Set it right
Can't we talk
Anymore
Only you
Nothing more
All this time
You won't be staying round
Given the time
And your mood
You look a lot like her
And you look so like
You won't be staying around
Here in this half light
You look a lot like her
Lost and gone
Could you give
Me some room
Room to be
Room to heal
Worth as much
You will be
You won't be staying round
Given the time
And your mood
You look a lot like her
And you look so like
You won't be staying around
Here in this half light
You look a lot like her
What I meant
What is right
You decide
Please believe
I will be
Here for you
I will be
You won't be staying round
Given the time
And your mood
You look a lot like her
And you look so like
You won't be staying around
Here in this half light
You look a lot like her
(x3)
resuri- i was listening to this song again the other day (it's a good song), and trying to figure out what it meant, and that's exactly what i came up with. the only way it makes sense is if the narrator is facing the end of a lesbian relationship, just like you said.
um...i think it's easy to assume that the song was written for a guy because of the female narrator, but i think we need to consider the obvious possibility that the song was written for a girl, who is leaving the relationship and at that moment reminds the narrator of a past failed relationship. "it looks like you won't be staying 'round, given the time and the mood you look a lot like her..." referring of course to a past girlfriend who also left the narrator, possibly under similar circumstances. if this song were called "like him" instead of "like her," it would be easier to see. just gotta be a little bit more open-minded people!
This is an aching song about breaking up and the realizations that occur when we realize that the ones we love are no longer commited to the relationship and are just looking for a way out.
This song was on CSI the other night and it was so cool!! great episode too!
i also caught this song on CSI. but i don't completely get the meaning. "you look a lot like her." Who looks a lot like who? The guy she's breaking up with looks like some other girl?????
Numbnat1- That would be true if the singer was a male. Since the singer is female, we're all confused.
Now that you mentiion it, one possibility is that the song was originally written by a guy, from a guy's point of view, then mandalay got a hold of it and had the female singer sing it without changing the lyrics. just a thought. i have no idea.
I've always thought of the song as from the perspective of a guy. Mandalay had two members: a guy that did all the music and a girl that did the singing. It could be that the guy wrote the lyrics.
I think he's breaking up with a girl (or actually is being broken up with) and notices that this is just what happened in his last relationship. "Given the time \ And your mood \ You look a lot like her" The resemblance isn't so much physical as it is situational.
it's funny how experience helps give things context.
i think it's possible she wrote this to a guy, who himself was left by another girl, the same way he is leaving the narrator now.
just sayin.
I personally like to think it's about a lesbian relationship. Regardless, this song is amazing.
It's always struck me as being sung by a woman to a woman. Probably because that means I can better relate to it.