To say this song has no sexual meanings is silly.
What Bert said about "a relationship with someone you love so much that you could absolutely kill them" and "Being a part of someone's life means you get to know everything you can't stand about that person" makes me relate it to 'loving someone so much you've ended up destroying [parts of] them.'
The first few years I listened to it, I thought about committing suicide, but having gone back it sounds more like watching someone else do it/helping them. The petals part got me thinking about anatomy - the abuse of sex (and as another commenter said, rape) and passion all rolled into what essentially means to transform something beautiful into something awful.
Maybe this song is about two people just hurting each other in grotesque ways, trying to find compromise, since "most of the time, those [the things you can' stand] are the things you end up loving the most" - so 'if we cut out the bad then we'd have nothing left' of the relationship.
Then perhaps "losing [whoever's] head" is a metaphor for changing, leaving the other behind ('couldn't come').
To say this song has no sexual meanings is silly. What Bert said about "a relationship with someone you love so much that you could absolutely kill them" and "Being a part of someone's life means you get to know everything you can't stand about that person" makes me relate it to 'loving someone so much you've ended up destroying [parts of] them.' The first few years I listened to it, I thought about committing suicide, but having gone back it sounds more like watching someone else do it/helping them. The petals part got me thinking about anatomy - the abuse of sex (and as another commenter said, rape) and passion all rolled into what essentially means to transform something beautiful into something awful. Maybe this song is about two people just hurting each other in grotesque ways, trying to find compromise, since "most of the time, those [the things you can' stand] are the things you end up loving the most" - so 'if we cut out the bad then we'd have nothing left' of the relationship. Then perhaps "losing [whoever's] head" is a metaphor for changing, leaving the other behind ('couldn't come').
Great song, those are just my stupid ideas.
wow tht was... deep
wow tht was... deep