what does this song mean to me? everything, haha. seriously, one of my fave songs ever, belonging to one of my favourite movies ever.
the interpretations of this song and the movie on here are excellent. i'm just gonna throw in my own two cents. anyway, i feel that the labyrinth is an allegory (a metaphor? allegory? don't know the word) for fantasy and the imagination. and jareth is the ultimate representation of that. sarah is so consumed in her fantasy life that she's beginning to miss out on her real life and that she's placing fantasy over real life (as represented when the baby gets taken away). thankfully, she realises that this is not okay, so she goes to confront her fantasy and to put it in its place, so to speak. the existence of imagination and fantasy tries to tempt her with this song. jareth sings that the real world has disillusioned her ("sad love," "fooled heart") but he can literally give her the moon and sky and paint her mornings of gold and so forth, because he is her imagination and her fantasy so he can make anything happen. even when the real world "falls down" around her, her fantasy world will always "be there" for her.
but finally, sarah realises she can't be ruled by her fantasy life, so she goes to confront it. jareth (fantasy) tells her that she can have anything she wants... as long as she neglects her real world and gets consumed into her imagination so fully that she can imagine anything, and it will be hers (in her mind, of course). and jareth will be the slave to her desires. but then sarah realises that fantasies will not actually make anything real happen, and cannot dictate her life, so she says that he has no power over her. then the fantasy bubble bursts. but at the end she says she needs some aspect of her fantasy and imagination now and again to pull her through... but just the happy helpful aspects like hoggle. so they partay.
if i were her, i'd still have chosen jareth, haha.
what does this song mean to me? everything, haha. seriously, one of my fave songs ever, belonging to one of my favourite movies ever.
the interpretations of this song and the movie on here are excellent. i'm just gonna throw in my own two cents. anyway, i feel that the labyrinth is an allegory (a metaphor? allegory? don't know the word) for fantasy and the imagination. and jareth is the ultimate representation of that. sarah is so consumed in her fantasy life that she's beginning to miss out on her real life and that she's placing fantasy over real life (as represented when the baby gets taken away). thankfully, she realises that this is not okay, so she goes to confront her fantasy and to put it in its place, so to speak. the existence of imagination and fantasy tries to tempt her with this song. jareth sings that the real world has disillusioned her ("sad love," "fooled heart") but he can literally give her the moon and sky and paint her mornings of gold and so forth, because he is her imagination and her fantasy so he can make anything happen. even when the real world "falls down" around her, her fantasy world will always "be there" for her.
but finally, sarah realises she can't be ruled by her fantasy life, so she goes to confront it. jareth (fantasy) tells her that she can have anything she wants... as long as she neglects her real world and gets consumed into her imagination so fully that she can imagine anything, and it will be hers (in her mind, of course). and jareth will be the slave to her desires. but then sarah realises that fantasies will not actually make anything real happen, and cannot dictate her life, so she says that he has no power over her. then the fantasy bubble bursts. but at the end she says she needs some aspect of her fantasy and imagination now and again to pull her through... but just the happy helpful aspects like hoggle. so they partay.
if i were her, i'd still have chosen jareth, haha.