To me this feels like a satire of the conventional love song where everything is praiseworthy and perfect. This is a song about the realities of love.
There are the positive bits: "you're the beauty in my world", "it's you that I adore", "a mother to my child..." etc
Then there are the more negative elements. Couples fight: "you're the murder in my world", "in you I crash cars". The possessiveness: the insistence that "we must never be apart", "you'll always be my whore". And the fact that couples can have unrealistic expectations of each other: "I'll pull your crooked teeth, you'll be perfect just like me"
Then there are the sexual aspects which seem to me to have both positive and negative elements: "in you I feel so hungry/taste God" indicates sexual contentment. "In you I feel so dirty" is ambiguous - as with "whore", it could be taken cheekily or have more negative connotations. I wonder if the lyrics are intentionally ambiguous to highlight the different faces of love which can be present at the same time in relationships and are often difficult to read.
I think the song is acknowledging that love isn't the picture-perfect force of the conventional love-song. It can be beautiful but it encompasses elements that can be troubling. I don't think it's necessary saying any of this is wrong, it's just about acknowledging the realities of love instead of painting over them. Or it could just be a load of words that sound good together!
To me this feels like a satire of the conventional love song where everything is praiseworthy and perfect. This is a song about the realities of love.
There are the positive bits: "you're the beauty in my world", "it's you that I adore", "a mother to my child..." etc
Then there are the more negative elements. Couples fight: "you're the murder in my world", "in you I crash cars". The possessiveness: the insistence that "we must never be apart", "you'll always be my whore". And the fact that couples can have unrealistic expectations of each other: "I'll pull your crooked teeth, you'll be perfect just like me"
Then there are the sexual aspects which seem to me to have both positive and negative elements: "in you I feel so hungry/taste God" indicates sexual contentment. "In you I feel so dirty" is ambiguous - as with "whore", it could be taken cheekily or have more negative connotations. I wonder if the lyrics are intentionally ambiguous to highlight the different faces of love which can be present at the same time in relationships and are often difficult to read.
I think the song is acknowledging that love isn't the picture-perfect force of the conventional love-song. It can be beautiful but it encompasses elements that can be troubling. I don't think it's necessary saying any of this is wrong, it's just about acknowledging the realities of love instead of painting over them. Or it could just be a load of words that sound good together!