To understand this song we have to look at its context in the album. This song if found right between 'Abuse of SID' and 'Yearn'. In 'Abuse of SID' we listen to the narrator spectate a woman he once loved be beaten and abused by another man, with the bittersweet realization that even if she left her abuser she would still never be with the narrator again. He has front-row seats to her slow agonizing destruction but is powerless to do anything about it. On the other end of Just a Thought we have 'Yearn', a more classically inspired piece on the strings that lives up to its name by being longing, tranquil, obscured, and unresolved.
Now the lyrics in 'Just a thought' take us to a time when things are falling apart between two lovers, the narrator spirals downwards in a cycle of self-destruction, punishing himself for his own wrongs and the wrongs of his lover. In (his) eyes the only way he can justify inflicting the pain on himself he needs to get over (her) is by villainizing himself and picturing his lover as perfect.
When people ask me to describe the band Hurt to them, I tell them that if a man came home to find his wife had murdered their newborn baby, and them commit suicide, and he sat down with a bottle of whiskey and a guitar - this is the music he would write. It's dark, tortured, twisted, and evokes emotion. All things that most of us can relate to at our darkest moments.
'Just a Tought' to me is about a man carrying all the blame for everything wrong in a relationship that's quickly deteriorating on himself and using that to fuel his own self-destructive desires.
To understand this song we have to look at its context in the album. This song if found right between 'Abuse of SID' and 'Yearn'. In 'Abuse of SID' we listen to the narrator spectate a woman he once loved be beaten and abused by another man, with the bittersweet realization that even if she left her abuser she would still never be with the narrator again. He has front-row seats to her slow agonizing destruction but is powerless to do anything about it. On the other end of Just a Thought we have 'Yearn', a more classically inspired piece on the strings that lives up to its name by being longing, tranquil, obscured, and unresolved.
Now the lyrics in 'Just a thought' take us to a time when things are falling apart between two lovers, the narrator spirals downwards in a cycle of self-destruction, punishing himself for his own wrongs and the wrongs of his lover. In (his) eyes the only way he can justify inflicting the pain on himself he needs to get over (her) is by villainizing himself and picturing his lover as perfect.
When people ask me to describe the band Hurt to them, I tell them that if a man came home to find his wife had murdered their newborn baby, and them commit suicide, and he sat down with a bottle of whiskey and a guitar - this is the music he would write. It's dark, tortured, twisted, and evokes emotion. All things that most of us can relate to at our darkest moments.
'Just a Tought' to me is about a man carrying all the blame for everything wrong in a relationship that's quickly deteriorating on himself and using that to fuel his own self-destructive desires.