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I wanna hold the hand inside you
I wanna take the breath that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life, you go in shadow
You'll come upon and you'll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Close your eyes with what's not there
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
The strange light comes on slowly
A stranger's heart is out of home
You put your hands into your head
And your smiles cover your heart
I wanna take the breath that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life, you go in shadow
You'll come upon and you'll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Close your eyes with what's not there
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
The strange light comes on slowly
A stranger's heart is out of home
You put your hands into your head
And your smiles cover your heart
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I just ended a 1 1/2 year relationship with a man who I now suspect had a personality disorder - psychopath/sociopath (not violent but lacking empathy toward anyone, incapable of loving anyone but themselves, selfish addiction for self-gratification through sex and drugs, years and multitudes of extra-marital affairs ending in divorce - yet bearing no responsibility, countless jobs and losses, etc).
I was determined to reach him; I thought with enough love and kindness I could meet his true soul and possibly “help” him. I began to lose myself and dissolve into the vacuum of his dark insatiable appetite and ego. I struggled and went along with the illusion of a relationship, but it became clear his soul was not available for anyone. I think I realized this after observing him with his family and teenage children, his inability to truly love me and let me in, was nothing personal. He is just void of giving and this applied to everyone in his life. It is just how he was made. It was a painful lesson for me.
So for me, the song now has a therapeutic value to it. xo
The song has different meanings to different people. For most, it's a reminder of an era of alternative music that defined a generation post Seattle-grunge. Memories of teenage make out sessions, slow dances, and romantic courting. Some people take the lyrics as words coming from a shy wallflower type that is finally confessing their feelings to the object of his or her affection.
The lyrics are most widely interpreted as a bittersweet story of falling in love with someone that is slightly damaged and incapable of living up to expectations. Hope Sandoval hauntingly sings of trying to connect with her partner on both an emotional and physical level; until, she begins to realize that this person can't give back. They aren't quite positioned where they need to be in life. You can hear the disappointment and heartbreak in the way she sings her lyrics.
She has in many ways given herself to whomever she sings to. They have become everything to her and she's lost herself in the process. She's faded into him and has discovered that she's slightly damaged as a result.
The verse ``I think it's strange you never knew'' seems to suggest that this person hasn't even noticed Hope's heartache or her true feelings because their soul is damaged, their world may be dark, and they're self-centered and lacking a certain depth. It's as if this person fails to realize that the couple aren't the same two people they once were. He never noticed that she's morphed into something to appease him rather than something true to herself. (musicbanter.com)
""COMB ANOTHER JUJUBE"", thumb thru face, 5 or 6 times I swear. Than Hopes drummer said he had 1 Jujube left, slid thumb under Hopes face but this time only half way, he made a face and pulled out. There was Hope....big squishey lump half way down her cheek, IN her skin not udner it. She blushes hard then RUNS off stage, drummer runs after her with twezers?
In papers next day: MAZZY STAR SINGER WALKS OFF STAGE, thats it. I ask my friend who was 5 rows back, she says nothing happen that day, nothing with Jujubes I mean. But I was in the 1st row, I know Hopes secret and maybe Im the only one :X