For me it's about being in love whilst knowing its not gonna happen, knowing she doesn't love you, or rejected you.
Hence the title nude: Nude is referring to how naked, vulnerable we are when we're in love.
You've made yourself so vulnerable for emotions, you feel naked towards the one you love, your heart and soul has been stripped from its protection, its armour, leaving you nude.
The song is spoken in third person, the narrator is speaking towards himself, or it's like its conscience, his sense talking to him.
"Don't get any big ideas
They're not going to happen"
This is the narrator reminding himself it's not gonna happen, trying to convince himself of the impossibility, hoping that it might help him get over her. Because this feeling of nudeness is painful, he hates it, no man wants to be this vulnerable, nude towards the world.
"You paint yourself white
And fill up with noise
But there'll be something missing"
You paint yourself free and clean of the love, the nude, try to hide everything that reminds you of the stupidity you're in, you try to fill yourself up with noise, with things to compensate for the void in your heart, friends, partys, activities, whatever, but in the end, it just won't fill the void; something'll be missing.
"Now that you've found it, it's gone
Now that you feel it, you don't
You've gone off the rails"
The paradoxes are referring to how you think you've found the love, but then discovered it'll never be yours. It's there, but never yours;
You were on the rails to love, but somehow you got off them, coincidentally, through internal or external influences, I dont know.
But in the end, you still love her.
You want her, no matter what, since that's simply what you feel.
Even though you know it's not gonna happen, that maybe the consequences are terrible, you still want her, you can't help thinking about her, longing for her.
You can't help having this 'dirty' mind, with 'dirty' desires and wishes, that'll never come true.
You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking.
A possibility is that like in other songs like House of Cards and Fake Plastic Trees, that the girl the guy wants already has someone else. So that might contribute to the "dirtyness" of the "mind".
Anyways love this song, kinda resembles some of my situations, so I thought I'd give my interpretation on it, thanks for reading.
I think that is pretty spot on. That's exactly the feeling I get out of the song as well. Could just be because that's my situation, but it's quite fitting!
I think that is pretty spot on. That's exactly the feeling I get out of the song as well. Could just be because that's my situation, but it's quite fitting!
For me it's about being in love whilst knowing its not gonna happen, knowing she doesn't love you, or rejected you.
Hence the title nude: Nude is referring to how naked, vulnerable we are when we're in love. You've made yourself so vulnerable for emotions, you feel naked towards the one you love, your heart and soul has been stripped from its protection, its armour, leaving you nude. The song is spoken in third person, the narrator is speaking towards himself, or it's like its conscience, his sense talking to him.
"Don't get any big ideas They're not going to happen"
This is the narrator reminding himself it's not gonna happen, trying to convince himself of the impossibility, hoping that it might help him get over her. Because this feeling of nudeness is painful, he hates it, no man wants to be this vulnerable, nude towards the world.
"You paint yourself white And fill up with noise But there'll be something missing"
You paint yourself free and clean of the love, the nude, try to hide everything that reminds you of the stupidity you're in, you try to fill yourself up with noise, with things to compensate for the void in your heart, friends, partys, activities, whatever, but in the end, it just won't fill the void; something'll be missing.
"Now that you've found it, it's gone Now that you feel it, you don't You've gone off the rails"
The paradoxes are referring to how you think you've found the love, but then discovered it'll never be yours. It's there, but never yours; You were on the rails to love, but somehow you got off them, coincidentally, through internal or external influences, I dont know.
But in the end, you still love her. You want her, no matter what, since that's simply what you feel. Even though you know it's not gonna happen, that maybe the consequences are terrible, you still want her, you can't help thinking about her, longing for her. You can't help having this 'dirty' mind, with 'dirty' desires and wishes, that'll never come true. You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking.
A possibility is that like in other songs like House of Cards and Fake Plastic Trees, that the girl the guy wants already has someone else. So that might contribute to the "dirtyness" of the "mind".
Anyways love this song, kinda resembles some of my situations, so I thought I'd give my interpretation on it, thanks for reading.
Jin over and out :)
I think that is pretty spot on. That's exactly the feeling I get out of the song as well. Could just be because that's my situation, but it's quite fitting!
I think that is pretty spot on. That's exactly the feeling I get out of the song as well. Could just be because that's my situation, but it's quite fitting!