"We don't have to be stars exploding in the night or electric eels under the covers. We don't have to be anything quite so unreal, let's just be lovers."
and while I don't think the songs relate much I do think this line expresses something similar. Like everyone is saying about the hyped up concept of love, we expect some sort of miracle to fall on us when we fall in love but actually nothing like that happens, the world just keeps going. What this song really emphasizes to me is that it's not the stars exploding around you, or the fireworks in a movie kiss that make love so incredible, it's just the love, it's that person standing infront of you wrapped in a coat, the way you feel them all down your veins, how the world can go to war outside your window and all you care about is being there for them.
There's a line in a Magnetic Fields (Chicken with it's head cut off - http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/88594/) song that says:
"We don't have to be stars exploding in the night or electric eels under the covers. We don't have to be anything quite so unreal, let's just be lovers."
and while I don't think the songs relate much I do think this line expresses something similar. Like everyone is saying about the hyped up concept of love, we expect some sort of miracle to fall on us when we fall in love but actually nothing like that happens, the world just keeps going. What this song really emphasizes to me is that it's not the stars exploding around you, or the fireworks in a movie kiss that make love so incredible, it's just the love, it's that person standing infront of you wrapped in a coat, the way you feel them all down your veins, how the world can go to war outside your window and all you care about is being there for them.