I can't help but feeling this song is the lament of a vampire. I'd usually be the first to denounce the vampire craze going on right now (yes, I realize this album came out prior to the teen vampire craze), so it kinds irritates me that I feel this way about such a great song. I think the song itself flows with Jacksonville City Nights as a whole, but I also believe RA would write and would get a good kick out of such a double entendre.
Here's why I feel like this song could also be about vampires, it should be obvious.
Go and get the gun
Cause its only getting worse
Go and fill it up with silver bullets
Cause I cant see the sun
But I know its going away
And I cant make you love me
And you cant make me stay
-The narrator can't see the sun because it would harm him. Yet the narrator knows night will fall and he'll become the vampire he doesn't want to be. This causes his lover to no longer love him, although she would if she could make him "stay" his normal self.
Alternately I think this line could mean she'll never truly love him, but she doesn't feel that's enough reason for him to kill himself.
I'm the wolves at the door
You're not supposed to let in
But you can't make me feel if I'm not feeling
-The narrator realizes they never should have gotten involved. I believe the "feel" that is talked of here, is love, the narrators significant other wants to be loved...but it's really just lust because of the vampire condition.
I won't continue on because the song reiterates what I've said just in different words. The narrator in short wants to kill himself because by being a vampire he's robbed of being able to love and be loved like the rest of us. In the end rather than suffer or cause his lover to suffer he commits suicide. Like I said above, I believe this song is more about misbegotten love rather than vampires, but I can't help but see both stories played out here.
I can't help but feeling this song is the lament of a vampire. I'd usually be the first to denounce the vampire craze going on right now (yes, I realize this album came out prior to the teen vampire craze), so it kinds irritates me that I feel this way about such a great song. I think the song itself flows with Jacksonville City Nights as a whole, but I also believe RA would write and would get a good kick out of such a double entendre.
Here's why I feel like this song could also be about vampires, it should be obvious.
Go and get the gun Cause its only getting worse Go and fill it up with silver bullets
-Silver bullets kill vampires, werewolves, demons, etc...
Cause I cant see the sun But I know its going away And I cant make you love me And you cant make me stay
-The narrator can't see the sun because it would harm him. Yet the narrator knows night will fall and he'll become the vampire he doesn't want to be. This causes his lover to no longer love him, although she would if she could make him "stay" his normal self.
Alternately I think this line could mean she'll never truly love him, but she doesn't feel that's enough reason for him to kill himself.
I'm the wolves at the door You're not supposed to let in But you can't make me feel if I'm not feeling
-The narrator realizes they never should have gotten involved. I believe the "feel" that is talked of here, is love, the narrators significant other wants to be loved...but it's really just lust because of the vampire condition.
I won't continue on because the song reiterates what I've said just in different words. The narrator in short wants to kill himself because by being a vampire he's robbed of being able to love and be loved like the rest of us. In the end rather than suffer or cause his lover to suffer he commits suicide. Like I said above, I believe this song is more about misbegotten love rather than vampires, but I can't help but see both stories played out here.