well...this song is great, but you gotta really use u'r imagination to understand the double connotation of the words. He's actually talking about the drugs he used. To me, he writes this at a stand point where he no longer uses. It's abt the actual addiction he had and the affect the drugs had on him, as well as the reason for taking them, i.e. his strained relationship with his father and his low self esteem for mistakes and what not. It seems that he's admitting that he ran to drugs to feel better abt himself and what was going on with his father. So now he's having to deal sober and straight and realizes how "great" he felt when he was high. How it felt to be NUMB and forget, at least for a brief moment all the bull shit he was going through. He has full creative authority over his music videos so in this case the video and the connotation of a romance, is just him playing on the double connotation and making you have to look deeper. Which creates more of an interest in the public and completely shows how imiginative he is in his lyrics and in directing his music videos as a form of expression and art.
Thanks for your interpretation of a great song. Looks like he had a girlfriend as well as a dad. IMHO, the woman in the video is not [merely] a symbol, not [merely] a prompting for the viewer to look deeper, but also a person, making this song a very good one, with more than one or two interpretations. "As simple as a song, as complex as a human being."
Thanks for your interpretation of a great song. Looks like he had a girlfriend as well as a dad. IMHO, the woman in the video is not [merely] a symbol, not [merely] a prompting for the viewer to look deeper, but also a person, making this song a very good one, with more than one or two interpretations. "As simple as a song, as complex as a human being."
well...this song is great, but you gotta really use u'r imagination to understand the double connotation of the words. He's actually talking about the drugs he used. To me, he writes this at a stand point where he no longer uses. It's abt the actual addiction he had and the affect the drugs had on him, as well as the reason for taking them, i.e. his strained relationship with his father and his low self esteem for mistakes and what not. It seems that he's admitting that he ran to drugs to feel better abt himself and what was going on with his father. So now he's having to deal sober and straight and realizes how "great" he felt when he was high. How it felt to be NUMB and forget, at least for a brief moment all the bull shit he was going through. He has full creative authority over his music videos so in this case the video and the connotation of a romance, is just him playing on the double connotation and making you have to look deeper. Which creates more of an interest in the public and completely shows how imiginative he is in his lyrics and in directing his music videos as a form of expression and art.
Thanks for your interpretation of a great song. Looks like he had a girlfriend as well as a dad. IMHO, the woman in the video is not [merely] a symbol, not [merely] a prompting for the viewer to look deeper, but also a person, making this song a very good one, with more than one or two interpretations. "As simple as a song, as complex as a human being."
Thanks for your interpretation of a great song. Looks like he had a girlfriend as well as a dad. IMHO, the woman in the video is not [merely] a symbol, not [merely] a prompting for the viewer to look deeper, but also a person, making this song a very good one, with more than one or two interpretations. "As simple as a song, as complex as a human being."