"There was a period of time after tour when I was living in New York. All of my college friends were working their after-jobs, dragging themselves from coffee shop to coffee shop. So I never had people to hang out with. This lead me to having a lot of really crazy affairs with dudes I shouldn’t have been with. It’s about how, in New York, or in any city really, you can have a sexual experience with someone and then completely disappear. And there are no...
"There was a period of time after tour when I was living in New York. All of my college friends were working their after-jobs, dragging themselves from coffee shop to coffee shop. So I never had people to hang out with. This lead me to having a lot of really crazy affairs with dudes I shouldn’t have been with. It’s about how, in New York, or in any city really, you can have a sexual experience with someone and then completely disappear. And there are no consequences! You can have a whole separate life. You still have your friends, but they would never know that you had done this crazy thing the night before.
In the song, the protagonist, our hero, is a dude, but it’s really just me. I cast myself as a male lead. It’s the idea of searching for a human connection that just can’t be found by having sex with everyone."
Does anyone else think this song is about a womanizer being the wolf?
@LLCoolSand It kind of is actually. She wrote about it here: http://genius.com/5200415
@LLCoolSand It kind of is actually. She wrote about it here: http://genius.com/5200415
"There was a period of time after tour when I was living in New York. All of my college friends were working their after-jobs, dragging themselves from coffee shop to coffee shop. So I never had people to hang out with. This lead me to having a lot of really crazy affairs with dudes I shouldn’t have been with. It’s about how, in New York, or in any city really, you can have a sexual experience with someone and then completely disappear. And there are no...
"There was a period of time after tour when I was living in New York. All of my college friends were working their after-jobs, dragging themselves from coffee shop to coffee shop. So I never had people to hang out with. This lead me to having a lot of really crazy affairs with dudes I shouldn’t have been with. It’s about how, in New York, or in any city really, you can have a sexual experience with someone and then completely disappear. And there are no consequences! You can have a whole separate life. You still have your friends, but they would never know that you had done this crazy thing the night before.
In the song, the protagonist, our hero, is a dude, but it’s really just me. I cast myself as a male lead. It’s the idea of searching for a human connection that just can’t be found by having sex with everyone."