Flutter Girl

I love and relate to this song so much. I think its about a young girl who completley falls in love with a guy that's way over her head and not good enough for her. He sees her as this butterfly that needs to fly from him. This song is like a warning to the girl to let him go and move on to bigger and better things. because he will always ruin her if she stays. Any girl thats dated a musician knows how true this song can ring!

I think this song is a deep depression song, which is a part of a sad and negative album. It sounds like chris cornell simulates himself as a drug dealer who accidantally ran into a beautiful shining and colorful girl, and though he wants her, he bumps into his low self-esteem barrier. He's also demonstrating what He feels that SHE IS for him : a high class girl who's so innocent and perfect from the inside and the outside as one. Any relationship with him could only scratch her pink bubble and turn her to someone like him, like he is contagous. He's living kind of a spartan life, and when someone so pure and clean as this flutter girl enters to his life, he's naturally pushes her away cause he doesn't believe that there's anything good witing for him in this world. When he says "You don't wanna take what I give, Cause I give nothing for free", I think he's acctualy trying to say that he has drugs but he won't let her use them, not for free, as the price she has to pay for the drugs is her pureness, and he won't let it happen because in gis eyes she is way more worthy living than him, she's a couple steps ahead of him in the ladder of life. Let him drown safely and continue your life, live and let die.

it would be so great if men could just be that honest!! when they are about to break ur heart!! ...i think..i mean..i honestly belive..that if ure not able to know urself..to believe in urself..to know what u need and what u dont, ure not able to be with someone else..cuz u havent deal with ur own unsatisfied-unkown self and needs.. u cant give to others..what u cant even give to ur own self..thats just a thought..not saying the song its saying that..what says..its clear and plain "im no good so leave before i break u for good"

peace

I don't take it as definately older man, younger woman situation. I see it more as a relationship where the man feels he is just trouble and can't see why the other person is so in love with him. They're better off without him. Naive in love, experience, not a cynic but possibly not age.

I wouldn't take "My hands are rough, My fingers cold" that litteral, Chris Cornell uses way to much metaphores for such a sentence to be litteral. (Well, at least I guess)

Based on my experience, this song is about a guy who views himself so lowly in comparison to the woman he loves that he believes she would have a better life if she did not love him anymore. So he pushes her away in order to save her from destruction. He hates himself and doesn't find himself worthy of her pure love. He's putting her on a pedestal and feels undeserving. He is depressed.

I agree with both of ya. But I also think it could be about young girls getting involved with older men. Just the part of them living/knowing certain things better, expecting more, and just the whole

My hands are rough My fingers cold and your heart so young and so naive to ever feel for a moment that I might let you believe

I don't know...when I heard that, the hands being rough and cold make it sound like him being older, and the "your heart so young and naive..." being that young girls have very tender hearts, they haven't been hurt so much or know what to expect. Then the "You'll become a fool for the words I speak" in the beginning being the fact older guys can talk a young girl who doesn't know into anything...idk, my interp.

I think the key to the song is "And your heart so young and so naive To ever feel for a moment that I might dare to believe". The naive heart of the girl can't understand the depth of belief he has. The relationship can only end in ruin because of this. Cornell knew himself. More men should understand this about themselves and about women. Beauty and naivety aren't charming in the long run, they are deadly to a deeper understanding, to a deeper relationship based on belief. When the charm fades and life makes itself into a struggle requiring cold hearted will to survive, the flutter girl is useless and broken.

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