"Do I Wanna Know?" is the writer's question to himself. Would he rather be told that the feeling isn't mutual or would he rather continue his torture, unable to move either forwards with this person he loves or onwards with someone new?
"Have you got the guts?" – a self-question. Has he got the guts to tell her straight and face rejection?
The theme is similar to that of 2007's "Do me a favour"...the difference is that in this song he begs her to put him out of his misery: "Do me a favour / break my nose / tell me to go away .. and to tear apart the ties that bind, perhaps f- off might be to kind" ...
I think there's no satisfactory answer. In the "best" case for the writer–just imagine if she were to reciprocate. 2.2 kids and everyone lives happily ever after? Good luck to them if they can manage it. But maybe the point is, the essence of attraction is to be attracted to whatever is just slightly out of reach. You can either torture yourself with that, or just accept it as one of the paradoxes of being human, being alive and being true to your nature.
"Do I Wanna Know?" is the writer's question to himself. Would he rather be told that the feeling isn't mutual or would he rather continue his torture, unable to move either forwards with this person he loves or onwards with someone new?
"Have you got the guts?" – a self-question. Has he got the guts to tell her straight and face rejection?
The theme is similar to that of 2007's "Do me a favour"...the difference is that in this song he begs her to put him out of his misery: "Do me a favour / break my nose / tell me to go away .. and to tear apart the ties that bind, perhaps f- off might be to kind" ...
I think there's no satisfactory answer. In the "best" case for the writer–just imagine if she were to reciprocate. 2.2 kids and everyone lives happily ever after? Good luck to them if they can manage it. But maybe the point is, the essence of attraction is to be attracted to whatever is just slightly out of reach. You can either torture yourself with that, or just accept it as one of the paradoxes of being human, being alive and being true to your nature.
This is exactly what I thought when I listened to it too. I think your interpretation is the one closest to mine.
This is exactly what I thought when I listened to it too. I think your interpretation is the one closest to mine.