I think Fitzgerald once said this was based on a novel he read. I can't think of where I read that, but finding this out really cleared up some confusion for me.
Until I heard Death Of Cool (the second album of theirs that I ever owned), I was confused about what his sexuality was. "Polaroids" and "Gorgeous Love" seemed to have references to being gay, but this song seemed to indicate that he was straight. Mind you, this was a different time for me, and I've since learned a few things about the world--for example, he could have been bisexual, though this didn't occur to me at the time. After finding out he's actually gay, I figured maybe he had left a woman once in his life to be himself, but she took it badly, having a history of dating men who don't stay. That's probably what the novel is about, incidentally--I don't read novels, so I wouldn't know.
In any case, it's a powerful (and quite catchy) song about dejection, trust issues, and bad patterns. I like the switch in the first two lines of the chorus--"...hope that I've taken...drugs to make it painless." It's as if the hope actually makes things worse, implying that what is hoped for is the real problem. It's one of Fitzgerald's best little strokes of pen.
I first heard this song sometime in July/August 2014 and have fallen in love with it. This song has a special meaning for me and probably will for the rest of my life. I interpret this song and it's catchy chorus like this. Hope/Dreams are something all men need to move forward in any kind of relationship with another person. The drugs help anything feel better, especially uncertainty, feel less painful at first as well as a way to self medicate. The drugs to make it painless implies this. The last chorus says the dreams make it painful...
I first heard this song sometime in July/August 2014 and have fallen in love with it. This song has a special meaning for me and probably will for the rest of my life. I interpret this song and it's catchy chorus like this. Hope/Dreams are something all men need to move forward in any kind of relationship with another person. The drugs help anything feel better, especially uncertainty, feel less painful at first as well as a way to self medicate. The drugs to make it painless implies this. The last chorus says the dreams make it painful which is a paradox to the drugs make it painless verse. Without the drugs to take away the pain, the dreams still exist but are painful now without the drugs. We go from one of these to the very next very quickly like rainbows. If you've ever noticed rainbows form rather quickly in the sky and disappear quickly as well.
I think Fitzgerald once said this was based on a novel he read. I can't think of where I read that, but finding this out really cleared up some confusion for me.
Until I heard Death Of Cool (the second album of theirs that I ever owned), I was confused about what his sexuality was. "Polaroids" and "Gorgeous Love" seemed to have references to being gay, but this song seemed to indicate that he was straight. Mind you, this was a different time for me, and I've since learned a few things about the world--for example, he could have been bisexual, though this didn't occur to me at the time. After finding out he's actually gay, I figured maybe he had left a woman once in his life to be himself, but she took it badly, having a history of dating men who don't stay. That's probably what the novel is about, incidentally--I don't read novels, so I wouldn't know.
In any case, it's a powerful (and quite catchy) song about dejection, trust issues, and bad patterns. I like the switch in the first two lines of the chorus--"...hope that I've taken...drugs to make it painless." It's as if the hope actually makes things worse, implying that what is hoped for is the real problem. It's one of Fitzgerald's best little strokes of pen.
I first heard this song sometime in July/August 2014 and have fallen in love with it. This song has a special meaning for me and probably will for the rest of my life. I interpret this song and it's catchy chorus like this. Hope/Dreams are something all men need to move forward in any kind of relationship with another person. The drugs help anything feel better, especially uncertainty, feel less painful at first as well as a way to self medicate. The drugs to make it painless implies this. The last chorus says the dreams make it painful...
I first heard this song sometime in July/August 2014 and have fallen in love with it. This song has a special meaning for me and probably will for the rest of my life. I interpret this song and it's catchy chorus like this. Hope/Dreams are something all men need to move forward in any kind of relationship with another person. The drugs help anything feel better, especially uncertainty, feel less painful at first as well as a way to self medicate. The drugs to make it painless implies this. The last chorus says the dreams make it painful which is a paradox to the drugs make it painless verse. Without the drugs to take away the pain, the dreams still exist but are painful now without the drugs. We go from one of these to the very next very quickly like rainbows. If you've ever noticed rainbows form rather quickly in the sky and disappear quickly as well.