This is one of my favourite Missy songs. And I agree with most people on here in thinking that it is about a forbidden relationship of some sort. And I’m going to interpret it as a forbidden relationship with a girl, but it can easily be about any sort of forbidden relationship ie: older person, younger person, person that your parents/friends disapprove of based on any other reason and etc.
But here’s my interpretation:
You breathed infinity into my world
The first line makes it clear that whatever happened had some sort of profound affect and may have changed the narrator indefinitely
Then you said, "wait for me we'll fly the wind,
we'll grow old and you'll be stronger without him"
This sounds like something someone younger would say, it just seems dramatic and intense (growing old and being together forever), so this kind of makes me think that both the narrator and this girl are younger idk maybe teenagers. Anyways it seems as though the girl has liked the narrator for some time now, again in reference to the growing old together comment. So even though people have said that Missy said at a concert that it was about a one night stand, I think it was a one sided one night stand if that makes sense :P . Like the girl has liked the narrator for so long and she had always wanted to get intimate with her but the narrator never had such a strong desire for the girl until this night.
but oh, now my world is at your feet. I was lost and I was found,
but I was alive and now I've drowned.
Now again, even though the narrator never viewed the girl as a love interest, this night it has all changed. What happened between the narrator and the girl that night was amazing and better and beyond whatever she may have imagined it to be like. Again this is with the assumption that the narrator had never thought of being intimate with a girl and even when she did she may have always thought it was maybe gross and wouldn’t live up to being as good as it actually ended up being.
But just as quickly as it happened, the narrator seems to quickly regret it:
“but I was alive and now I’ve drowned, so now I will be waiting for the world to hear my song so they can tell me I was wrong”. So I think the narrator is feeling very confused, on the one hand she enjoyed all that happened and wants to tell people, but on the other hand she knows that if the world here about her happiness (her song) then they will just judge her and tell her it was wrong even though they weren’t there and will never know how amazing it all felt.
You sighed and I was lost in you, weeks could've past for all I knew.
You were there blanket of the over-world and so I couldn't say,
I wouldn't say "no". But they all said, "you're too young to even know,
just don't let it grow and you'll be stronger without him"
So I think by this point she decided to tell people about what had occurred between her and the girl. And the response she gets is that you’re too young to even know what you like and don’t like and that this thing with the girl was just a moment of vulnerability, so even though you can’t go back and reverse it, just don’t let it (the feelings/longings) grow any further and soon enough you won’t be so vulnerable and can move on fully from your ex boyfriend.
I think that in the end the narrator tried to listen to the advice given by “the world” and didn’t pursue the relationship with the girl and maybe that is why it was only a one night thing.
But even though she didn’t pursue the relationship with this girl, it never left her mind (hence why the chorus is repeated until the end of the song). Her mind keeps going back to the feelings that she felt that night and she’s wondering how do they even know what she felt if “they weren’t there”. And she also keeps thinking about how she couldn’t say no when it happened and maybe if she could go back to that night she still wouldn’t say no.
Anyways that’s my interpretation of the song and like I said you can replace the lesbian relationship with any other “forbidden relationship” and it all makes sense. I just probably interpret it strongly the way I do because I can relate to some of the themes presented in the song. I always thought I was straight until I met one girl and even though it all felt natural, I was really confused because I still liked guys.....:P and when I confided in some people, I kind of got the respond that the narrator in the song got. And I think the reason I got the response that I did was because since I still liked/like males people just assumed liking a girl was a onetime thing. They seemed to hold the view that one could only like one sex or the other with not much leeway in between. And with me being young and all, I assumed that maybe they were right and tried to ignore the feelings. But it obviously wasn’t and I eventually understood that I didn’t have to confine myself to one end of the invisible sexuality spectrum.
This came out to be a long sermon when alls I wanted to say was that it’s a great song and I can relate to it as I’m sure many others can too :P
This is one of my favourite Missy songs. And I agree with most people on here in thinking that it is about a forbidden relationship of some sort. And I’m going to interpret it as a forbidden relationship with a girl, but it can easily be about any sort of forbidden relationship ie: older person, younger person, person that your parents/friends disapprove of based on any other reason and etc. But here’s my interpretation: You breathed infinity into my world
Then you said, "wait for me we'll fly the wind, we'll grow old and you'll be stronger without him"
but oh, now my world is at your feet. I was lost and I was found, but I was alive and now I've drowned.
You sighed and I was lost in you, weeks could've past for all I knew. You were there blanket of the over-world and so I couldn't say, I wouldn't say "no". But they all said, "you're too young to even know, just don't let it grow and you'll be stronger without him"
I think that in the end the narrator tried to listen to the advice given by “the world” and didn’t pursue the relationship with the girl and maybe that is why it was only a one night thing. But even though she didn’t pursue the relationship with this girl, it never left her mind (hence why the chorus is repeated until the end of the song). Her mind keeps going back to the feelings that she felt that night and she’s wondering how do they even know what she felt if “they weren’t there”. And she also keeps thinking about how she couldn’t say no when it happened and maybe if she could go back to that night she still wouldn’t say no.
Anyways that’s my interpretation of the song and like I said you can replace the lesbian relationship with any other “forbidden relationship” and it all makes sense. I just probably interpret it strongly the way I do because I can relate to some of the themes presented in the song. I always thought I was straight until I met one girl and even though it all felt natural, I was really confused because I still liked guys.....:P and when I confided in some people, I kind of got the respond that the narrator in the song got. And I think the reason I got the response that I did was because since I still liked/like males people just assumed liking a girl was a onetime thing. They seemed to hold the view that one could only like one sex or the other with not much leeway in between. And with me being young and all, I assumed that maybe they were right and tried to ignore the feelings. But it obviously wasn’t and I eventually understood that I didn’t have to confine myself to one end of the invisible sexuality spectrum.
This came out to be a long sermon when alls I wanted to say was that it’s a great song and I can relate to it as I’m sure many others can too :P