"Skinny Love" is about that time in a relationship that I was going through; you're in a relationship because you need help, but that's not necessarily why you should be in a relationship. And that's skinny. It doesn't have weight. Skinny love doesn't have a chance because it's not nourished."
I feel like this too is hinting at the aneroxic/bulemic
The girl was in the relationship because she needed someone to care for her, but it didn't necessarily mean she cared for him, the relationship was indeed skinny in both ways, she cared so much about her ED that it was consuming her and she didn't have time to indulge in the relation ship because she was depressed, and depressed people tend to isolate themselves. So she wasn't nourished and neither was the relationship.
He basically described in that quote, the relationship between a person w/ an ED and a person who is in love with that person.
Heres my interpretation of the song,
"Come on skinny love just last the year" Referring to the state the girl was in, she was probably becoming increasingly thin, he was noticing and was wondering if she was gonna even last a year in her condition, He was pleading with her to just hold on a little longer and maybe she can get over her condition.
"Pour a little salt we were never here" He wants her to get over her condition and forget about it, pouring salt on wounds is said to slow the bleeding process down,
"Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer" People who suffer from ED's are also well known to self harm, he might have caught her cutting with a piece of veneer, weather its tooth veneer or wood veneer, which are both sharp. Referring back to the salt on the wound, maybe he caught her cutting, said, "Don't worry about it, it never happened, lets move on"
"I tell my love to wreck it all
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall" He wants her to stop, she is dependent on him to keep her alive. He's giving up because he is sick of trying and being around someone who he loves, but who is slowly killing themselves and he doesn't want to stay around and watch, but he feels like he has to so she has to stop so he doesn't feel like this.
"Right in the moment this order's tall" watching and dealing with her ED and depression is too much for him and he doesnt think he can handle it.
"I told you to be patient" he told her that there is a healthy way to lose weight and that she could love herself if she just gave it time,
"I told you to be fine" He wants her to be okay because he thinks she's perfect the way she is but she just couldn't see it, people with ED are obsessed with the idea of the perfect body and they don't care what it takes to get it. He wants her to be normal and fine but she can't because she is diseased with an ED.
"I told you to be balanced" He wants her to eat a balanced diet but she won't eat at all, and he told her but she just won't listen.
"I told you to be kind" people with ED's are overly critical of not only themselves but other people, he wants her to be kind to herself, but she hates everything about herself and often punishes herself by cutting, because she hates her body so much. He told her to stop cutting and learn to love herself but she won't listen.
"In the morning I'll be with you
But it will be a different "kind"" he's going to be there for her still, but he can't continue to be her boyfriend because he's giving up, and he did everything he could but she wouldn't listen.
"I'll be holding all the tickets
And you'll be owning all the fines" He saw and was there through it all, he has the memories with him, but she is the one who is going to be paying for her ED in the long run, cuts, organ failure, death ect.
"Come on skinny love what happened here" Most ED's start out of nowhere, with no known cause, what happened to her to make her this way?
"Suckle on the hope in lite brassiere" when he found her, possibly when she was cutting herself, he might have found her dying, in that case he probably found her in her bra, because people with ED are obsessed with being skinny and small and often get undressed to see where they are at progress wise, she got upset, cut herself and now is laying on the floor dying. He wants her to feed off his hope that she is okay, she is in his arms, like a baby, and he wants her to suckle on his hope...
"Sullen load is full; so slow on the split" The sadness in her finally reached its capacity, it took a while for her to finally "split"
"I told you to be patient
I told you to be fine
I told you to be balanced
I told you to be kind" He told her again and again, she never heard him, she just heard the voices in her head telling her she was worthless and fat.
"Now all your love is wasted?" All the love he had for her is wasted because it never reached her and she never understood it because she didn't even love her self, how could she love him, let alone except his love.
"Then who the hell was I?" If she couldn't love him back then what is he to her?
"Now I'm breaking at the britches" britches means pants, people with ED often cut not only their arms, but their stomachs, and their thighs. She could have cut herself on her legs and he was checking to see if she cut there as well.
"And at the end of all your lines" His heart is breaking because she is talking to him and the things she is saying is so depressing and sad, how she wants to die, and she's no good,
"Who will love you?
Who will fight?
Who will fall far behind?" Who is going to love you in the condition your in, besides himself, she's probably sickly thin and has cuts all over herself, people with and eating disorder often have thin dry hair, when it gets really bad they look bald in places. Who's going to fight to keep you alive? No one besides himself who's been fighting her back the whole time, If he can't keep her alive and put up with this then no one will. She is a lost case, hopeless.
"Come on skinny love" one last plea before he has to move on from this
My my my the whole time is his desperation and astonishment at how bad its gotten.
"Skinny Love" is about that time in a relationship that I was going through; you're in a relationship because you need help, but that's not necessarily why you should be in a relationship. And that's skinny. It doesn't have weight. Skinny love doesn't have a chance because it's not nourished."
I feel like this too is hinting at the aneroxic/bulemic The girl was in the relationship because she needed someone to care for her, but it didn't necessarily mean she cared for him, the relationship was indeed skinny in both ways, she cared so much about her ED that it was consuming her and she didn't have time to indulge in the relation ship because she was depressed, and depressed people tend to isolate themselves. So she wasn't nourished and neither was the relationship. He basically described in that quote, the relationship between a person w/ an ED and a person who is in love with that person.
Heres my interpretation of the song, "Come on skinny love just last the year" Referring to the state the girl was in, she was probably becoming increasingly thin, he was noticing and was wondering if she was gonna even last a year in her condition, He was pleading with her to just hold on a little longer and maybe she can get over her condition.
"Pour a little salt we were never here" He wants her to get over her condition and forget about it, pouring salt on wounds is said to slow the bleeding process down,
"Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer" People who suffer from ED's are also well known to self harm, he might have caught her cutting with a piece of veneer, weather its tooth veneer or wood veneer, which are both sharp. Referring back to the salt on the wound, maybe he caught her cutting, said, "Don't worry about it, it never happened, lets move on"
"I tell my love to wreck it all Cut out all the ropes and let me fall" He wants her to stop, she is dependent on him to keep her alive. He's giving up because he is sick of trying and being around someone who he loves, but who is slowly killing themselves and he doesn't want to stay around and watch, but he feels like he has to so she has to stop so he doesn't feel like this.
"Right in the moment this order's tall" watching and dealing with her ED and depression is too much for him and he doesnt think he can handle it.
"I told you to be patient" he told her that there is a healthy way to lose weight and that she could love herself if she just gave it time,
"I told you to be fine" He wants her to be okay because he thinks she's perfect the way she is but she just couldn't see it, people with ED are obsessed with the idea of the perfect body and they don't care what it takes to get it. He wants her to be normal and fine but she can't because she is diseased with an ED.
"I told you to be balanced" He wants her to eat a balanced diet but she won't eat at all, and he told her but she just won't listen.
"I told you to be kind" people with ED's are overly critical of not only themselves but other people, he wants her to be kind to herself, but she hates everything about herself and often punishes herself by cutting, because she hates her body so much. He told her to stop cutting and learn to love herself but she won't listen.
"In the morning I'll be with you But it will be a different "kind"" he's going to be there for her still, but he can't continue to be her boyfriend because he's giving up, and he did everything he could but she wouldn't listen.
"I'll be holding all the tickets And you'll be owning all the fines" He saw and was there through it all, he has the memories with him, but she is the one who is going to be paying for her ED in the long run, cuts, organ failure, death ect.
"Come on skinny love what happened here" Most ED's start out of nowhere, with no known cause, what happened to her to make her this way?
"Suckle on the hope in lite brassiere" when he found her, possibly when she was cutting herself, he might have found her dying, in that case he probably found her in her bra, because people with ED are obsessed with being skinny and small and often get undressed to see where they are at progress wise, she got upset, cut herself and now is laying on the floor dying. He wants her to feed off his hope that she is okay, she is in his arms, like a baby, and he wants her to suckle on his hope...
"Sullen load is full; so slow on the split" The sadness in her finally reached its capacity, it took a while for her to finally "split"
"I told you to be patient I told you to be fine I told you to be balanced I told you to be kind" He told her again and again, she never heard him, she just heard the voices in her head telling her she was worthless and fat.
"Now all your love is wasted?" All the love he had for her is wasted because it never reached her and she never understood it because she didn't even love her self, how could she love him, let alone except his love.
"Then who the hell was I?" If she couldn't love him back then what is he to her?
"Now I'm breaking at the britches" britches means pants, people with ED often cut not only their arms, but their stomachs, and their thighs. She could have cut herself on her legs and he was checking to see if she cut there as well.
"And at the end of all your lines" His heart is breaking because she is talking to him and the things she is saying is so depressing and sad, how she wants to die, and she's no good,
"Who will love you? Who will fight? Who will fall far behind?" Who is going to love you in the condition your in, besides himself, she's probably sickly thin and has cuts all over herself, people with and eating disorder often have thin dry hair, when it gets really bad they look bald in places. Who's going to fight to keep you alive? No one besides himself who's been fighting her back the whole time, If he can't keep her alive and put up with this then no one will. She is a lost case, hopeless.
"Come on skinny love" one last plea before he has to move on from this
My my my the whole time is his desperation and astonishment at how bad its gotten.