When I hear this song, the melancholy, aching strain, contrasted with the lyrics reflecting on the emptiness of a desperate physical connection... I think of it as social commentary on today's "hookup culture" where people seek love, get hurt somehow and also jaded by society's expectation ("give her my name"), despair of finding true love, and instead experience the "nirvana" of the present moment.
From Wikipedia, "nirvana" means "blown out" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana):
"In the Buddhist context nirvana refers to the imperturbable stillness of mind after the fires of desire, aversion, and delusion have been finally extinguished. In Hindu philosophy, it is the union with Brahman, the divine ground of existence, and the experience of blissful egolessness"
There is the heartbreaking detachment when having sex without committed desire, that has its own bittersweet beauty.
When I hear this song, the melancholy, aching strain, contrasted with the lyrics reflecting on the emptiness of a desperate physical connection... I think of it as social commentary on today's "hookup culture" where people seek love, get hurt somehow and also jaded by society's expectation ("give her my name"), despair of finding true love, and instead experience the "nirvana" of the present moment.
From Wikipedia, "nirvana" means "blown out" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana): "In the Buddhist context nirvana refers to the imperturbable stillness of mind after the fires of desire, aversion, and delusion have been finally extinguished. In Hindu philosophy, it is the union with Brahman, the divine ground of existence, and the experience of blissful egolessness"
There is the heartbreaking detachment when having sex without committed desire, that has its own bittersweet beauty.