MaskOfSanity, I disagree with your interpretation. I think that this song is about a particular type of desire. This desire being: a desire for somebody who is not your partner. This song is also about the way that this adulterous desire makes you feel about yourself.
I love this song because I think that any red-blooded person has suffered from an adulterous desire. There exists a myth that once you are in a relationship you can just turn of your passions, as if you were turning of a water-tap. For me, and many others, this is not true. I have often felt an adulterous desire that has made me want to 'scream, come home!'.
I have never succombed to these desires but that does not mean that they do not exist in me. A great set of lyrics and a great song.
This song is about the uncontrollable nature of passion. But, I also think that there is a coming of age in this song, it's a buildunsroman where the lyricist realises his own hypocrisy. I think that the lyricist felt that he was different to adulterers, in that he could never even desire another person, once he was in a relationship.
However, the lyricist finds himself confronted by adulterouss desire and, consequently, by his own hypocrisy.
I think that ' the need to feel that you are not holding me' is his wish not to be bondaged to his adulterous desire, however, he has come to realise that it is not possible to control sexual desire and that he is attracted to this person and, therefore, feels the same way as adulterers. The people he'd loathed and thought he had nothing in common with.
Sorry I rushed my previous post. What I should have written was: 'an adulterous desire that has made me want to 'scream, come home!' to the object of my own adulterous desire'.
Sorry I rushed my previous post. What I should have written was: 'an adulterous desire that has made me want to 'scream, come home!' to the object of my own adulterous desire'.
MaskOfSanity I realise that you know more of the biography of the band than I do, but even if Tim Booth did not intend the interpretation that I have. It seems, to me, to fit with the lyrics.
MaskOfSanity I realise that you know more of the biography of the band than I do, but even if Tim Booth did not intend the interpretation that I have. It seems, to me, to fit with the lyrics.
MaskOfSanity, I disagree with your interpretation. I think that this song is about a particular type of desire. This desire being: a desire for somebody who is not your partner. This song is also about the way that this adulterous desire makes you feel about yourself.
I love this song because I think that any red-blooded person has suffered from an adulterous desire. There exists a myth that once you are in a relationship you can just turn of your passions, as if you were turning of a water-tap. For me, and many others, this is not true. I have often felt an adulterous desire that has made me want to 'scream, come home!'.
I have never succombed to these desires but that does not mean that they do not exist in me. A great set of lyrics and a great song.
This song is about the uncontrollable nature of passion. But, I also think that there is a coming of age in this song, it's a buildunsroman where the lyricist realises his own hypocrisy. I think that the lyricist felt that he was different to adulterers, in that he could never even desire another person, once he was in a relationship.
However, the lyricist finds himself confronted by adulterouss desire and, consequently, by his own hypocrisy.
I think that ' the need to feel that you are not holding me' is his wish not to be bondaged to his adulterous desire, however, he has come to realise that it is not possible to control sexual desire and that he is attracted to this person and, therefore, feels the same way as adulterers. The people he'd loathed and thought he had nothing in common with.
Sorry I rushed my previous post. What I should have written was: 'an adulterous desire that has made me want to 'scream, come home!' to the object of my own adulterous desire'.
Sorry I rushed my previous post. What I should have written was: 'an adulterous desire that has made me want to 'scream, come home!' to the object of my own adulterous desire'.
MaskOfSanity I realise that you know more of the biography of the band than I do, but even if Tim Booth did not intend the interpretation that I have. It seems, to me, to fit with the lyrics.
MaskOfSanity I realise that you know more of the biography of the band than I do, but even if Tim Booth did not intend the interpretation that I have. It seems, to me, to fit with the lyrics.