Moon Song

It's about hating the one you love, the bad things this love bring are horrible yet, it's the "only one" real love you have or see.

these desperate lyrics seem to revolve around the lyricist’s love for someone that leads to hatred toward themselves. This hatred is then directed at the their romantic interest for not requiting their love. I find it very beautiful how the writer of this song seems to struggle to hold back suggestions of praise and desire, channeling forged hatred in their place.

I'm coming back to the song because it has even more personal meaning now.

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

bloody valentine now thats some good gothic music, i dont know about everyone else but that shit puts me to sleep. his voice gives me chills and the lyrics brings the sensation through the body!

I've had so many guesses as to what this song is about, that it'd take me far too long to type them out

hell, last night I thought it might be about a dead girl.

I don't really think so now though

I think this song is about being obsessed with someone you don't really know well, who comes around sporadically, so you can't see everything about them, just the image of them you've made in your mind.

I think the part about "the only one" means that this person is the only one the speaker can love.

Seems to me that he's both obsessed yet loathes the idea of loving this girl. She's like a bad drug. Makes him feel good at times, yet so terrible at others that he hates himself. And he knows she'll be "the only one" because he can't seem to give her up. She's just an obsession he wants to get over already.

Psychadelia pretty much got it. She makes him feel horrible but he needs her; she's the 'only one' for him, or possibly the only one he thinks he can have.

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.

XCATS pretty much nailed it...Psychadelia wasn't too far off the mark either. Obviously, Psych thought about this song quite a bit. Good stuff.

it's like a deconstruction/parody of the archetypal pop song with lyrics about love. as if Kevin said, Hey I think I'll write a "hate song" instead of a "love song," that might be interesting

this subversion of pop-song convention often seems to be what MBV's songwriting is all about. here, they took it to its extreme.