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Collecting hearts
Another love is another place to stay
Another face
We close our eyes and feel our way
A new fit
You're Positive but they don't need to know
Another boy another girl another place to go
It feels like sleep
It feels like being born
Return to soil
Return to frailer form
Another love is another place to stay
Another face
We close our eyes and feel our way
A new fit
You're Positive but they don't need to know
Another boy another girl another place to go
It feels like sleep
It feels like being born
Return to soil
Return to frailer form
Lyrics submitted by studiokill
Track duration: 04:45
"Intimate" as written by Ethan Kath, Alice Glass
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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i have not asked Alice and I am only guessing at what I am about to say next, but I wish to do so nonetheless; I believe the reason this song is impossible to hear when performed live; the reason it is either vocoded into an unintelligible state or the mic is turned down to inaudible levels is very much tied in with the meaning of this song - as it stands alone lyrically and in the sense of its meaning to her. Very much in the way the subject of the song wishes to RETAIN his subjectivity in the face of inevitable death, his story is one that must be discovered, not heard simply by exposure to it. Alice once said at a live concert before playing this something like "now, this is a real fucking song" - and this is precisely why, possibly, it is one that must be sought out in order to witness its written content. There are others that are similar in that extent, but none as much as "Intimate" - one must get intimate with the writing itself, and that process may bring tears, revulsion, or appreciation but I encourage anyone who tells me they like Crystal Castles to get on here and read the lyrics to EVERY SONG. So many people see the band as a supreme act of electronics - machines making sounds then distorted and taken to the max, and thus they dance... they dance, dance, dance. I believe that if half of them knew what these songs contained lyrically/meant (I am not sure what they mean exactly to Alice, and since she wrote them, I can only go on my experience, but they speak volumes to me), they would run for the exit. Thus, brilliance.
PS - I was so stoked to see Alice at a downtown lounge in NYC recently, just as it was closing - a great gal with a strong strong presence (yet not intimidating); full of energy; I hope one day I will have the chance to discuss the profound things she has written with her rather than simply cheers and get fucked up... but alas, my perspective and voice come from that very fucked up place so who am I to criticize?
The narrator shows that the person doesn't have a plan, rather they are walking blind and stumbling through life: 'we close our eyes and feel our way'
'A new fit' means the new sexual relationship they have found.
This person is HIV positive but doesn't tell their partners about it. This might be because they fear another night out in the cold, as 'another boy another girl' means 'another place to go'.
They die: 'it feels like sleep', 'it feels like being born'. And they 'return to [the] soil' as a continuity of energy transference.
'Return to frailer form' means that when our bodies degrade and become dust, we become a 'frailer form'. made from the same materials and elements, but in a different arrangment.
Alice Glass once said 'everything is dust'.
Inherently sad and meaningful, these lyrics struck me as a possible reflection on homeless life from the narrator's teenage years.
I reckon its about someone (probably male) who sleeps around or jumps from relationship to relationship or maybe even a sells themselves for sex. they are HIV Positive and giving everyone who they are intimate with the disease. then they die and are explaining what that is like. possibly to their ex lovers.
collecting hearts
another love is another place to stay
another face
we close our eyes and feel our way
a new fit
you're Positive but they don't need to know
another boy another girl another place to go
it feels like sleep
it feels like being born
return to soil
return to frailer form
Very sexy. But I wouldn't expect anything less from Alice and Ethan.