All Your Gold Lyrics

Lyric discussion by vmad 

Cover art for All Your Gold lyrics by Bat for Lashes

Most music anyone falls in love with resonates based on how you can empathize from it. How I interpret these lyrics hits home with what I'm going through right now. What Natasha is really saying can really be a mystery it's all based on perception. But how I apply this song is..The girl is painfully confused. How I see is this is as the her struggling with the "new" him but loving him for all the old reasons. Before all these feelings is the reality that she has been stripped of all her great qualities, her "gold", she lost all her values from all the pain he caused her. And now that she's back with him, he's all grown and changed but she's still this; without her gold. He's everything she's always wanted..he tells her sweet nothings but lies still echo, she can't forget and let go of what he used to be. He understands and sees all the pain he caused her, he holds her close, but what he was before still has her trapped. She's still a victim of that first love, what he first was, and now he's this new fresh everything. He's learned he's grown. But he's not the man she sees herself marrying, what he was only makes her upset, makes her emotional, makes her unreasonable. She's a mess, he made her this mess. But he's a good man, he's a good man. But she just can't let go..she's keeps telling herself to just let go. It would be easier to just let go. For him, for anyone, she has nothing special left. It's irrational for her to love what he was, what he was made her this victim; this new guy that he is, this everything she's always wanted is just someone unfamiliar she doesn't have THAT love for; and she now is this mess because of him. She's insecure, she has no trust...and needs reclaim her values.

My Interpretation