Ed Harcourt – Rain On The Pretty Ones

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  My Interpretation:I think it's about the tragedies of life, contradictions, ambiguity, loss, fear, death. When he sings: Rain on the pretty ones, you leave no footprints in the dust. In a way it's about these "pretty" and "perfect" people who haven't experienced struggle and who haven't "lived" truly and fully. Life is not only about happiness and perfect shiny facades, it's also about failure, sadness, loss, fear... whitout experiencing hardship you can't really say that you have lived.
  
  The title: "Rain on the pretty ones", to me, says: Well, since you are hollow and haven't been through any hardships in life, you don't really matter, you're not really human, soo rain on the pretty ones, rain on the perfect and happy people that are not aware of the true nature of life.
  
  or something.... I don't know

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    Fascinating, but wrong. Not one human has not been through loss, such as the death of a parent; friend; schoolmate; or the loss of an important relationships; reputation; career; etc. Not one has not held insecurities and fears. Not one has not felt doubt; sadness; anger; frustration; etc. There are NO shiny people. There are just fallible human beings who often hide their feelings from the world and only appear "pretty." It's arrogant to think that one person has more pain in his/her life than another. NOBODY knows what goes on behind closed doors...and big fascades.

    Flag JoyDivisionFan1on May 21, 2012  

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    What is wrong? My opinion/interpretation? I'm not stating that "pretty/happy" people haven't experienced pain. That's not the point. The point is that even though two people experience the exact same thing, they walk away from it with different outlooks. And of course there are "shiny" people in this world. People who have been served all their life, who have not really experienced that much expect from all that invovlves their own little bubble.

    Flag Freyiaon January 11, 2013  
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  General Comment:To me, the song feels like a break-up. The narrator has just been dumped and screams out to the world how he was betrayed. "I'm the hunter who's killed by his dog" says it all. His loyal friend turned agaist it, and towards the end he realizes that he's the one to blame. "I'm the liar who gets what he gives"

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  General Comment:I guess to me, this song is about not making assumptions, that when you least expect someone to be a certain way they are for example,"cartoon that makes you feel sad." You wouldn't expect these things to happen or for people to be this way but thats just they way they are, or we are sometimes. The pretty people are always praised, the good comics are always the ones that we laugh at but sometimes dont make a point. Just like the "pretty people" may seem pretty but they don't have anymore than that, they don't leave anything that makes you thing, just a pretty face, that isn't realistic that isn't living. I dont know thats what I got from this song, heck Im only 15 aha

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