I don't think it's general like that. I think it's about the speaker's own specific view on love; while love is presented everywhere and people assume that love is something that everyone needs, without anyone questioning it - when he asks his friends, they think he's lost his mind. The speaker can't understand why anyone would want to love, or to be in love - what's "the meaning of love", what makes it so big and wonderful and essential when he is happy without ("I've never been in love before").
The lyrics sound sort of naive, I can't help imagining young Martin L Gore writing it - whether it's personal or not.
i love the lines
"from the notes that I've made so far
love seems something like wanting a scar"
I don't think it's general like that. I think it's about the speaker's own specific view on love; while love is presented everywhere and people assume that love is something that everyone needs, without anyone questioning it - when he asks his friends, they think he's lost his mind. The speaker can't understand why anyone would want to love, or to be in love - what's "the meaning of love", what makes it so big and wonderful and essential when he is happy without ("I've never been in love before").
The lyrics sound sort of naive, I can't help imagining young Martin L Gore writing it - whether it's personal or not.
i love the lines "from the notes that I've made so far love seems something like wanting a scar"