Hold me close
I hate you the most
When you are the only one
(Never could) forgotten one
I can hear you dear
I wish that I was never born
When you are the only one
You come to me
(Thoughts that) I can't see
You're never real
You're pretend to me
When I'm with you
I don't know what to do
Don't come back soon
I don't want you to
When you are the only one
Hold my hand
But understand
You are the hated one
And you are the only one
You can look
And you can touch
That's why it's never fun
When you are the only one
If they could see
What you have done to me
You will not be the only one
You come back soon
Breaking up the room
And soon you'll be the forgotten one
And (to her) the only one
Only one
(Now you'll be) forgotten one
I hate you the most
When you are the only one
(Never could) forgotten one
I can hear you dear
I wish that I was never born
When you are the only one
You come to me
(Thoughts that) I can't see
You're never real
You're pretend to me
When I'm with you
I don't know what to do
Don't come back soon
I don't want you to
When you are the only one
Hold my hand
But understand
You are the hated one
And you are the only one
You can look
And you can touch
That's why it's never fun
When you are the only one
If they could see
What you have done to me
You will not be the only one
You come back soon
Breaking up the room
And soon you'll be the forgotten one
And (to her) the only one
Only one
(Now you'll be) forgotten one
Lyrics submitted by BrownBabu84
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Yeah, it's just all about being in love and obsessed with someone who is completely destructive to your well-being.
You can love this person so much, yet hate them with almost the same entirety. You say you'll leave it all behind, since you know it's so bad and that you deserve better, but the obsession for this person who you think is "the only one" makes it nearly impossible.
I can sense all the hatred he feels in this song towards the one he loves and possibly towards himself for having these feelings and conflicts. Sometimes, love stinks.
vlaric, nice two cents on the song. I'll say it counts for a little more than two cents, though. ;D
hell, last night I thought it might be about a dead girl.
I don't really think so now though
I think the part about "the only one" means that this person is the only one the speaker can love.
Hold me close
-I need you, I love you, let's be together
I can hear you dear
-Kind of confusing line to me; he calls her 'dear' in this, so there may be some sort of feeling of affection in this line towards her. Maybe he hears her calling for him?
I hate you the most
When you are the only one
-She treats him badly, he hates it. He hates it the most, knowing that shes the only one.
(Never could) forgotten one
-He wishes he could forget her. But in reality, he's still in the same horrible situation. He could never bring himself to leave and forget about her.
I wish that I was never born
When you are the only one
-He wishes that he wasn't born so he wouldn't have to experience this feeling of dependency and affection towards the 'only one' for him.
You come to me
(Thoughts that) I can't see
-She comes to him with thoughts that he doesn't know about, or he doesn't know what she's been lying about/ telling the truth about. This could also mean she may be hiding something, cheating on him, using him as a toy/ playing games with him, etc. Whatever you interpret it as.
You're never real
You're pretend to me
-She's never truthful about her affection or anything she says. She's practically pretend(false) to him because he knows that she never says anything truthful/that she means. In other words, he knows she isn't real, and she might as well be called 'imaginary', because shes never true to him.
When I'm with you
I don't know what to do
-He doesn't know whether he should get angry at her for all of the things she does or could be too afraid of that. He's unsure whether he should love her or hate her, but it's obvious that he clings to her anyway.
Don't come back soon
I don't want you to
When you are the only one
-Pretty self explanatory. He doesn't want to see her anytime soon because she still is the only one. Then again, she is the only one. So he does feel affection towards her but knows that if she comes she'll do the same thing all over again.
Hold my hand
But understand
You are the hated one
And you are the only one
-He loves her, he wants her to hold his hand. He has a lot of affection towards her. But he doesn't like what she does, what she acts like, or something along those lines. So he's trying to make her understand that she is the hated one, but the only one that he could ever have/ the only one that he wants to be with.
You can look
And you can touch
That's why it's never fun
When you are the only one
-She can do everything. She can look/touch other guys, she can cheat on him or flirt with other people with no consequence because he needs her, and she knows that he won't leave. It's never fun doing anything intimate with her perhaps, or never fun in the relationship. Because she's still the only one; his only love, his only partner.
If they could see
What you have done to me
You will not be the only one
-If everyone else in the world knew what he was going through, he'd have someone else better for him. She wouldn't be his only friend/companion because others would come to him for support.
You come back soon
Breaking up the room
And soon you'll be the forgotten one
-She came back soon and destroyed what he had. Maybe this is one of the points where he's realized that he has to go, soon she'll be the forgotten one and he'll leave her.
And (to her) the only one
Only one
(Now you'll be) forgotten one
-This line makes me think that the song is written from the girl speaking about the guy, which may be completely possible, depending on how you interpret it. Anyway, and (to her/him) the only one means that soon she/he will be gone and will be someone elses only one. This is the point where the person of the story finally says now you'll be the forgotten one, I'm leaving. Goodbye.
That's just my 2 cents on the song.
this subversion of pop-song convention often seems to be what MBV's songwriting is all about. here, they took it to its extreme.