I agree that this song is about adultery as well mainly because of the "Cuckold eyes" verse.
Michael Stipe is stating that he wasn't faithful in the relationship. He broke a promise to remain faithful (whether it be marriage vows, etc) However, he feels that they will be able to over come his unfaithfulness, they can live with the reality of the curiosity to stray away from relationships and now they will know him cheating was a mistake, but it's in the past and just a lesson learned. He also says that he realizes that Molko is incredibly upset about the broken promise and he can't say or do much to convince him of anything else. He can now only experience the same thing happening to him.
Molko claims that he is hurt and upset about Michael Stipe's unfaithfulness. He feels that Stipe could possibly could have no idea what Molko is feeling, that his apologies are empty and they're offering him no peace to the fact that Stipe wandered. He doesn't believe that Stipe couldn't have enjoyed cheating in the relationship, sort of saying "If you knew it was wrong, why did you do it?"
Molko rests in the fact that he will get Stipe back. He will wait for his turn to wrong him in their own relationship. He will gain peace in watching Stipe suffer as same as Molko has. Their relationship was based on a bunch of "broken promises", but Molko's threat/idea to harm Stipe in the exact same way is a promise Molko will keep.
I agree that this song is about adultery as well mainly because of the "Cuckold eyes" verse.
Michael Stipe is stating that he wasn't faithful in the relationship. He broke a promise to remain faithful (whether it be marriage vows, etc) However, he feels that they will be able to over come his unfaithfulness, they can live with the reality of the curiosity to stray away from relationships and now they will know him cheating was a mistake, but it's in the past and just a lesson learned. He also says that he realizes that Molko is incredibly upset about the broken promise and he can't say or do much to convince him of anything else. He can now only experience the same thing happening to him.
Molko claims that he is hurt and upset about Michael Stipe's unfaithfulness. He feels that Stipe could possibly could have no idea what Molko is feeling, that his apologies are empty and they're offering him no peace to the fact that Stipe wandered. He doesn't believe that Stipe couldn't have enjoyed cheating in the relationship, sort of saying "If you knew it was wrong, why did you do it?"
Molko rests in the fact that he will get Stipe back. He will wait for his turn to wrong him in their own relationship. He will gain peace in watching Stipe suffer as same as Molko has. Their relationship was based on a bunch of "broken promises", but Molko's threat/idea to harm Stipe in the exact same way is a promise Molko will keep.
My thoughts.