I love this song of Bright Eyes. Though its not their best, it sure is one of their best. Go Conor Oberst!
It seems a lot of people want to connect it to drug use and cocaine. But everyone always thinks songs are about that. I really think this one is about love. I think its sorta like his other song, "Take it Easy (Love Nothing)"
I think its about him wanting to have a superficial lover. You know, love without the strings attached. He sees real love as just pain, so he wants fake love, because its funner, I guess. Or maybe its about prostitution, but the ideas are similar.
"Your tongue in my mouth, trying to keep the words from coming out"
"I asked your name, you asked the time"
"You didn't care to know who else may have been you before"
"I want a lover I don't have to love"
"I want a girl too sad to give a F*ck"
"I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk"
He wants... maybe... sex? But not actually have strings attached to an actual relationship, because a relationship will end in hurt. But just sex wont ever end in pain for him. Its about superficial love.
I love the ending so much. Its contradicts the whole song, as if a confession. Through the whole song hes saying he doesn't want to get hurt and how he doesn't want to care about his lover (Since it ends in pain...), but then in the end he's admitting he DOES want to care deeply about someone, but he's just scared to get hurt. When he's saying, "Then hurt me" he's really saying, "Then love me" since he said earlier that Love WAS hurt.
Love it to DEATH. The lryics speak to me like no other lryics. Conor Oberst is absolute genius. And I don't consider this emo, I consider is GENIUS!
I love this song of Bright Eyes. Though its not their best, it sure is one of their best. Go Conor Oberst!
It seems a lot of people want to connect it to drug use and cocaine. But everyone always thinks songs are about that. I really think this one is about love. I think its sorta like his other song, "Take it Easy (Love Nothing)"
I think its about him wanting to have a superficial lover. You know, love without the strings attached. He sees real love as just pain, so he wants fake love, because its funner, I guess. Or maybe its about prostitution, but the ideas are similar.
"Your tongue in my mouth, trying to keep the words from coming out" "I asked your name, you asked the time" "You didn't care to know who else may have been you before" "I want a lover I don't have to love" "I want a girl too sad to give a F*ck" "I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk"
He wants... maybe... sex? But not actually have strings attached to an actual relationship, because a relationship will end in hurt. But just sex wont ever end in pain for him. Its about superficial love.
I love the ending so much. Its contradicts the whole song, as if a confession. Through the whole song hes saying he doesn't want to get hurt and how he doesn't want to care about his lover (Since it ends in pain...), but then in the end he's admitting he DOES want to care deeply about someone, but he's just scared to get hurt. When he's saying, "Then hurt me" he's really saying, "Then love me" since he said earlier that Love WAS hurt.
Love it to DEATH. The lryics speak to me like no other lryics. Conor Oberst is absolute genius. And I don't consider this emo, I consider is GENIUS!