Pretend That You're Alone

I have a hard time disliking anything Keane comes out with, because they're brilliant, but "And love is just our way Of looking out for ourselves When we don't want to live alone" kind of turned me off this song because of how absolutely cynical and jaded it sounds.

I know it may just be me, or it may be that i'm not cynical enough, or simply that i'm interpreting this wrong, like this was written because he felt cynical after having his heart broken, but something about him saying "Basically, there is no such thing as true love, it's something we as humans have made up from selfish instinct." made me completely unable to connect with this, because I think of love as the most unselfish thing out there.

Still an absolutely great band, though. Just not a fan of this song.

My opinion: 1) We're just animals, an upgrade of monkeys. But we're not fully developped yet. 2) Love is not a big deal, we just use it not to be alone. So whatever, love is not important, fuck it. 3) Now pretend that everything we've built, everything that opresses us, all those rules are gone. You're free. 4) If nothing was important, i would destroy all those rules to reach freedom, it wouldnt be a big deal. 5) So why wouldnt we do that? Just get rid of everything and live free without anything/anyone to care about. 6) tricky part, but heres my guess The fact that it's a "she" would mean there's a relationship with the one who talks. If the one who talks has expressed its feelings about being free and all that, she may be desperate because she thinks he doesnt care about her (?). 7) He realises that living the dream of being free would mean living without her. He doesnt want that so he wants to get out of his dream.

this song is about existence.

So break out of the cages, The delicate structures we cling to all our lives 'Cause we are just the monkeys Who fell out of the trees when we were trying to fly -----> break all the law and theory that exist, that's all nonsense, we're just animal, evolution of monkeys, we're just animal, we're alone.

the right song in the right album, Perfect Symmetry; the album about dehumanization,. yeah we're spiraling.

I believe this song is about a guy who want to get a relationship with an evasive woman and he's trying to make the concept of love like is not big deal so they can be a couple, he seem to succeed but while in the relationship he discovers that he made a mistake minimizing the love for her and now she's too loveless, and is just some kind of 'free' which isn't what he wanted

this song is about TOUCHING YOURSELF...

or maybe just kinky sex.