Beautiful video. It really adds to the song's meaning.
He has been with a woman so long that having sex with her is basically masturbation. They have become so familiar that the excitement is gone. They are captive in their cage (place that we call home). He feels like such a stereotypical example of a couple that he might as well be a zoo exhibit representing a monogamous pair.
They're comfortable with enmity like only long term partners can be, irritated by the very presence of the other one but still dependent on it. He longs for what they used to have, the love that is pure, delicious sin but admits that they were never very good at communicating.
He tells her that the spark is gone and that he wants out. He even refers to suicide as an option for escaping the relationship and seems to break up with his partner towards the end of the song.
However, the last turn of the song rings nostalgic. He calls up his ex and tells her that he will always love her and that the loss of intimacy is hard (it's cold in space).
When he says "I'll always be a lover in captivity" he might mean that part of him will always be with her.
If you want to take a broader view, he might be referring to his love/hate relationship with intimacy and monogamy. That the trade off between the warmth of a real and long relationship will always be juxtaposed with the tedium of consistency.
P.S. On a personal note, I recommend that he finds a woman he likes and gets creative. That way he can have a little bit of sin and some warmth to go with it.
Nice! I really like this interpretation, I think it's spot on. Kind of what I was getting at here, I was just having trouble putting it all together. Great song anyway, very relatable, especially with what I think it means now.
Nice! I really like this interpretation, I think it's spot on. Kind of what I was getting at here, I was just having trouble putting it all together. Great song anyway, very relatable, especially with what I think it means now.
Beautiful video. It really adds to the song's meaning.
He has been with a woman so long that having sex with her is basically masturbation. They have become so familiar that the excitement is gone. They are captive in their cage (place that we call home). He feels like such a stereotypical example of a couple that he might as well be a zoo exhibit representing a monogamous pair.
They're comfortable with enmity like only long term partners can be, irritated by the very presence of the other one but still dependent on it. He longs for what they used to have, the love that is pure, delicious sin but admits that they were never very good at communicating.
He tells her that the spark is gone and that he wants out. He even refers to suicide as an option for escaping the relationship and seems to break up with his partner towards the end of the song.
However, the last turn of the song rings nostalgic. He calls up his ex and tells her that he will always love her and that the loss of intimacy is hard (it's cold in space).
When he says "I'll always be a lover in captivity" he might mean that part of him will always be with her.
If you want to take a broader view, he might be referring to his love/hate relationship with intimacy and monogamy. That the trade off between the warmth of a real and long relationship will always be juxtaposed with the tedium of consistency.
P.S. On a personal note, I recommend that he finds a woman he likes and gets creative. That way he can have a little bit of sin and some warmth to go with it.
Nice! I really like this interpretation, I think it's spot on. Kind of what I was getting at here, I was just having trouble putting it all together. Great song anyway, very relatable, especially with what I think it means now.
Nice! I really like this interpretation, I think it's spot on. Kind of what I was getting at here, I was just having trouble putting it all together. Great song anyway, very relatable, especially with what I think it means now.