I sort of agree with you, yoshitex, but there's something that you're missing. This song isn't as happy and wistful as all that, I think. You missed the part where she doesn't love him back.
The verse that demonstrates this best is "When I ask you to kiss my pulse
you offer to start the shower.
I want a verb and you give me a noun.
What do you dream up while I tongue you down?"
He's asked her to kiss him an affectionate, loving way, and she flat-out rejects him. He wants love from her, but she won't give it to him. And in the last line, he comments on the fact that she imagines somewhere and someone else while they're intimate.
It's sad. She'll have sex with him, but she won't care for him the way he cares for her.
The last few lines are depressing, to me, just like the rest of the song. She knows everything about him (or perhaps only trivial details?) and yet she doesn't love him. It's the ultimate rejection.
Anyway, I just saw Why? live and it was amazing beyond amazing.
I sort of agree with you, yoshitex, but there's something that you're missing. This song isn't as happy and wistful as all that, I think. You missed the part where she doesn't love him back.
The verse that demonstrates this best is "When I ask you to kiss my pulse you offer to start the shower. I want a verb and you give me a noun. What do you dream up while I tongue you down?"
He's asked her to kiss him an affectionate, loving way, and she flat-out rejects him. He wants love from her, but she won't give it to him. And in the last line, he comments on the fact that she imagines somewhere and someone else while they're intimate.
It's sad. She'll have sex with him, but she won't care for him the way he cares for her.
The last few lines are depressing, to me, just like the rest of the song. She knows everything about him (or perhaps only trivial details?) and yet she doesn't love him. It's the ultimate rejection.
Anyway, I just saw Why? live and it was amazing beyond amazing.