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"Don't lay a finger" I said but he held her with five
Kissed the crest of her lips
And put his hand on her thigh
"One million in a week or the girl's gonna go"
"I'd kill you in a second" He laughed "Yeah I know"
I won eight hundred thousand on a game show
But it's not enough to win her back
As my tears hit the floor he still said "No"
"Come on man give me some slack"
I looked at the case he said "I'll show you her blood"
I screamed down the phone line
"So is this the price of love?"
When I stare in your eyes I see the image of God
Well girl listen out for the phone call and pray for a flood
I called at a quarter past nine and said "I've done all I can"
He said "You win some you lose some I feel bad for you man"
He slammed down the phone and took his coat from the bed
She said "What happens now" "Well to your husband you're dead"
She said "I love you" and pleaded for her hero to stay
But knew deep inside that he'd planned it this way
"I gave him my heart now he's left it to die
And I know I can't go back"
He walked out the room shouted "See you around"
She said "Come on give me some slack"
He said "There's no hope but babe you can wait for that dove"
She screamed from the window
"So is this the price of love?"
So is this the price of love?
Kissed the crest of her lips
And put his hand on her thigh
"One million in a week or the girl's gonna go"
"I'd kill you in a second" He laughed "Yeah I know"
I won eight hundred thousand on a game show
But it's not enough to win her back
As my tears hit the floor he still said "No"
"Come on man give me some slack"
I looked at the case he said "I'll show you her blood"
I screamed down the phone line
"So is this the price of love?"
When I stare in your eyes I see the image of God
Well girl listen out for the phone call and pray for a flood
I called at a quarter past nine and said "I've done all I can"
He said "You win some you lose some I feel bad for you man"
He slammed down the phone and took his coat from the bed
She said "What happens now" "Well to your husband you're dead"
She said "I love you" and pleaded for her hero to stay
But knew deep inside that he'd planned it this way
"I gave him my heart now he's left it to die
And I know I can't go back"
He walked out the room shouted "See you around"
She said "Come on give me some slack"
He said "There's no hope but babe you can wait for that dove"
She screamed from the window
"So is this the price of love?"
So is this the price of love?
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"The Price of Love" as written by Charles Cave Harry Mcveigh
Lyrics © CHRYSALIS MUSIC GROUP
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.....a very dark and twisted movie of course.
So from what I can gather, at the start of the song the other man is asking for ransom money (1,000,000$ no less) in a week or he will kill the protagonists wife. It then tells us that he manages to win all but 200,000 dollars but the other man still won't let her go.
By the end of the week, he calls the other man and tells him "I've done all I can" and the man replies that "you win some you lose some" which presumably means that he's going to kill the wife. But so it turns out, after the other man hangs up the phone, the wife asks him what happens next and he tells her that to her husband she's dead. So we can only assume that they faked her kidnapping so that she could without risk spend the rest of her life with the man she is in love with but he leaves her. Shes knows he has planned it that way so that she is left without anyone.
So from what I can gather, at the start of the song the other man is asking for ransom money (1,000,000$ no less) in a week or he will kill the protagonists wife. It then tells us that he manages to win all but 200,000 dollars but the other man still won't let her go.
By the end of the week, he calls the other man and tells him "I've done all I can" and the man replies that "you win some you lose some" which presumably means that he's going to kill the wife. But so it turns out, after the other man hangs up the phone, the wife asks him what happens next and he tells her that to her husband she's dead. So we can only assume that they faked her kidnapping so that she could without risk spend the rest of her life with the man she is in love with but he leaves her. Shes knows he has planned it that way so that she is left without anyone.
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"Don't lay a finger" I said but he held her with five
Kissed the crest of her lips
And put his hand on her thigh
"One million in a week or a the girl's gonna go"
"I'd kill you in a second" He laughed, "Yeah, i know"
I won eight hundred thousand on a game show
But it's not enough to win her back
As my tears hit the floor he still said "Come on
Man give me some slack"
I looked at the case he said "I'll show you her
Blood"
I screamed down the phoneline
"So is this the price of love?"
When I stare in your eyes i see the image of god
Well girl listen out for the phonecall and pray
For a flood
I called a quarter past nine and said "I've don
All i can"
He said "You win some you lose some
I feel bad for you man"
He slammed down the phone and took his coat
From the bed
She said "What happens now" "Well to your
Husband you're dead"
She said "I love you" and pleaded for hero to
Stay
But knew deep inside that he'd planned it this way
"I gave him my heart now he's left it to die
and I know I can't go back"
He walked out the room shouted "see you
around"
She said "Come one give me some slack"
He said "There's no hope but babe you can wait for
that dove"
She screamed from the window
"So is this the price of love?"
So is this the price of love?"
*****
The formatting may seem weird, but in the booklet it's formatted to read like poetry.
but he held her with five
kissed the crest of her lips
and put his hand on her thigh"
this is saying how defensive the speaker is getting, and how he's trying to protect his wife. it also shows that there's and element of intimacy between the kidnapper and the kidnappee.
"one million in a week
or the girl is gonna go
I'd kill you in a second
he laughed yeah I know
I won eight hundred thousand on a game show
but it's not enough to win her back
as my tears hit the floor, he still said no
come on man give me some slack
I looked at the case, he said I'll show you her blood
I screamed down the phone line: so is this the price of love?"
the kidnapper is specifying his ransom, and the speaker does all he can to earn the money, resorting to a gameshow, but not winning the full amount. he's pretty desperate and has no other way to earn the rest of the money so hopes it will suffice. unfortunately, it will not. the fact that he'll show the speaker his wife's blood is a threat to kill her, saying he is unafraid to harm her.
"when I stare in your eyes I see the image of god
well girl listen out for the phonecall and pray for a flood
I called at a quarter past 9 and said I've done all I can
he said you win some you lose some I feel bad for you man"
calling the kidnapper "god" shows that the speaker see's him as too powerful. i think the flood may be a biblical reference, to noah's ark: he prays for a flood because it wipes out all bad people, and hopes the kidnapper almost gets washed away. this however is slightly ironic since he refers to the kidnapper as a god. having phoned the kidnapper without the full amount of money, he still refuses, implying that this is the end for the wife.
"he slammed down the phone, took his coat from the bed
she said what happens now, to your husband you're dead
she said I love you, and pleaded for a hero to save
you knew deep inside that he planned it this way"
the fact that he takes his coat without much of a reference to the girl shows that he is abandoning her. her confusion at the fact he is leaving without her is shown through the question. he doesn't really kill her and instead was simply using her for money. "to your husband your dead" - the fact it is to her husband shows that he is the only person who has to know, meaning that he was never going to kill her anyway, and she goes physically unharmed. she says that she loves her kidnapper, in hope that he'll stay and turn out to be a hero, but he still leaves.
"I gave him my heart now he's left it to die
and I know I can't go back
he walks out the room, shouted see you around
she begged, come on give me some slack
you said, there's no hope but babe you can wait for that dove
she screamed from the window, so is the price of love?"
i think that "my heart" is a reference to the speakers wife. the fact that he gave it away shows that he was not treating her properly, even though he really loved her & the left it to die part is pretty self explanatory, as he believes his wife is now dead. as the wife begs, there is an element of parallelism as she shouts the same thing as the speaker ("give me some slack"), which i think represents the fact that they really were in love. the dove in this case represents hope, and once again is a biblical reference to noah's ark. the fact she screams from the window shows that she is still alive but lonely, for she cannot go back to her husband as he will know it was all just a set up.
"when I stare in your eyes I see the image of god
well girl listen out for the phonecall and pray for a flood"
You could be right, but I'm quite sure this bit is interchange between the 'hostage' and the 'captor,' Seeing as the second line is aimed at a woman, and is possibly a response to the first line. They were words probably said off the phone line, seeing as it says the husband calls back at 9.
It could be that the wife sees her 'captor' as her saviour, and he tells her to "pray for a flood"in part because it is a biblical reference, but not a negative one. He means a 'flood' as in a ton of cash, the 'ransom.' This shows the fact that the woman's 'captor' doesn't take her affections all that seriously. Seeing as the entire song is about people being abandoned about the ones they love, this would fit.
"I gave him my heart now he's left it to die
and I know I can't go back
he walks out the room, shouted see you around
she begged, come on give me some slack
you said, there's no hope but babe you can wait for that dove
she screamed from the window, so is the price of love?"
Again, there's a high chance your deduction is better than mine, but again I'd say this is the wife speaking. This leaves the whole stanza to be quite straightforward. It's again more proof that he doesn't really love her back, and was only using her for money, harking back to the fact that she sees God in him, and rather jokingly, by saying "you said, there's no hope but babe you can wait for that dove."
Anyway, I might be wrong,
but that's what I got from the song.
That's the actual story, I'm pretty sure that's right but maybe it's a metaphor for how much we're willing to give for our lovers but not necessarily in terms of money i.e we risk getting our hearts broken and doing things we hate to keep them happy.
This is just my little guess, I really love this song XD And the band of course
but he held her with five
kissed the crest of her lips
and put his hand on her thigh"
this is saying how defensive the speaker is getting, and how he's trying to protect his wife. it also shows that there's and element of intimacy between the kidnapper and the kidnappee.
"one million in a week
or the girl is gonna go
I'd kill you in a second
he laughed yeah I know
I won eight hundred thousand on a game show
but it's not enough to win her back
as my tears hit the floor, he still said no
come on man give me some slack
I looked at the case, he said I'll show you her blood
I screamed down the phone line: so is this the price of love?"
the kidnapper is specifying his ransom, and the speaker does all he can to earn the money, resorting to a gameshow, but not winning the full amount. he's pretty desperate and has no other way to earn the rest of the money so hopes it will suffice. unfortunately, it will not. the fact that he'll show the speaker his wife's blood is a threat to kill her, saying he is unafraid to harm her.
"when I stare in your eyes I see the image of god
well girl listen out for the phonecall and pray for a flood
I called at a quarter past 9 and said I've done all I can
he said you win some you lose some I feel bad for you man"
calling the kidnapper "god" shows that the speaker see's him as too powerful. i think the flood may be a biblical reference, to noah's ark: he prays for a flood because it wipes out all bad people, and hopes the kidnapper almost gets washed away. this however is slightly ironic since he refers to the kidnapper as a god. having phoned the kidnapper without the full amount of money, he still refuses, implying that this is the end for the wife.
"he slammed down the phone, took his coat from the bed
she said what happens now, to your husband you're dead
she said I love you, and pleaded for a hero to save
you knew deep inside that he planned it this way"
the fact that he takes his coat without much of a reference to the girl shows that he is abandoning her. her confusion at the fact he is leaving without her is shown through the question. he doesn't really kill her and instead was simply using her for money. "to your husband your dead" - the fact it is to her husband shows that he is the only person who has to know, meaning that he was never going to kill her anyway, and she goes physically unharmed. she says that she loves her kidnapper, in hope that he'll stay and turn out to be a hero, but he still leaves.
"I gave him my heart now he's left it to die
and I know I can't go back
he walks out the room, shouted see you around
she begged, come on give me some slack
you said, there's no hope but babe you can wait for that dove
she screamed from the window, so is the price of love?"
i think that "my heart" is a reference to the speakers wife. the fact that he gave it away shows that he was not treating her properly, even though he really loved her & the left it to die part is pretty self explanatory, as he believes his wife is now dead. as the wife begs, there is an element of parallelism as she shouts the same thing as the speaker ("give me some slack"), which i think represents the fact that they really were in love. the dove in this case represents hope, and once again is a biblical reference to noah's ark. the fact she screams from the window shows that she is still alive but lonely, for she cannot go back to her husband as he will know it was all just a set up.
It could also be "a hero" as a sort of planned Srockholm Syndrom thing, where she knows he's just going to walk out on her ("you secretly knew he planned it this way") but she still tris to make herself believe he loves her too, even though it's obvious he doesn't and she realizes this in the end.
Just throwing that possibility put there.