so he's left to remember the way she makes him feel.

Basically, its about his ups and downs when he's with and not with the girl. When she is with him his problems are a world away from him, and when he's gone, he remembers the way she makes him feel as to give himself something to look forward to rather then let depression take him.

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Danse Russe appears to fall into two categories:

1) A poem by William Carlos Williams talking about his family sleeping and the narrator pondering himself dancing naked. Like most Williams poems, there's lots of different interpretations of the poem, most of which don't have much in common with this song. But it does talk about a man awake and seeing his love quietly asleep in a bed.

2) It's one of the movements in Tchaikosky's Swan Lake (or maybe the Nutcracker). The lead singer of Hurt is a fan of classical music, but I'm not real certain how this would relate to the song.

Danse Russe is literally French for Russian Dance.

I just read on the Hurt website that this song was inspired by the Williams poem and “a two-day experience with a lovely person.”

where can I download this song, please!!!

myspace

here is the link http://www.myspace.com/hurt

but i think they re good i like there sound and how they sing there songs makes them one of the best bands besides avenged sevenfold

these guys kick ass in concert...this is possibly the best song on the album.

I read somewhere that Russe actually means "red" and the poem that the song is referring to (this obviously is only one interpretation) the person in the poem (not the song) is dancing in front of a mirror covered in blood after killing his family. This is not my interpretation, it is one I read somewhere else about the poem itself. Somewhat gruesome.

Not sure why the other interpretation said russe meant red, maybe it is referring to the fact that that's what Russians were once referred to as.