its amazing how far music can come.. 24 years after it released and its one of the most heartfelt songs ive heard
To my mistakes to my mistakes of cowardice
She shimmy shakes the Jimmy Jakes of consequence
Born of the airs and dues my airs of madness do declare
That it's o.k. it's love
It's what you wanted to see it's who you wanted to be
For what you needed to need she'll make it up
Love it's who you know
Machine gun blues her vacant rush is so steel
I'm unaware lost inside your visions
I got mine too over, I got mine and I got you
'Cause I know you, you're love
It's what you wanted to see, it's who you wanted to be
For what you needed to need, she'll make it up
Love, it's who you know
When I lost my mind, I knew I was in for a long time
Can I look up to you as you look down on me
Can I feel in to you as you felt in to me
I can't help what you see, I can't help but to be
For what I needed to need, she'll make it
Love, it's who you know
She shimmy shakes the Jimmy Jakes of consequence
Born of the airs and dues my airs of madness do declare
That it's o.k. it's love
It's what you wanted to see it's who you wanted to be
For what you needed to need she'll make it up
Love it's who you know
Machine gun blues her vacant rush is so steel
I'm unaware lost inside your visions
I got mine too over, I got mine and I got you
'Cause I know you, you're love
It's what you wanted to see, it's who you wanted to be
For what you needed to need, she'll make it up
Love, it's who you know
When I lost my mind, I knew I was in for a long time
Can I look up to you as you look down on me
Can I feel in to you as you felt in to me
I can't help what you see, I can't help but to be
For what I needed to need, she'll make it
Love, it's who you know
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I was thinking that it might have something to do with loving someone, but not for the right reasons. Possibly he has a crush on someone who doesn't know it? Because he says "it's what you wanted to see, it's who you wanted to be for what you needed to need, she'll make it up love, it's who you know" I was thinking he might mean that love gives you the illusions that someone else has everything you need or want, that she'll make up that idea in your head even if it's not reality. They become what you want to see, who you want to be, and what you need to need. Love just makes it up. "It's who you know" could mean that love just finds somebody you know in your life to manifest itself into, making them seem like the perfect person that fills your void.