@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Come on skinny love, just last the year
Pour a little salt, we were never here
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer
Tell my love to wreck it all
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Right in the moment, this order's tall
And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind
And in the morning I'll be with you
But it will be a different kind
'Cause I'll be holding all the tickets
And you'll be owning all the fines
Come on, skinny love, what happened here?
Suckle on the hope in light brassieres
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Sullen load is full, so slow on the split
And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind
And now all your love is wasted
And who the hell was I?
'Cause now I'm breaking at the britches
And at the end of all your lines
Who will love you?
Who will fight?
And who will fall far behind?
Come on skinny love
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Pour a little salt, we were never here
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer
Tell my love to wreck it all
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Right in the moment, this order's tall
And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind
And in the morning I'll be with you
But it will be a different kind
'Cause I'll be holding all the tickets
And you'll be owning all the fines
Come on, skinny love, what happened here?
Suckle on the hope in light brassieres
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Sullen load is full, so slow on the split
And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind
And now all your love is wasted
And who the hell was I?
'Cause now I'm breaking at the britches
And at the end of all your lines
Who will love you?
Who will fight?
And who will fall far behind?
Come on skinny love
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Lyrics submitted by AnneTUDUDUDU, edited by madi101498, hannah101201
Skinny Love Lyrics as written by Justin Deyarmond Edison Vernon
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I have a really odd interpretation of this song, but here it goes...
Come on skinny love just last the year/
I think that she is literally speaking of a love that is "skinny," like a love that is fragile and lasts a short amount of time? I actually think this love is toward herself.
Pour a little salt we were never here/
In history, when a city was destroyed, they salted the earth to purify it. She believes she is destroyed, but that if she erases her presence that she can purify the people around her in some way.
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer/
Veneer is a type of wood, not very sturdy. It sounds like she wants to kill herself, but then again she doesn't, so she takes her frustrations out on the bathroom counter, the blood in the sink from the wound she acquires.
I tell my love to wreck it all Cut out all the ropes and let me fall/
She is telling her love to let her go, to cut all ties with her to spare him/her pain, but in the process, he would let her fall because he is the only thing tying her to this world.
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Right in the moment this order's tall/
He doesn't want to let her go. He loves her too much, and he will never let her go now that he has learned the extent of things, making the order too much.
I told you to be patient I told you to be fine I told you to be balanced I told you to be kind/
She is trying to feel better about herself, but it is a long process. She is asking him to be patient with her, but also to not worry and to live his life, making him "fine" and "balanced."
In the morning I'll be with you But it will be a different kind/
She is saying that she will still be with him tomorrow, but only in spirit.
I'll be holding all the tickets And you'll be owning all the fines/
She will be the one to commit the deed, but he will be the one who has to suffer the consequences.
Come on skinny love what happened here/
At this point, I believe that the girl is watching her love from another world. She wonders how the boy she loved could turn out the way he does.
Suckle on the hope in lite brassiere/
A brassiere is a place that sells alcohol, so I believe that he takes up drinking to cope with her suicide.
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Sullen load is full; so slow on the split/
His load is full because he believes he could have saved the girl. The guilt and grief is slowing breaking him.
I told you to be patient I told you to be fine/
She told him to be patient because he would find someone else to love. She told him to be fine after she was gone, but he is obviously not.
I told you to be balanced I told you to be kind/
She told him to remain the same as he was, but he has slowly turned bitter. He loves her, but he also feels betrayed. He cannot remained balanced, and the anger toward her makes him a different person.
Now all your love is wasted? Then who the hell was I?/
He has become so bitter toward the girl that he believes that he wasted his time with her, after all, he wouldn't feel this way if he had never loved her. However, she knows that their love was real, it just hurts him too much to admit it anymore.
Now I'm breaking at the britches And at the end of all your lines/
She regrets her decission now, because she knows that he will never quite get over her because of the unanswered questions she left behind her.
Who will love you? Who will fight? Who will fall far behind?/
She is asking him who will fight through the hard shell he has built for himself and still love him. She also knows that not many people will bother to try and love him.
Come on skinny love My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my/
He has little love for himself now, just as she did.
thats exactly what I thought! Except I also thought she might have a eating disorder because she sounds so fragile
Your comment about history and salt isn't accurate. They didn't salt the earth to purify it in any good sense of the word. They did it for one of two (theoretical) generally-accepted reasons: to keep anything from growing (salt inhibits plant growth, but it would have been difficult historically to get that much salt into a field) or to do the same thing on a symbolic level. It's mostly seen as a way of "cursing" anybody who dares to try to rebuild once a town has been razed - their fields are hexed from ever bearing fruit again.
You are brilliant! Your interpretation of this song is beyond beautiful and really gives it life. I am singing in a Talent Show on Thursday and I chose this song... now I have a bigger meaning than the one I had chosen. I can put passion behind the words, so thank you. Not everyone may agree, and some may only go through to criticize the little mistakes in other interpretations because they cannot thing of anything better, but I would take it as a compliment. You really interpreted this beautiful... I can't say it enough!
I really like your interpretation of this song. It fits. I'm not to jolly over the idea of her suicide, which now gives the song more depth, but also adds the gloom effect when I listen to it.
Oh. My. Gosh. You are brilliant, sir or madame. This is amazing. This song always made me sad, but I didn't know why. This is a haunting realization. I tried to read the other interpretations, but I just couldn't because I was biased by yours. ;-]
@indigojade this is seriously the most amazing thing i have ever read!
@indigojade i never understood this song until reading your image and assumption of what the song meant. wow thank you so much x
@indigojade I agree but I think also interpret that " pour a little salt we were never here" a little different although I agree in both ways, I think she is singing it as the saying " pour a little salt on the wound" like she is fighting so hard, and it's hurting her so deeply But there are still barely any results, so she is pouring salt on her wounds, hence " staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer" cause possibly mean self harm, but I think it means she wouldn't handle her own reflection and is implying she broke the mirror above the sink with her bare hands and now there are shards of glass, and the sink and the mirror laying there.
And also the " be with your but it will be a different kind" and from them on in the song, I think that it could also possibly mean that, she has left him, maybe it got too much for him to Handle and she could feel now more than ever that he wasn't feeling the same love for her and he could see how she loved him more than she loved herself and thst got to much. And she now like sees him from afar like in school or on the streets and he's let himself go or become a wreck, or he doesn't seem like himself anymore and that maybe he did get hurt by the ending of the relationship and he is bitter now.
And this whole ending implys she left abruptly and never answered to him why, so that leaves him confused and mad