Melissa Etheridge – Come To My Window

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  General Comment:I guess it could be a song about addiction but has Melissa Etheridge ever dealt with Drug addiction? She's a supporter of medicinal marijuana but that seems to have come up when she got cancer. Other than that I had been under the impression for the last two years that it was her "coming out" song where she expresses her struggles in lesbian romance.
  
  Anyways, until maybe three years ago I honestly did not even know that Melissa Etheridge was a lesbian (super conservative parents, sheltered life, etc. etc.) but I had heard this song and to me it is and always has been about forbidden love. Apparently she claims that it's not but the verse "I don't care what they think. I don't care what they say. What do they know about this love anyway?" Always struck me as she was in love with someone that was frowned upon. This does not necessarily mean a lesbian relationship (though in this scenario with Melissa Etheridge I suppose that is the case) or a male-male relationship but any relationship that may be considered taboo (Depending on who's watching and where in the country mixed race, mixed economic background, I think there are still places where you can find families that are feuding with children in Romeo and Juliet type scenarios, etc).

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    I get it now I think. It's not about love or drug addiction. It's about feeling trapped. She's stuck inside this cage (symbolic of how she had to suppress her lesbian stature from the media and outside world) and "the come to my window" line is her hope that someone comes to keep her company not necessarily love but just someone she can open up to so she doesn't feel so alone. "Nothing fills the blackness that has seeped inside my chest" this represents the doubt and loneliness she feels. She wants to come out but society's perspective of her sexuality has made her question herself and doubt if she should and she feels lonely for reasons already stated. "Promises that I can't keep" Probably relationships she's had in the past where she just hasn't been able to fulfill something that was necessary in the relationship for it to work. Probably a lesbian relationship where not coming out into the open destroyed the bond between them.

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  General Comment:When i first listened to this song i felt a touching experience of not only joy from my heart but from my cock. This song made me open up my eyes to indirect messages towards sex and made me feel open to many ideas. It inspired me to right a song called "Long and Hard" where i used her metaphorical strageties such as her sex metaphors towards writing this song to success. but overall the sex messasge in this song is not only deep but hot, and i have hardcore sex quite frequently to this song,mostly every night, it has almost become my anthem now to sex and my life.

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    LOL. You are so full of sh*t, but thanx for the laugh. It's truly the best one today. I have to change my pants from peeing...

    Flag TurnMeOnon November 09, 2011  

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    Dude you think this is funny...this is my honest opinion of the song...

    Flag cumtomywindowon November 09, 2011  

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    My feelings are mutual.

    Flag sickflowon November 09, 2011  
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  General Comment:i was first introduced to this song by south park, in an episode where cartman's mother is messing around with a house-mover. now i what i can say is that those guys really spoiled this song for me. it's such a beautiful and powerful song, love it.

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  General Comment:To me, this song has nothing to do with love. It is totally about addiction and trying to break away. Read the words again and think of heroin addiction
  
  "I would stand inside my hell and hold the hand of death. You don't know how far i'd go just to ease this precious ache. You don't know how much i'd give or how much I can take. Keeping my eyes open, I cannot afford to sleep, Nothing fills the blackness That has seeped into my chest I need you in my blood.
  
  

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  General Comment:Songs are interesting in how they can convey a completely different meaning than the author intended. Although I know this isn't the case, this could easily be a song about a deep spiritual longing and an acknowledgement of the fear of committing to such.

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  General Comment:Maybe this song wasn't written about love like some of you say, but just listening to it and reading the lyrics gives the impression that it's a love song. For some strange reason:p Looks pretty much like one.
  Anyways, adorable song.

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  General Comment:theres really no hidden meaning to this song.
  
  its prety obvious.
  
  she has fallen deeply in love with somebody that is really not accepted my some people.
  
  thats how i take the whole some to my window thing.
  
  crawl inside/ wait by the light of the moon
  is kinda like she has to kinda kepp this a secret.
  
  but then i dont care what they think/ i dont care what they say/ what do they abou this love anyway.
  is talking about the fact that she is involved in a lesbain relationship

  Flag long luv luston July 11, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:I love this song, it reminds me, how much I love my man.

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  General Comment:this song reminds me of a unrequited love in my own life. i love it.

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  General Comment:Powerful Anthem Song - Of Strength, that acknowledges all that really matters is our need for closeness and security with our loved one.

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