Liability Lyrics

Lyric discussion by fra281139 

Cover art for Liability lyrics by Lorde

She's talking about a guy, who was attracted to her, they had fun. She opened up, showed vulnerability, wanted commitment, had a little bit of baggage so he bolted and it ended. Simple. She writes great lyrics...so insightful for a young person.

Song Meaning

@fra281139 Really? I interpreted something else entirely lol. Wow. Crazy how that works, huh? I see a girl that is fucked up. Someone that always messes things up - somehow, someway, she's a liability. She lies. She cheats. She does everything she possibly can do to always self-sabotage anything good in her life. At first people really like that she is wild and crazy, but after awhile they simply get sick of her antics.

"Says he made the big mistake of dancing in my storm"

Storm = her messy mess of a life and her personality.

She has a...

My Interpretation

@askingtoomuch, I can't see that here. I don't think Lorde is the type of character who would run around cheating on her partner, and the "liability" comes from the fact that emotionally, perhaps, she was a burden. Her feelings were intense, and her intensity was driving love away. She's always claimed to have an introverted person, an observer of society, not really a participant...a wallflower. She said in a 60 Minutes interview that while the song was written about her fame being too much of a responsibility, she felt most people could relate to feeling a little bit too much...

@fra281139 lol.

A) I didn't realize a singers songs HAD to be about their real life sarcasm

B) I looked up your "interpretation" and it was literally what Lorde said in an interview. So uhm, how about you don't copy her version and come up with your own.

lol. What a dork. And then you shoot mine down? At least it was original and I didn't copy someone else's idea. Hahaha

My Opinion