This song is just now beginning to grow on me, it's very sweeping, very...heart-heavy.
At first every time I heard this, it reminded me of obsession, even the whole groupie thing...people (women) following the narrator wherever he goes, with "no self-control", as he and those he knows--"the angels", as these obsessive characters would think of them--know about them and are conscious of the high pedestals that they place on them (the "insatiable needs")....this and another song on OLTA, can't remember which one, had me thinking similar things. Kindof like crazed fans following people that they know from bands and such, invading their everyday lives.
On the other hand, another interpretation is that it could be about a man who has been in love, couldn't handle the relationship, and somehow ruined it, and now he feels hurt yet sick of being just some woman's toy, to the point of resenting women and not wanting to have to go back to that point of always being used or so concerned about another person...i.e. being "wound so tight smoking on the balcony", worrying about her and their relationship even during mundane moments. Basically, he's just left a bad relationship where he felt suffocated and now he's letting go off all of that.
This song could be taken so many ways...it's very bitter to me, though. Beautiful, anyway.
i think you're the closest in interpreting the song correctly. everyone else is clueless, and i've read enough to know that their enjoyment of the song is of shallow idiocy.
i think you're the closest in interpreting the song correctly. everyone else is clueless, and i've read enough to know that their enjoyment of the song is of shallow idiocy.
don't make the song your own. leave it, and see it for what it is.
don't make the song your own. leave it, and see it for what it is.
This song is just now beginning to grow on me, it's very sweeping, very...heart-heavy.
At first every time I heard this, it reminded me of obsession, even the whole groupie thing...people (women) following the narrator wherever he goes, with "no self-control", as he and those he knows--"the angels", as these obsessive characters would think of them--know about them and are conscious of the high pedestals that they place on them (the "insatiable needs")....this and another song on OLTA, can't remember which one, had me thinking similar things. Kindof like crazed fans following people that they know from bands and such, invading their everyday lives.
On the other hand, another interpretation is that it could be about a man who has been in love, couldn't handle the relationship, and somehow ruined it, and now he feels hurt yet sick of being just some woman's toy, to the point of resenting women and not wanting to have to go back to that point of always being used or so concerned about another person...i.e. being "wound so tight smoking on the balcony", worrying about her and their relationship even during mundane moments. Basically, he's just left a bad relationship where he felt suffocated and now he's letting go off all of that.
This song could be taken so many ways...it's very bitter to me, though. Beautiful, anyway.
i think you're the closest in interpreting the song correctly. everyone else is clueless, and i've read enough to know that their enjoyment of the song is of shallow idiocy.
i think you're the closest in interpreting the song correctly. everyone else is clueless, and i've read enough to know that their enjoyment of the song is of shallow idiocy.
don't make the song your own. leave it, and see it for what it is.
don't make the song your own. leave it, and see it for what it is.