Nylon Smile

I think the subject of the song is her depression, and she is talking to it, as she says "cause I don't know what I've done to deserve you and I don't know what I'll do without you" like she doesnt know what she did to deserve all of her sadness, but shes had it so long that she doesnt know if she can live without it, she "wants a reason to repair", or "a reason to be there", basically she wants to have a reason to be happy, because right now she is kind of ok with her sadness, as shown by this line "I can't see nothing good and nothing is so bad", but she also doesnt want to be ok with her sadness, she wishes she cared enough to change it, and she cant explain what she means because she feels all alone, and like no one would really care, good song i must say

A nylon smile is not an authentic smile; it is a pretense, slipped on like some piece of lingerie designed only to please one's partner.

Haunting as always from portishead

Uneasy feeling of looking at oneself and not liking what one sees.

Makes me wonder about the space between who I am and how I present myself.

The fake smile on the surface that you show to the world when you are depressed

The fake smile on the surface that you show to the world when you are depressed

The fake smile on the surface that you show to the world when you are depressed

That's the only song on Third I feel already able to understand a bit, because the lyrics can be taken rather literal: The situation is a relationship and the woman does realize, that nothing better can happen to her than her man. But still she isn't able to feel love for him nor change this fact.

How I feel every fucking day unfortunately, even when someone extremely lovely comes into my life out of the blue.

I just read a couple of comments above (from writing this since the box is below) and realized something. If this person has a husband who she feels cold about then maybe that is what he wants her to change so she can feel remorse for any further situations. It's quite possible that she will feel a sense of sanity after the guilt and therefore find herself outwardly manifested as true happiness instead of pretense that is a white line and blob of nylon-related despair upon her smiling lips--that only smile sarcastically. She may be singing from a past view in a way to make these ideas coexist, however, if she is speaking from the point of her life she sung this song, then it's quite possible that the character (who may be her) is feeling a sense of sadness and remorse for the inability to change her coldness to make her husband be more faithful as a human reaction similar to karma. (If she believes in that) 'I never had the chance to explain exactly what I meant' may be a feeling of guilt that she has today if this is a past, but regardless of it being past or present, she definitely is feeling a sense of coldness that she cannot explain and therefore cannot let go of the prime reason she still (from the past) feelings of guilt. She sings like that guilt is what is within her today--her smile coated in deep sarcastic whiteness (under symbolic interpretation and representation) She cares within a coldness.