My favorite Moby song, probably just from relating to it. Surprised there are not more comments.
To me this song is pretty clearly about a relationship that has ended because one person (the singer) stopped pretending.
The reason they were pretending/lying was in order to keep the other person.
And in the end, the singer is reflecting and wondering if the other person ever even realized they were lying and pretending for them.
The singer is also realizing that pretending and lying to keep the person had been a total waste of time. It was all a waste and for nothing in the end.
And it was all a fantasy anyway. They had to pretend and lie to make it work, so very little of it was even real.
That fantasy is all theirs, and it will die with them.
Yet nothing real is theirs in the end.
The song is neat and beautiful because it doesn't try to pick a feeling and run with it.
It admits sorrow and a cynical feeling of "what a waste" yet also admits that the fantasy -was- beautiful. It admits they lost the fantasy when it broke, yet admit they will keep it anyway.
My favorite Moby song, probably just from relating to it. Surprised there are not more comments.
To me this song is pretty clearly about a relationship that has ended because one person (the singer) stopped pretending.
The reason they were pretending/lying was in order to keep the other person.
And in the end, the singer is reflecting and wondering if the other person ever even realized they were lying and pretending for them.
The singer is also realizing that pretending and lying to keep the person had been a total waste of time. It was all a waste and for nothing in the end.
And it was all a fantasy anyway. They had to pretend and lie to make it work, so very little of it was even real.
That fantasy is all theirs, and it will die with them.
Yet nothing real is theirs in the end.
The song is neat and beautiful because it doesn't try to pick a feeling and run with it.
It admits sorrow and a cynical feeling of "what a waste" yet also admits that the fantasy -was- beautiful. It admits they lost the fantasy when it broke, yet admit they will keep it anyway.