This is currently my favorite song of the album, ‘Hope there’s someone’ got me caught up with this emotional masterpiece of Antony, but I turn to ‘Fistful of love’ in times when feeling down is all I need.. it makes me feel warm inside even though there are tears in my eyes.
My interpretation of the song:
The main person is lying restlessly in bed, thinking about his ex-lover. She realizes how much he meant for her. So she needs to express it (through means of song).
Watching at a photograph she recalls a memory of the relationship as a whole and starts to cry. In that relationship, especially at the nearing end, she expresses her love for him (much like this song is a reprise of that moment) but she knows his feelings for her are changing, becoming less and less, there are only small hints of his love for her.
He wants to tell her he loves her, but he knows he can’t otherwise it will just be meaningless words: you can’t expect to lie when her love is so sincere. His hands become fists and he starts to get angry and emotionally aggressive, starting fights over nothing and burning away her heart (her love) for him. She finally accepts this and remembers when his love for her was sincere.
This is currently my favorite song of the album, ‘Hope there’s someone’ got me caught up with this emotional masterpiece of Antony, but I turn to ‘Fistful of love’ in times when feeling down is all I need.. it makes me feel warm inside even though there are tears in my eyes.
My interpretation of the song: The main person is lying restlessly in bed, thinking about his ex-lover. She realizes how much he meant for her. So she needs to express it (through means of song). Watching at a photograph she recalls a memory of the relationship as a whole and starts to cry. In that relationship, especially at the nearing end, she expresses her love for him (much like this song is a reprise of that moment) but she knows his feelings for her are changing, becoming less and less, there are only small hints of his love for her. He wants to tell her he loves her, but he knows he can’t otherwise it will just be meaningless words: you can’t expect to lie when her love is so sincere. His hands become fists and he starts to get angry and emotionally aggressive, starting fights over nothing and burning away her heart (her love) for him. She finally accepts this and remembers when his love for her was sincere.