Lyrics for Love to a Monster as interpreted by soCtra

Love to a Monster Lyrics
Lover, now that you've left me, I'm glad you're unlovely.
Becuase if you could take all the heat in your heart and just hang it from you,
I wouldn't be able to bear the way you cannot love me.
It's much easier of me make a monster out of you.

And so here I go, substituting the glow from your temples,
all our sighs and our trembles, and each last letter sent you
from the cheap little pen of this weak little man
- the one singing - out his jangling, ringing
and hopefully stinging attack upon you.

Yeah, so here I go, just exploding the hope we'll be speaking
some day, years from now, seeking friendship and understanding.
Yeah, I hope you get angry, and hurt, and have the hardest of landings.
And i hope your new man thinks of me when he sees what a number I did on you.

I grow tired of this song. Turn my eyes
to the blonde in the bleachers.
She's a lovely young creature.
I think she's seeking adventure.
I think she's ready to see that the world isn't so sweet or so tender.
I won't break her, just bend her, and make her into my new ringer for you.

I stay in the same comfy town, write the same old songs down, drive the same streets,
seek the same sense of dull peace, whisper the same sweet words to the chippies.
The same walk by the road and where the same muddy snow's finally leaving,

But i'll fight off the spring; I don't want lovely things,
I don't want the earth new.

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Way_AE
01-16-2007

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Ah. Another lyrically moving song from Okkervil River. They'll never run out.

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trippyapple
03-26-2007

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"i hope your new man thinks of me when he sees what a number i did on you"...

gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous

if their next album has songs like this it'll be even better than black sheep boy.

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isadore
04-27-2007

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What I love about this song is that it takes on a completely different meaning if you pay attention to the first verse:
"Lover, now that you've left me, I'm glad you're unlovely.
Becuase if you could take all the heat in your heart and just hang it from you,
I wouldn't be able to bear the way you cannot love me.
It's much easier of me make a monster out of you."

I always thought this song was about how horrible an ex-partener was, but the first verse says very poetically how if she wasn't so angry when they broke up, he would see that there was truth in the things she was saying. But because things ended in a huge argument/fight, he'll ignore the things she said and think of her as a horrible monster.

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cherrycoce
12-07-2007

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such a magnificent song

"I wouldn't be able to bear the way you cannot love me. It's much easier of me to make a monster out of you"

love it

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iamthescientist
03-23-2008

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"blonde in the bleachers" - joni mitchell reference!

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iiirdeyeheretik
09-29-2008

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Some of you are so terrible at analyzing poetry (ie the lyrics) it makes me wonder if you even LISTEN to the song.

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daytrotter
11-06-2008

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iiirdeyeheretik
why didn't you give us your pretentious meaning for this poetry if everyone else is so bad at analyzing it?

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jcphoenix
11-30-2008

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I kind of think the whole idea of the song is that it is being written from the viewpoint of the real monster - an abusive (perhaps not physically but emotionally) and obsessive boyfriend. The girl has gotten away and in the second half of the song, the boyfriend is zoning in on a new victim, a replacement for the girlfriend who left...

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safetybricks007
01-11-2009

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This song is about a relationship that ended poorly. She left him, and him, being "unable to bear" the fact that his feelings of love weren't returned, turned her into a "monster". So he would be able to deal better. He then begins to substitute all of the good that he remembers and treasure into a "stinging attack" upon her (by use of a song). But no matter how much he wants to stop being in love with her, he hopes that one day she will return seeking friendship and understanding, because he would rather have her as a friend than not in his life at all. But anyone who had been betrayed in such a way would surely not wish good upon the person who hurt them, hence "Yeah, I hope you get angry, and hurt, and have the hardest of landings.
And i hope your new man thinks of me when he sees what a number I did on you. "
Although he diverts his attention to the blonde, he knows that he will use this girl, hurt her (not badly: "won't break her, just bend her"), all because he's struggling to get over his monster. He doesn't want things to keep changing so he will fight off the spring, new things etc. He hopes time will just stop moving.
ehh. the end is iffy. But that's what I get from it.

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mikec
03-06-2009

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Few songs capture the simple resentment after a relationship's end as this song does. Will Sheff perfectly describes every frustration and emotion that goes into that traumatic times -- the possibility of becoming friends, hoping her new boyfriend won't work out, on one ending wanting to be the bigger man but still hoping she'll be "hurt and have the hardest of landings". He even plans to hurt others emotionally such as the ‘blonde in the bleacher’. He’s grown numb and jaded. But at the end of the day, he’s resigned to his own depression and loneliness – “I don’t want the earth new.”

I highly recommend “All My Little Words” by the Magnetic Fields if you like this song, it captures a similar sentiment.


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