Candles Lyrics

Lyric discussion by FragileOne 

Cover art for Candles lyrics by Daughter

I can really relate to this song in a lot of ways. It reminds me of my teenage years, when I had just started sleeping around, and was emotionally affected by almost every guy I had been with. As I got older, I found myself able to separate the emotions from sex. Eventually, sex was just sex. I could sleep with someone and literally never talk to them again without feeling any remorse. Sex is meaningless to me; even to this day. There is, however, always that person that comes along every now and then that makes you feel alone afterwards; after the high subsides. He makes you question, is it the sex that I crave, or am I subconsciously craving some other sort of connection? Something that I'm not even fully aware of? Anyway, this song reminds me of that feeling. When you start sleeping with someone, and eventually you catch some deep feelings for them. The dark, melancholy tone of the song takes me to that place again. When the high wears off, and I realize that I am nothing but a "space filling his sheets".

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