A song about a post-breakup relationship. The question: "is all or nothing really the best we can do?" seems to sum up the song pretty well. Why does a relationship either have to work or not exist at all? Ani feels that love doesn't just go away, and she feels that 'there is more to life that they could have loved each other through' despite the fact that the 'ideal' kind of relationship didn't work out for them. It seems like it takes a lot of strength and understanding on both sides for a relationship to exist somewhere in between an ideal relationship and a non-existent one.
I really identify with this verse: "if there is one instinct, i just can't get with at all; it's the urge to kill something beautiful, just to hang it on your wall". It is sad when people deal with the hurt in a defensive way; by re-evaluating the relationship with a new found sense of negativity and blame towards the other person. By 'hanging it on the wall', the hurt person is presenting their new (negative) take on the relationship to the world. A relationship that a person considers wonderful at one time can be interpreted in a completely different way after the person has been hurt (even though the events that made up the relationship have not changed). This is the nature of memory really: every new experience influences how you re-construct the memories of your previous experiences.
A song about a post-breakup relationship. The question: "is all or nothing really the best we can do?" seems to sum up the song pretty well. Why does a relationship either have to work or not exist at all? Ani feels that love doesn't just go away, and she feels that 'there is more to life that they could have loved each other through' despite the fact that the 'ideal' kind of relationship didn't work out for them. It seems like it takes a lot of strength and understanding on both sides for a relationship to exist somewhere in between an ideal relationship and a non-existent one.
I really identify with this verse: "if there is one instinct, i just can't get with at all; it's the urge to kill something beautiful, just to hang it on your wall". It is sad when people deal with the hurt in a defensive way; by re-evaluating the relationship with a new found sense of negativity and blame towards the other person. By 'hanging it on the wall', the hurt person is presenting their new (negative) take on the relationship to the world. A relationship that a person considers wonderful at one time can be interpreted in a completely different way after the person has been hurt (even though the events that made up the relationship have not changed). This is the nature of memory really: every new experience influences how you re-construct the memories of your previous experiences.