This song starts out sounding really happy and cheerful, with a couple just adoring their new baby and thinking how cute he is and how you just want to wake him up and play with him but then, in the middle of all this cheeriness, comes this incredibly anguished "i know you wanna leave me" which changes the whole meaning for me. so i think its really about two people whose relationship is on the rocks and so they just desperately focus on the baby, which may even be the thing that has come between them. the lyrics even say "why dont we pretend", so they're just pretending everything is hunky dory. the reference to money could be ironic, and a clue to some of their misery
Brilliant analysis. I'd been trying to work out the meaning of the plaintive cry that, although seemingly incongruous, is clearly intended to alter the whole personality of the song from being light and celebratory to something much darker in shade, as you perfectly describe.
Brilliant analysis. I'd been trying to work out the meaning of the plaintive cry that, although seemingly incongruous, is clearly intended to alter the whole personality of the song from being light and celebratory to something much darker in shade, as you perfectly describe.
This song starts out sounding really happy and cheerful, with a couple just adoring their new baby and thinking how cute he is and how you just want to wake him up and play with him but then, in the middle of all this cheeriness, comes this incredibly anguished "i know you wanna leave me" which changes the whole meaning for me. so i think its really about two people whose relationship is on the rocks and so they just desperately focus on the baby, which may even be the thing that has come between them. the lyrics even say "why dont we pretend", so they're just pretending everything is hunky dory. the reference to money could be ironic, and a clue to some of their misery
Brilliant analysis. I'd been trying to work out the meaning of the plaintive cry that, although seemingly incongruous, is clearly intended to alter the whole personality of the song from being light and celebratory to something much darker in shade, as you perfectly describe.
Brilliant analysis. I'd been trying to work out the meaning of the plaintive cry that, although seemingly incongruous, is clearly intended to alter the whole personality of the song from being light and celebratory to something much darker in shade, as you perfectly describe.
The leave me bit reminds me of "babe i'm gonna leave you" by led zeppelin
The leave me bit reminds me of "babe i'm gonna leave you" by led zeppelin