This song is essentially about a lovesick obsession that has created some sort of mental illness and serves as a metaphor for the true nature of love. She insists that love is a form of insanity and only a reciprocating love will cure it.
From the beginning, soft and unintelligible words echo in an eerie fashion. This serves to create the illusion of having voices in one's head. Then the first verse comes in, talking to her mother giving her life tips that she completely ignores for this one person. She continues to say that she thinks she may be going astray, but choses to ignore those thoughts because the person she is in love with serves as a guiding light for her.
The chorus refers to "the men in white coats" coming around and her lover defeating them. The men in white coats are the orderlies at a mental hospital who are taking her away, referring to the idiom "the men in white coats are coming".
In the end, she says her lover just watches them take her down as opposed to saving her, suggesting that her "lover" may not be a lover at all, but rather a person she has a deep and powerful unrequited love for this person who does not really feel the same way.
The song tells a story of a woman being held in a mental hospital, but it actually serves as a metaphor for what falling in love with someone who doesn't love you back feels like, which is like you're going insane.
This song is essentially about a lovesick obsession that has created some sort of mental illness and serves as a metaphor for the true nature of love. She insists that love is a form of insanity and only a reciprocating love will cure it. From the beginning, soft and unintelligible words echo in an eerie fashion. This serves to create the illusion of having voices in one's head. Then the first verse comes in, talking to her mother giving her life tips that she completely ignores for this one person. She continues to say that she thinks she may be going astray, but choses to ignore those thoughts because the person she is in love with serves as a guiding light for her. The chorus refers to "the men in white coats" coming around and her lover defeating them. The men in white coats are the orderlies at a mental hospital who are taking her away, referring to the idiom "the men in white coats are coming". In the end, she says her lover just watches them take her down as opposed to saving her, suggesting that her "lover" may not be a lover at all, but rather a person she has a deep and powerful unrequited love for this person who does not really feel the same way. The song tells a story of a woman being held in a mental hospital, but it actually serves as a metaphor for what falling in love with someone who doesn't love you back feels like, which is like you're going insane.