| Sara Bareilles – Morningside Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think that both of the first two comments are somewhat right. It seems like it is a person that she's known for a while, but she is afraid to trust herself with him. I think that her 'morningside' is the side of her that gives in to him (think the 'morning after' when you're lounging around and cuddling). He really 'gets to her' at those moments when she lets herself go. But I do think this is a person that comes in and out of her life. "I could try to forget what you do to me when I let you get through to me but then you do it over again." I commiserate because I have someone who always comes back just when I've gotten him out of my thoughts. |
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| Damien Rice – 9 Crimes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I have a slightly different interpretation of this song. I related it to the current “relationship” I’m in—and I say that with slight sarcasm because it’s quite complicated. It started out as a casual thing, and dragged on so long that it formed attachments. He doesn’t want to commit officially—doesn’t trust himself and doesn’t want to end up hurting me—but we still are quite loving and intimate, because I’ve developed trust for him because he hasn’t hurt me yet. I don’t know what I’m hanging on to—part of me just wants him to cut the final ties and leave, but him staying (or him coming around still) is allowing me to let him stay in my heart. I likened Damien’s lines of this song to him being tempted to go home with another girl from one of the bar that we hang out in. The girl’s lines are like me saying, just go! I can’t bring myself to make you go, so just go! And in them constantly asking each other if it’s alright, I see the way that we are constantly going back and forth about our “relationship” and its definitions. Like we both know what we need to do—break it off—but we can’t bring ourselves to do it because something makes us stay. I almost envisioned my own little video—me in one bar and him in another—with me thinking of him and not wanting to, and him considering “cheating” and not sure if it’s the right time to break it off. “Leave me out with the waste This is not what I do” [kind of like me saying, just leave. I don’t do this sort of casual thing. I can’t bring myself to make you leave.] “It’s the wrong kind of place to be thinking of you It’s the wrong time for somebody new It’s a small crime and I’ve got no excuse. Is that alright?” [me thinking of him in a bar where everything reminds me of him—I don’t want to be thinking of him but I don’t think I’m ready for someone new. So I ask him, is that alright that I’m still thinking of you?] “Leave me out with the waste This is not what I do” It’s the wrong kind of place to be cheating on you It’s the wrong time, she’s pulling me through. It’s a small crime and I’ve got no excuse. Is that alright? [him cheating on me (which he feels is unlike him, because he purposely said he didn’t want to hurt me and he feels too much for me to hurt me) in a bar where he could be caught by mutual friends, but he’s letting this other girl do all the work, “pulling him through,” but he’s still being unfaithful nonetheless. He feels guilty because he’s started to care about me, and he’s asking me, is that alright that I’m with another girl, is that alright that I want to be with you, too?] “If I give my gun away when it’s loaded Is that alright, yeah? If you don’t shoot it, How am I supposed to hold it?” [me, asking him if he doesn’t break it off, how am I supposed to? Basically saying, I need you to leave me.] [him, saying, I need you to make me stay or make me leave because I feel too much.] Then I take the final “no” as meaning, no, we can’t continue doing this anymore and we both realize we need to be completely in or completely out of the “relationship.” The gun metaphor for me is so intense because it takes on different meanings for him and I. For me, it’s saying, I’m giving you a loaded gun, you can either pull the trigger and hurt me or disengage it and save me. For him, he’s saying his gun is loaded (he has feelings for me and he is out being reckless with it (and reckless with my heart) on purpose so I will finally pull the trigger and make him leave. |
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