This song has got kind of an eerie feel to it - gotta give it to Disclosure and Sam Smith for creating such an excellent and well-crafted tune. I think that what's great about this song is they took the traditional love song idea of, "let's make this a serious, exclusive thing", but they've given it this kind of weird, paranoid, obsessive undercurrent. "Latch" as a word can mean the way it's used in this song, to be about latching up or tying the knot so to speak, but it usually has that much creepier, parasite connotation of "latching on to" someone or something.
So, in short, it's a love song that's about an unstable person wanting to lock down their partner so that they won't have to be alone anymore, and really hyper-fixating on that aspect of the relationship.
This song has got kind of an eerie feel to it - gotta give it to Disclosure and Sam Smith for creating such an excellent and well-crafted tune. I think that what's great about this song is they took the traditional love song idea of, "let's make this a serious, exclusive thing", but they've given it this kind of weird, paranoid, obsessive undercurrent. "Latch" as a word can mean the way it's used in this song, to be about latching up or tying the knot so to speak, but it usually has that much creepier, parasite connotation of "latching on to" someone or something.
So, in short, it's a love song that's about an unstable person wanting to lock down their partner so that they won't have to be alone anymore, and really hyper-fixating on that aspect of the relationship.