Again with the lust! I love this theme in The The's music. To me this is about someone who has gotten so accustomed to a particular sin that it almost doesn't seem like a choice anymore ("one sin leads to another one"). My first impression was one of adultery, with the narrator conflicted between feelings of lust for his partner, the awareness that it is wrong ("the ghosts that haunt me"), and the guilt that it's not his first sin. I like the question about lust being something to yield to or overcome...is there really an answer?
The last verse suggests he not only feels guilty for his transgressions, but that he also worries about his own emotional state...he's gotten so accustomed to being fearful in these situations that he feels he is unable to feel love as strongly, maybe because his conscience eats away at him. He doesn't feel that he can save himself from his own moral lapses, and fears he is doomed to a life of lustful sin rather than love.
I couldn't agree more with Pipistrelle's take on it - though instead of adultery, its quite possible it is speaking of Sexaholism. The addiction to sex, to fill that which is missing from one's life. Each sin most definitely leads to the next, in as destructive a manner as any addiction.
I couldn't agree more with Pipistrelle's take on it - though instead of adultery, its quite possible it is speaking of Sexaholism. The addiction to sex, to fill that which is missing from one's life. Each sin most definitely leads to the next, in as destructive a manner as any addiction.
It's funny how you can hear a song a thousand times and still find a new meaning in it later in life when you've experienced more, and have more thoughts and memories to reference.
It's funny how you can hear a song a thousand times and still find a new meaning in it later in life when you've experienced more, and have more thoughts and memories to reference.
Again with the lust! I love this theme in The The's music. To me this is about someone who has gotten so accustomed to a particular sin that it almost doesn't seem like a choice anymore ("one sin leads to another one"). My first impression was one of adultery, with the narrator conflicted between feelings of lust for his partner, the awareness that it is wrong ("the ghosts that haunt me"), and the guilt that it's not his first sin. I like the question about lust being something to yield to or overcome...is there really an answer?
The last verse suggests he not only feels guilty for his transgressions, but that he also worries about his own emotional state...he's gotten so accustomed to being fearful in these situations that he feels he is unable to feel love as strongly, maybe because his conscience eats away at him. He doesn't feel that he can save himself from his own moral lapses, and fears he is doomed to a life of lustful sin rather than love.
I couldn't agree more with Pipistrelle's take on it - though instead of adultery, its quite possible it is speaking of Sexaholism. The addiction to sex, to fill that which is missing from one's life. Each sin most definitely leads to the next, in as destructive a manner as any addiction.
I couldn't agree more with Pipistrelle's take on it - though instead of adultery, its quite possible it is speaking of Sexaholism. The addiction to sex, to fill that which is missing from one's life. Each sin most definitely leads to the next, in as destructive a manner as any addiction.
It's funny how you can hear a song a thousand times and still find a new meaning in it later in life when you've experienced more, and have more thoughts and memories to reference.
It's funny how you can hear a song a thousand times and still find a new meaning in it later in life when you've experienced more, and have more thoughts and memories to reference.