Clarity (feat. Foxes)

To me it means :

Even though we have so many problems in our relationship, I'm in love with you, and I need you with me always. We keep pushing each other away and telling each other it'll never work out, but if that's so true, then why do we keep coming back to each other? Because we need each other. Because I need you, even though I wish I didn't. Whenever I'm with you, I feel complete. I feel better, and no matter how hard I try, I can't get over you.

This song is my relationship in 4 minutes and 31 seconds.

This song is about loving someone who doesn't love you back. Nothing about abusive relationships. The song is in first person and is written by a male. It's told by a girl who loves someone she can't be with and is fighting these feelings so she can do the right thing but they tip and she can't control them so she has to start from scratch.

If Our Love Is Tragedy Why Are You My Remedy If Our Love Is Insanity Why Are You My Clarity

What it's saying is that if our love isn't meant to be then why do you make me feel good. If our love is a crazy idea then why do I understand clearly.

this song relates to me exactly. it has been almost 2-3 years since i have been with this person and i thought i was completly over him...but after seeing him i realize that i am not. no matter how hard we try to be friends it will never work out on my part, i will always have feelings for him. its weird because i never thought i would fall for him like this but for some odd reason the feeling is still hanging on.

This reminds me of the feeling when my dear friend and I were in Disneyland. It was a school trip, and I somehow fell very ill when we arrived and was ushered into the hospital. Unfortunately, she couldn't come with me because she wasn't 18...

Strange. I felt immense pain that I have never experienced before, and yet my vitals were completely normal. After 7 hours, I went back to Disneyland and searched everywhere for her.

I'll never forget the fleeting emotions that spontaneously emerged when we embraced after that separation. It was an epiphany for both us. We realized how just how dearly we hold one another in our hearts...

I think that was the closest feeling of love that I've got, for it was something that I never tried yearning for. That made me realize that sharing this moment of love is something that is pretty necessary. She was my clarity. And I can never get her off my mind since that very day. Falling for another woman would mean betrayal to my own wishes and my own pride..

Despite that, we both knew that we were in dangerous territory now, because if something happened, it would end tragically. Especially with the fact that I was moving to another city for University.

To me, our love was tragedy because it was something that couldn't be arranged. It was weird to have Fate or God play His prank on us to realize this only to be severed away by destiny.

But thanks to His intervention or whatever the heck it's called and thanks to her... I've realized how important sharing love and affection is. I'll never forget that feeling that I've had.

Our love somehow ended 'tragically' then. But I am thankful to her for making me realize just how important that feeling was.

Everybody interprets songs to how they are feeling.

The meaning to me:

Two people have fallen in love, But for whatever reason their love is forbidden and can never be e.g already married.

So they try and fight the feeling...

But they cant, they keep getting drawn back together. They know that the end will not be good... either because it ends by being heartbroken because they cant have each other... or because it hurts other people.

It is very wrong... but it makes sense... it seems right

if our love is tragedy, why are you my remedy. if our love is insanity, why are you my clarity.

This song reminds me very much so of one of my best friends and I. I fell for her a long time ago and there has always been some part of me that never got over her. Every time I thought I have gotten over her, I end up traveling down memory lane and suddenly I'm falling for her all over again.

That is also what I think the song is all about. Not being able to be with someone that means so much to you.

It feels like a situation much the same as mine.

I fell in love with a guy that I tried so hard not to love. I was with that guy, family issues interfered and we couldn't be together. That was 5 years ago. Since then we are both married to other people, but we can't stay away from each other. It's awful, it can't end well, but I can't escape him...my soul won't let me, neither will his.

"...where the past comes back to life" - When we are together, it's like we are never apart. "...I drowned in you again." I think i'm over it, then he msg me we meet up and I'm completely consumed by him. "You are a piece of me I wish I didn't need" - I haven't gone a day in five years without missing him, and wanting him.

.... Anyways. It speaks to me.

This song to me describes an unlikely relationship/love blooming despite all odds

I think this song might be about taking crystal meth...

High dive into frozen waves Where the past comes back to life -

When addicted to methamphetamine and you try to come clean you constantly think about 'pleasurable' past experiences, often while being high on the drug. Frozen waves = frozen water = ice

Fight fear for the selfish pain It was worth it every time-

When you take it you know its bad, deep down your terrified from things you've heard about it and seen in the media, but after you take it everything feels alright.

Hold still right before we crash Cause we both know how this ends

You know whats going to happen, you know what the comedown will be like

Our clock ticks till it breaks your glass And I drown in you again

Time moves differently when your high on amphetamine, breaking glass could refer to breaking up the crystals, or because pipes are made of glass. Drown in you could refer to passing out after coming down/after the high is over or mellowing in the intense pleasure of being high

Cause you are the piece of me I wish I didn't need Chasing relentlessly Still fight and I don't know why-

Ice addiction can become part of someones very personality, nobody wants to need something like that, your always looking to get on it however you can, you don't know why you don't just give up trying to fight it because you want it so much.

If our love is tragedy, why are you my remedy If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity-

The addiction is tragic, but getting back on makes it all feel better. Spending so much money and time and losing so much to the addiction is insane, but when your on it everything feels totally clear, your mind feels sharp as a razor and you feel in control

Walk on through a red parade And refuse to make amends It cuts deep through our ground And makes us forget all common sense Don't speak as I try to leave Cause we both know what we'll choose If you pull, then I'll push too deep And I'll fall right back to you-

Trying to come clean off the drug knowing its all but a lost cause

This interpretation of the song makes a lot of sense to me, knowing the effects of ice`. I would actually be very surprised if this song didn't wasn't a reference to addiction. Not to mention the film clip full of what appear to be exploding crystals, etc.

This song is about lovers not wanting to be apart.

"Hot dive into frozen waves where the past comes back to life"

Here we see that a relationship can be as large as the pacific. Though every relationship ends as the ocean ends with a wave. The frozen wave is an attempt to block the other person from entering. But the hot dive (jumping back in) breaks the wall of emotions. It brings the feelings back to the relationship that they previously had for each other.

"If I fear for the selfish pain, it was worth it every time Hold still right before we crash `cause we both know how this ends"

Though they know that the heartbreak will make it horrible. The time that they spend together is something that they both cherish and they keep going back for more of each other.

"A clock ticks 'till it breaks your glass and I drown in you again"

The glass represents the fragile heart that has started healing from the breakup. Once the wave/glass/wall is broken the person is drowned in the emotions of the relationship again.

"Cause you are the piece of me I wish I didn't need"

The couple have grown with each other and developed a co-dependency that they cannot live without each other. They both have a part of each others heart no matter how many times they separate.

"If our love is tragedy, why are you my remedy?"

Even though she knows that their love is going to end. Getting back together is the only remedy to cure her broken heart.

"If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity?"

When they are together she is able to see life clearly in all facets of her life. He brings resolve to her life.

"Walk on through a red parade and refuse to make amends."

They both walk through their with their heart and soul, refusing to take the blame in the failure of their relationship.

"It cuts deep through our ground and makes us forget all common sense"

When they get back together they forget all the pain that they caused and look forward to loving each other again.

"Don't speak as I try to leave 'cause we both know what we'll choose"

Even if she leaves she knows that she will fall back into his arms. In the video she leaves yet he is chasing her all the time. Though it seems that she wants him to find her because she chooses to leave via the desert.

"If you pull and I push too deep then I'll fall right back to you"

If he tries to pull her in, she will push deep into his heart and become mush.

"'Cause you are the piece of me I wish I didn't need Chasing relentlessly, still fight and I don't know why"

No matter how much they want to separate from each other they keep coming back to each other.

You can also see this on the video that they constantly collide coming back to each other. Not in human form, but in the form of cars, light-bulbs, drill-bit heads.
It's only about two people choosing what's best for them and their relationship. And in the final scene they end up back together!