You're Not Real, Girl Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ernst10016 

Cover art for You're Not Real, Girl lyrics by Swans

Well, it's how interpret it.

A guy who is loving a woman but that woman is not in love with him and playing him around.

You never close your eyes When I am near you""

Closing your eyes, like feeling weak, soft, being tender from the other presence.

You never say you know me When I am inside of you""

He feels it that the emotions are not mutual and she uses him as a tool, to valorise herself.

Girl you know it's only a feeling Girl you know you lie and you steal·""

He is ridiculizing his own feeling, to place them to how she values them. She responds to his love and steal his heart, but everything is made of lies.

When you take my trust in your body Nothing inside you is real"

Trust = Penis. Body = Vagina He is saying that his love "carnal love" is fake, everything is fake.

You are another person When you are alone"

That she never showed him who she is really is, that she never liked him and never had any consideration for him.

Nothing moves inside you No one holds you down"

He is mocking her blandness and he is getting hurt of her not being able to love him back.

Girl you know it's only a feeling You should never trust what you feel

He is saying that he has enough, that he is going to break through her fake love, that he is not acquired.

When you forget your body Nothing inside you is real

He is pitying her, pitying her fake love.

You're not real You're not real

He is saying that she is fake and everything she does is fake, that she is a blank page and he has enough.

If this track is any more intimate than not, i think my interpretation would be the good one, if not, then i am all wrong.

My Interpretation

@ernst10016 This song has two interpretation, a surface one about a man being denied love by a woman and deeper interpretation with a woman and her faith in God. More complex than i thought four years ago.

@ernst10016 This song has two interpretation, a surface one about a man being denied love by a woman and deeper interpretation with a woman and her faith in God. More complex than i thought four years ago.

@ernst10016 Seeing your earlier and later comments, I'm glad to see someone who recognizes the layers going on here. It took me a while too. Gira is a master of saying a lot with a few words. I definitely do not think it is an anti-religion song. I think it is on some level a commentary about a relationship gone wrong (which thematically links it to Greed/Holy Money material). But on another level, yeah I think it's either about faith or wavering faith, something spiritual. Also, the word choice of, "When you take my trust in your body" and "You...