She keeps repeating "money is pain" and then the lines
"I take it too hard
You don't even mean it
I'm dying for your love
You take it too hard
When I don't even feel it
'Cause you're paying for my love"
make me feel as if she's talking about someone is paying her to give them her "love"
idk if this is a far-fetched idea, but that's what I get from the song.
anyways, this is one of my favorite songs off of the album. I love the string arrangements and her vocals are just stunning.
I completely agree with you eyeglasses. Maybe we're being too simple in our interpretations but the song over and over again emphasizes the relationship between a sex worker and a "customer." With references to paying for sex and the complications such a relationship creates.
In the first three stanzas, it is told from the desperate (paying) lover's perspective. Then it switches over the worker's perspective saying, "I don't feel it (because you're paying for it)."
The reference to change and rebirth may be the opportunities for both parties to change their ways and learn to value love and sex more by discontinuing...
I completely agree with you eyeglasses. Maybe we're being too simple in our interpretations but the song over and over again emphasizes the relationship between a sex worker and a "customer." With references to paying for sex and the complications such a relationship creates.
In the first three stanzas, it is told from the desperate (paying) lover's perspective. Then it switches over the worker's perspective saying, "I don't feel it (because you're paying for it)."
The reference to change and rebirth may be the opportunities for both parties to change their ways and learn to value love and sex more by discontinuing their acts.
Finally, the last stanzas are perhaps the most ambiguous in the whole song. They can be interpreted in many ways but one of those might be that perhaps it's the worker feeling as though when he/she gives him/herself to people without being paid, he/she simply feels unwanted: "LIke it's worth something." This could be a sad statement displaying how worthless the worker might feel. In any case, there's an understated feeling of unworthiness and/or a lack of appreciation. My 2 cents.
She keeps repeating "money is pain" and then the lines "I take it too hard You don't even mean it I'm dying for your love
You take it too hard When I don't even feel it 'Cause you're paying for my love"
make me feel as if she's talking about someone is paying her to give them her "love" idk if this is a far-fetched idea, but that's what I get from the song.
anyways, this is one of my favorite songs off of the album. I love the string arrangements and her vocals are just stunning.
I completely agree with you eyeglasses. Maybe we're being too simple in our interpretations but the song over and over again emphasizes the relationship between a sex worker and a "customer." With references to paying for sex and the complications such a relationship creates. In the first three stanzas, it is told from the desperate (paying) lover's perspective. Then it switches over the worker's perspective saying, "I don't feel it (because you're paying for it)." The reference to change and rebirth may be the opportunities for both parties to change their ways and learn to value love and sex more by discontinuing...
I completely agree with you eyeglasses. Maybe we're being too simple in our interpretations but the song over and over again emphasizes the relationship between a sex worker and a "customer." With references to paying for sex and the complications such a relationship creates. In the first three stanzas, it is told from the desperate (paying) lover's perspective. Then it switches over the worker's perspective saying, "I don't feel it (because you're paying for it)." The reference to change and rebirth may be the opportunities for both parties to change their ways and learn to value love and sex more by discontinuing their acts. Finally, the last stanzas are perhaps the most ambiguous in the whole song. They can be interpreted in many ways but one of those might be that perhaps it's the worker feeling as though when he/she gives him/herself to people without being paid, he/she simply feels unwanted: "LIke it's worth something." This could be a sad statement displaying how worthless the worker might feel. In any case, there's an understated feeling of unworthiness and/or a lack of appreciation. My 2 cents.