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Leave me dreaming on the bed
See you right back here tomorrow
For the next round.
Keep this scene inside your head
As the bruises turn to yellow
The swelling goes down.
[Chorus]
And if you're ever around
In the city or the suburbs
Of this town
Be sure to come around
I'll be wallowing in sorrow
Wearing a frown
Like Pierrot the clown.
Saw you crashing around the bay
Never seen you act so shallow
Or look so brown.
Remember all the thing's you'd say
How your promises rang hollow
As you threw me into the ground.
[Chorus]
When I dream , I dream your lips
When I dream , I dream your kiss
When I dream , I dream your fists
Your fists, your fists.
Leave me bleeding on the bed
See you right back here tomorrow
For the next round.
Keep this scene inside your head
As the bruises turn to yellow
The swelling goes down.
[Chorus]
See you right back here tomorrow
For the next round.
Keep this scene inside your head
As the bruises turn to yellow
The swelling goes down.
[Chorus]
And if you're ever around
In the city or the suburbs
Of this town
Be sure to come around
I'll be wallowing in sorrow
Wearing a frown
Like Pierrot the clown.
Saw you crashing around the bay
Never seen you act so shallow
Or look so brown.
Remember all the thing's you'd say
How your promises rang hollow
As you threw me into the ground.
[Chorus]
When I dream , I dream your lips
When I dream , I dream your kiss
When I dream , I dream your fists
Your fists, your fists.
Leave me bleeding on the bed
See you right back here tomorrow
For the next round.
Keep this scene inside your head
As the bruises turn to yellow
The swelling goes down.
[Chorus]
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Trust me, I would know when it comes to BDSM...
"Leave me dreaming on the bed
See you right back here tomorrow
For the next round."
i.e. I'm dreaming of more than just kinky sex, but that's all I'm getting and I know you'll be back to do it all over again...
"Keep this scene inside your head
As the bruises turn to yellow
The swelling goes down."
i.e. when doing something BDSM it is referred to as 'a scene' between the two people (eg, a 'scene' where you dress up like a schoolgirl and i put a ball gag in your mouth and get the riding crop out)... The 'bruises turn to yellow' bit is because in BDSM black and blue is just like 'fisher price baby steps: my first beating' and the beating goes on till the bruises turn yellow and brown, and the welts rise up off the skin, so the whole bit translates as "remember the BDSM game we played, even after the bruises change colour and all the big bulging welts you beat on my ass go down."
"And if you're ever around
In the city or the suburbs
Of this town
Be sure to come around
I'll be wallowing in sorrow
Wearing a frown
Like Pierrot the clown."
i.e. I'll still keep doing this, any time you come calling, pretending that the suffering is all just fun and games (like the clown) while really I'm heartbroken on the inside...
"Remember all the thing's you'd say
How your promises rang hollow
As you threw me into the ground."
i.e. You talked me into it by feeding me lies, and then threw me around like a rag doll for rough sex.
"When I dream , I dream your lips
When I dream , I dream your kiss
When I dream , I dream your fists
Your fists, your fists."
i.e. the Pierrot archetype (probably Brian himself i'm guessing) is equating the BDSM stuff with love... 'fists' could either mean the BDSm breaking down into full violence ('outside of the sex game', because most BDSM practitioners don't punch in a scene), or could be a reference to fisting, which happens to the subby one A LOT...
"Leave me bleeding on the bed
See you right back here tomorrow
For the next round."
i.e. like the first bit again, only 'bleeding' this time either because of the BDSM stuff, or the actual violence (if it was punching and not fisting in the last bit)
"When I dream
I dream of your lips
When I dream
I dream of your kiss
When I dream
I dream of your fists"
They realize what they think is wrong but are to overcome with their feelings to leave, deep down they know they aren’t loved by their abuser, but will never admit it.
"When I dream
I dream of your lips
When I dream
I dream of your kiss
When I dream
I dream of your fists"
They realize what they think is wrong but are to overcome with their feelings to leave, deep down they know they aren’t loved by their abuser, but will never admit it.
The references to drugs makes it interesting as well. One or both of them seems to be using. The victim probably uses to numb the physical and emotional pain of the relationship, and the abuser probably uses it to fit in or 'unwind.' The abuser could even be the supplier to the victim.
I don't know; I guess that's not really a 'deep' opinion, but that's what I get from this song.
It can be about a person who is in a abusive relationship emotional or physical. For example, in a emotional state of abuse, it could be that he/she loves the other person, but the other person just wants sex,
"Leave me dreaming on the bed
see you right back here tommorow
for the next round."
and in the case of physical abuse
"When i dream, I dream of your lips
When i dream, I dream of your kiss
When i dream, I dream of your fists"
Where the word "fists" can be a metaphor for a strike of pain, or "fists" can be used in a physical term as well, either way supporting both forms.
Moving on to the next statement, he/she knows what the other person is doing is wrong, but they're too in love to care that it's wrong as he/she compares themselves to "Pierrot the clown" who was seen as a buffoon.
Next meaning: BDSM
"Keep this scene inside your head
as the bruises turn to yellow
the swelling goes down."
obviously can refer to BDSM, and once again the term "Like Pierrot the clown" can be refer to role play, as a clown is just an act.
and i'm too lazy to explain further on, but u get the point >>
He dreams of "fists": the person would rather fight with that person as opposed to being dead.
"Crashing around the bay..shallow...brown": i think this is about a body of water-like he's looking down in the harbor; and he's speaking to a spirit
When he dreams,the person's spirit floods his brain.
I think the clown is symbolic for a paradox;a person that should be happy,but isn't.
and the "if you're ever around" part as the presence of the persons memory being manifested in his tears
eh, i don't know...
There's no doubt in my mind that it's actually a reference to the clown that 'marquicerise' first posted about, but I like to think that this ties in nicely.
I was searching for absinthe posters online and came across, allposters.com/-sp/… .
For instance:
"Leave me dreaming on the bed
see you right back here tommorow
for the next round."
In reference to two things: a person and the drink.
"And if you're ever around
in the city or the suburbs
of this town
be sure to come around
i'll be wallowing in sorrow
wearing a frown
like Pierrot the clown."
Sarcasm: if you come back I'll only be drunk and ruin things again.
"Wearing a frown" as in having imbibed too much alcohol. Clearly the clown in the image has a smile on his face, but it's satirical in the sense that the smile/frown are superficial and could go either way when "dreaming of their lips/kiss/fists".
Yeah, I think I've killed it.
Haha, great song, though.
a foolish clown in love with columbine
she leaves him for harlequinn
yeah.. a broken love story
i remeber my friend telling me the story of pierrot late one night
it made me cry
love the song though
fave placebo song part from th bitter end
:D