I've heard so many different interpretations and meanings of this song but every time I hear this song I can't help but cry. I feel like this is a song he wrote about an abortion of one of his past lovers he got pregnant and how she had an abortion and the whole song and the lyrics are kind of a relay between the pregnant girl and the unborn child.
I see it as how once he found out that he had impregnated this girl he frightened himself at the sheer thought and fled- "I caught a plane in the middle of the night"
and the references after almost every single verse "don't you mind?", I took in a way where he was looking at himself and asking how could he be so stupid and selfish at this time when she was actually experiencing it first hand.
"I nearly killed somebody, don't you mind, don't you mind?" Kind of registers with me as if after she had the abortion he tries to contact her and speak with her about it but she's kind too traumatised to even be near him and I saw it as a cry for help to her to speak to him but she's so hurt by him that she shuts him out completely.
"I gave you something you can never give back"- referring to the child
"You've seen your face like a heart attack"- meaning they've both looked in the mirror and not recognised themselves through what they've become and just had a full on breakdown from everything they're going through.
"I was late, but I arrived" Now, I took this two ways.
meaning that maybe she wanted him to be there when she got it done but he was too frightened to go near her for a fear that he might hurt her even more.
coming back after fleeing out of fear ((first line))
"Sorry but I'd rather be getting high than watching my family die"- talking as an explanation for why he was late ^^
"Exaggerate, and you and I"- Meaning the child, being unborn but such a big deal and impact on their lives, her and him.
"I think I did something terrible to your body"- getting her pregnant
Now I think is where he turns in the song and is talking to the unborn child:::
"I put your mother through hell," from the pregnancy and stress and drugs and her getting caught up and having to deal with everything he put her through, hell.
"I hurt your brother as well" OK THIS GOT ME, I started thinking maybe it wasn't the FIRST time he had got a girl pregnant or that exact same girl for example. Its like he's saying sorry for being such a fuckup and doing this again to yet another girl creating another baby.
"Oh I was thinking about killing myself"- I saw this in a few aspects also;;
He's thinking future wise, about if he had the child, "would it be just like me?" and how he would see himself in them everyday- seeing himself as the child and considering the abortion.
He's too overwhelmed and upset that above all of his mess ups in life he had done something so stupid as to get a girl pregnant yet AGAIN ((see reasons for above^^)) that he just wants to make sure he won't do it again and he wants to stop himself from messing things up even more in his life and he just wants to end it (his life).
maybe he wants to just escape and be with the child in a happy place away from all of him problems in his life.
the next line "I love you" gets me every time as you can hear how sincere he is and almost full of apologies in those three words as if he's trying to say "Im sorry for ending you before you even started but i love you and its not safe for you to be in my presence, you were a beautiful mistake and I love you beyond words" its almost like perhaps he wanted to keep the child but knew as a fact he wasn't fit to ever hold her like she deserved.
And then the last verse just pretty much punches you right in the guts again with the most powerful lines in the whole song.
That's my interpretation of 'Me' By The 1975 and I think I might go cry now.
I've heard so many different interpretations and meanings of this song but every time I hear this song I can't help but cry. I feel like this is a song he wrote about an abortion of one of his past lovers he got pregnant and how she had an abortion and the whole song and the lyrics are kind of a relay between the pregnant girl and the unborn child.
I see it as how once he found out that he had impregnated this girl he frightened himself at the sheer thought and fled- "I caught a plane in the middle of the night"
and the references after almost every single verse "don't you mind?", I took in a way where he was looking at himself and asking how could he be so stupid and selfish at this time when she was actually experiencing it first hand.
"I nearly killed somebody, don't you mind, don't you mind?" Kind of registers with me as if after she had the abortion he tries to contact her and speak with her about it but she's kind too traumatised to even be near him and I saw it as a cry for help to her to speak to him but she's so hurt by him that she shuts him out completely.
"I gave you something you can never give back"- referring to the child
"You've seen your face like a heart attack"- meaning they've both looked in the mirror and not recognised themselves through what they've become and just had a full on breakdown from everything they're going through.
"I was late, but I arrived" Now, I took this two ways.
"Sorry but I'd rather be getting high than watching my family die"- talking as an explanation for why he was late ^^
"Exaggerate, and you and I"- Meaning the child, being unborn but such a big deal and impact on their lives, her and him.
"I think I did something terrible to your body"- getting her pregnant
Now I think is where he turns in the song and is talking to the unborn child:::
"I put your mother through hell," from the pregnancy and stress and drugs and her getting caught up and having to deal with everything he put her through, hell.
"I hurt your brother as well" OK THIS GOT ME, I started thinking maybe it wasn't the FIRST time he had got a girl pregnant or that exact same girl for example. Its like he's saying sorry for being such a fuckup and doing this again to yet another girl creating another baby.
"Oh I was thinking about killing myself"- I saw this in a few aspects also;;
the next line "I love you" gets me every time as you can hear how sincere he is and almost full of apologies in those three words as if he's trying to say "Im sorry for ending you before you even started but i love you and its not safe for you to be in my presence, you were a beautiful mistake and I love you beyond words" its almost like perhaps he wanted to keep the child but knew as a fact he wasn't fit to ever hold her like she deserved.
And then the last verse just pretty much punches you right in the guts again with the most powerful lines in the whole song.
That's my interpretation of 'Me' By The 1975 and I think I might go cry now.
@mackenziee I love this
@mackenziee I love this