Love Is Dangerous

Hands swollen? double vision? this song is definitely about masturbation. Mark even says "we all pretend to fuck" so it's settled.

I think it's "and stuck in deadly rhythm"

I love this song, the double vocals sound so sweet. Mark and Tom's counter voices harmonize interestingly. It's chilling. very cool :]

This song is about falling in love and having to deal with the consequences when it fails.

I've had it with this damn double vision My hands swollen, I can't keep holding on My heart's sinking and stuck in deadly rhythm I can't fake it, I can't brush it off

This verse is saying that he is tired from holding on to love and he cant fake his pain.

I’m back at it, I just don't seem to listen I see your lips, I just can't hear the sound It's all static, just like my television Her skills sharpen, her eyes cut through the clouds

This verse is saying he tries to go back to her but he knows he will end up getting hurt again because he says she is stronger.

This is about Tom with AVA. Love is dangerous isn't talking about the emotion of love, but AVA's "album". Everyone is criticizing blink for sounding like AVA now and this is Tom saying that "Love" is compromising his abilities to write Blink's original style/sound. He gives it away right off the bat with "I've had it with this damn double vision". And his heart being "stuck in deadly RHYTHM" it's hinting that it's about music, not love.

I think it's supposed to be grouped like

(I need) Love, love is dangerous (Just don't be fooled when she says it's) Love, love is so dangerous (We'll betray the ones we care about) Love (What's left to care about?) Love is so dangerous (Love's cruel so we all pretend to) (Fuck)Love, love is dangerous

or it may be

Love is so dangerous (Love's cruel so we all pretend to find) Love, love is dangerous

but I definitely hear fuck so I don't think it's the second one.

He says: my hands swollen, i cant keep holding on. he could just mean that he cant continue doing the stuff he did before. he is exhausted because he fights for a kind of aim, probably a woman. love is so dangerous because it can change a lot. it can make you do things you usually wouldnt do. he isnt himself anymore: he sees the lips moving but doesnt hear anything, he doesnt listen to anything. he slowly realizes that all of his struggle isnt worth anything because she doesnt seem to care about him. this could mean the stuff marks sings in the second refrain.

Real lyrics from the CD booklet:

I've had it with this damn double vision My hands swollen, I can't keep holding on My heart's sinking and stuck in deadly rhythm I can't fake it, I can't brush it off Love is dangerous Love is so dangerous

I’m back at it, I just don't seem to listen I see your lips, I just can't hear the sound It's all static, just like my television Her skills sharpen, her eyes cut through the clouds (I need love) Love is dangerous (Hard times, don't be fooled when she says it's love) Love is so dangerous (We'll betray the ones we care about) Love is so dangerous (Life's cruel so we all pretend to fuck love) Love is dangerous

I think it's about a typical relationship, give and take, but they are both so stuck in their ways and their pride is pushing them apart. The love he feels for her keeps him fighting for it relentlessly, but he is wearing from it. She can't accept the way he is, and he wont change. But the love he feels for her is something he needs more than his own life, to the point where it becomes dangerous. First verse is like about the fights they always have

I've had it with this damn double vision (the double meanings, she says one thing but it's never clear whether it's one or the other) My hands swollen, I can't keep holding on (he keeps fighting to hold on so much so that he's too hurt to continue, it's a constant struggle that he can't keep going on with. He's sick of giving in to her unclear ways and constantly misunderstanding) My heart's sinking, and stuck in deadly rhythm (He's inlove, he can't stop loving her, but he almost resents the fact that he loves her because of how it's making him feel) I can't fake it I can't, can't brush it off (He's had enough of trying to keep up a false facade and just going along with what she wants instead of his own needs, and he can't do it anymore) Love, love is dangerous Love, love is so dangerous (He needs the love he feels for her, but hates what he has to constantly sacrifice to keep it)

I'm back at it, I just don't seem to listen I see your lips, I just can't hear the sound It's all static, just like my television (This is all like a typical fight where his pride gets in the way and she keeps demanding or yelling and it's just become monotonous, background noise, OR he's so angry at her that everything she's trying to tell him means nothing because he feels that he's right and she just won't listen) Her skills sharpen, her eyes cut through the clouds (This is where, no matter how strong his fight is, she manages to break him, he can bring tears in to the fight but she some how always manages to see beyond his tears and defeats him even more)

(I need) Love, love is dangerous ..(he needs this love that he despises so much)

(and Marks parts) Hard times, don't be fooled when she says it's love (Mark's trying to warn him that all the things she says to keep him holding on aren't anything more than lies to keep him needing this so called love) We'll betray the ones we care about (What happens when you become so intoxicated in this 'love' you feel for her that you push everyone else you've ever cared about out of the picture) Life's cruel so we all pretend to fuck love (Trying to reason with why he'll put up with the pain?)

I dunno, this is just my interpretation, but i'm drunk so i probably wont remember trying to understand this song in the morning

I don't think its talking about "love love." I think Tom is talking about Angels & Airwaves L ) V E. "I've had it with this damn double vision." The double vision being Blink 182 and Angels & Airwaves. "My heart's sinking and stuck in deadly rhythm." Both bands are very successful in their music and "rhythm." Well that's my thought but overall this is one my favorite songs from Neighborhoods.

I think it is about a girlfriend and a boyfriend split up by the boyfriend going to war. "Wake Up With Double Vision" maybe he was knocked out while fighting, and just getting up.