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Off Your Face Lyrics

Hate
Pretend that I
Adore you

Hate
What do you take me
For you

Cry-baby
Shame
You're in love
With the game
Swallow the pain
Nothing else will remain
Hate
What I will do is
Scar you

Hate
Don't say I didn't
Warn you

Cry-baby
Shame
You're in love
With the game
Riding away
And then
Care-free again
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brownbabu84 On Jan 18, 2002
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Cover art for Off Your Face lyrics by My Bloody Valentine

This song has a drama spirit that I have never found on any other work of art. It's just painfully beautiful the way the speaker confesses the emptiness of his/her love. The dark side of this song (which is even in its sound) is that I don't think this monologue is conscious nor explicit. More than something the speaker is saying, it seems like something the speaker knows, but is not willing to accept. In fact, it's an attitude very few people are willing to recognize (but which, sadly, exists in a lot of persons). The falsehood and deceit which are hidden in the supossed love of this character are beyond humanity, close to psychopathy, because he/she actually enjoys the charade.

When I think I could encounter someone who sings this song, I get shivers down my spine.

Cover art for Off Your Face lyrics by My Bloody Valentine

i think it is about someone telling another (like a girl or boyfriend) that they no longer care for them the way they used to. the other person can not accept that. they've gotten used to being babied. so the speaker calls them a crybaby and tells them that they will only get hurt and eventually scarred. kind of like...there's other fish in the sea..there's no need to stick around. i know i'm probably way off...but it makes sense to me.

Cover art for Off Your Face lyrics by My Bloody Valentine

I just see this as a break-up song. The singer addresses the fact the she "hates" hating people. She is talking to Hate like a person.

the part:

"Cry-baby Shame You're in love With the game"

I believe references the fact that the game is love. Some relationships work, some dont. But either way there is someone to love.

"Swallow the pain Nothing else will remain"

Deal with the beakup without so much pain, someone else will come up soon enough

"Hate What I will do is Scar you"

Once again telling "Hate" that she will not hate anyone and will just move on to someone else. No need to be in pain about the breakup. IMO

 
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