Matt Berninger focuses on conveying certain feelings, emotions or moods with his lyrics; not worrying about coherence or meaning. I think this is what makes them so intriguing, genius, subjective, and hard to talk about. Still, I'll give it a shot...
Matt Berninger focuses on conveying certain feelings, emotions or moods with his lyrics; not worrying about coherence or meaning. I think this is what makes them so intriguing, genius, subjective, and hard to talk about. Still, I'll give it a shot...
The music and the lyrics harmoniously lead the song's mixed emotions that involve love, loss, longing, envy, desire, disappointment, acceptance, anger, etc. through a gentle roller-coaster ride in this song, in my opinion. While the chorus keeps bringing everything back to the same rational level, the verses in-between express the raw, strong emotions. [Also, Matt B. writes the lyrics...
The music and the lyrics harmoniously lead the song's mixed emotions that involve love, loss, longing, envy, desire, disappointment, acceptance, anger, etc. through a gentle roller-coaster ride in this song, in my opinion. While the chorus keeps bringing everything back to the same rational level, the verses in-between express the raw, strong emotions. [Also, Matt B. writes the lyrics FOR the music, getting cues from the music, so musical progression usually tells half the story.]
Those lines you ask about have a cathartic, confrontational and climactic power built upon the sentiment expressed in the previous lines: "You´re a million miles away; it doesn't matter anymore..." Shrugging and giving up, on a rational level, while burning on the inside...
So, he strikes back with: "Jennifer, you are not the only reason; my head is boiling and my hands are freezing," in order to claim his life back, diminishing whatever role she has had in causing the emotional turmoil. "You do not have that much power over me," is what he uses to complement "it doesn't matter anymore." Of course it does matter, but he takes a stand: Baby steps in getting that fireproof hard shell...
@thisnametaken Matt Berninger has obviously spent some time in Britain, he knows the vernacular. Go and boil your head, is a Scottish phrase that means "Fuck off!"
Also the juxtaposition of his head at boiling point of water, and his hands at the freezeing point of water is a metaphor of how it feels when you are mentally discombobulated, frustrated, perhaps angry, and your hands are so cold you can't do anything with them. So kind of having too many emotions all at once, and not knowing what to do, or knowing there is nothing you can do.
@thisnametaken Matt Berninger has obviously spent some time in Britain, he knows the vernacular. Go and boil your head, is a Scottish phrase that means "Fuck off!"
Also the juxtaposition of his head at boiling point of water, and his hands at the freezeing point of water is a metaphor of how it feels when you are mentally discombobulated, frustrated, perhaps angry, and your hands are so cold you can't do anything with them. So kind of having too many emotions all at once, and not knowing what to do, or knowing there is nothing you can do.
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In addition the lyric "you tell me you're waiting for someone who isn't so hopeless" That's also a British phrase meant to disparage someone He is so hopeless means he is incapable, he's clueless.
what's the meaning of- Jennifer, you are not the only reason my head is boiling and my hands are freezing....
Matt Berninger focuses on conveying certain feelings, emotions or moods with his lyrics; not worrying about coherence or meaning. I think this is what makes them so intriguing, genius, subjective, and hard to talk about. Still, I'll give it a shot...
Matt Berninger focuses on conveying certain feelings, emotions or moods with his lyrics; not worrying about coherence or meaning. I think this is what makes them so intriguing, genius, subjective, and hard to talk about. Still, I'll give it a shot...
The music and the lyrics harmoniously lead the song's mixed emotions that involve love, loss, longing, envy, desire, disappointment, acceptance, anger, etc. through a gentle roller-coaster ride in this song, in my opinion. While the chorus keeps bringing everything back to the same rational level, the verses in-between express the raw, strong emotions. [Also, Matt B. writes the lyrics...
The music and the lyrics harmoniously lead the song's mixed emotions that involve love, loss, longing, envy, desire, disappointment, acceptance, anger, etc. through a gentle roller-coaster ride in this song, in my opinion. While the chorus keeps bringing everything back to the same rational level, the verses in-between express the raw, strong emotions. [Also, Matt B. writes the lyrics FOR the music, getting cues from the music, so musical progression usually tells half the story.]
Those lines you ask about have a cathartic, confrontational and climactic power built upon the sentiment expressed in the previous lines: "You´re a million miles away; it doesn't matter anymore..." Shrugging and giving up, on a rational level, while burning on the inside...
So, he strikes back with: "Jennifer, you are not the only reason; my head is boiling and my hands are freezing," in order to claim his life back, diminishing whatever role she has had in causing the emotional turmoil. "You do not have that much power over me," is what he uses to complement "it doesn't matter anymore." Of course it does matter, but he takes a stand: Baby steps in getting that fireproof hard shell...
@thisnametaken Matt Berninger has obviously spent some time in Britain, he knows the vernacular. Go and boil your head, is a Scottish phrase that means "Fuck off!" Also the juxtaposition of his head at boiling point of water, and his hands at the freezeing point of water is a metaphor of how it feels when you are mentally discombobulated, frustrated, perhaps angry, and your hands are so cold you can't do anything with them. So kind of having too many emotions all at once, and not knowing what to do, or knowing there is nothing you can do.
@thisnametaken Matt Berninger has obviously spent some time in Britain, he knows the vernacular. Go and boil your head, is a Scottish phrase that means "Fuck off!" Also the juxtaposition of his head at boiling point of water, and his hands at the freezeing point of water is a metaphor of how it feels when you are mentally discombobulated, frustrated, perhaps angry, and your hands are so cold you can't do anything with them. So kind of having too many emotions all at once, and not knowing what to do, or knowing there is nothing you can do.
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In addition the lyric "you tell me you're waiting for someone who isn't so hopeless" That's also a British phrase meant to disparage someone He is so hopeless means he is incapable, he's clueless.