Even If I Could

I really like this song, because it's the only one (I think) which focuses exclusively on the Hulk. Banner's character has a lot of emotion bottled up, enough to spawn hundreds of songs, but he keep most of it to himself. I loved how this song expresses exactly what I imagined he was feeling.

The first stanza pretty much speaks for itself: everybody's walking on eggshells around him, thinking him a monster, and he hates it. Mostly because he considers himself a monster too.

But he's also angry, because he was trying to be good, all this time. And they "dragged him back into the freak show." He's kind of indignant here. You really realize it's about the Hulk with the "even if I could" part, because he can't die.

Next stanza is even angrier. He's resentful at everything, and he feels like he's just trapped inside this little box all the time, and can't let himself out. He knows he's stuck in this forever. At least, that's how I interpreted it. This is the one part I didn't get entirely.

And the "you know I can never forgive you"? I suppose, in a way, he's talking to himself. Or to the Other Guy. The one person Bruce truly hates is himself. At least, this is the most logical answer to me.

But this is just my interpretation, of course. I love this song (one of the best in the soundtrack), and the Avengers is my favorite movie, ever.

to me, outside the relation of the movie it seems like someone who's controlled emotionally from someone else, and it's kinda making him sick cause he couldn't sleep at night with it and want to get out of this kinda feeling and be set free!

This strikes me as more of a Loki song...Just saying...Especially since he was more Frigga's favorite, kinda goes with the whole "Mommy's little monster..." thing...Especially since in Thor 2, she would go visit him in his cell, but wouldn't even entertain the thought of letting him out. Good song.