It's unfortunate that when we feel a storm
We can roll ourselves over 'cause we're uncomfortable
Oh well, the devil makes us sin
But we like it when we're spinning in his grip

Love is like a sin, my love,
For the ones that feel it the most
Look at her with her eyes like a flame
She will love you like a fly will never love you again

It's unfortunate that when we feel a storm
We can roll ourselves over when we're uncomfortable
Oh well, the devil makes us sin
But we like it when we're spinning in his grip

Love is like a sin, my love,
For the one that feels it the most
Look at her with a smile like a flame
She will love you like a fly will never love you again



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"Paradise Circus" as written by Robert Del Naja Hope Sandoval

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    Song Meaning:These are all brilliant interpretations, but to clarify the origin of the lyrics, you have to start by watching the (graphic!) music video. It revolves around the interview of an ex-erotic film actress, Georgina Spelvin, and the film she starred in, "The Devil In Miss Jones" in the 70's. If you research the plot of said film, you will see the stimulus behind the lyrics in Paradis Circus, especially the "She will love you like a fly will never love you again" line.

    Cheers!
    Flag Dreva13on April 10, 2013   Link
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    My Interpretation:This song can have many possible meanings. We must mainly focus on the following -
    The tittle - Paradise Circus
    'unfortunate that when we feel a storm'
    'we can roll ourselves over 'cause we're uncomfortable'
    'devil makes us sin'
    'we like it when we're spinning in his grip'
    'love is like a sin, my love'
    'the ones that feel it the most'
    'her with eyes like a flame'
    'love you like a fly, never love you again'

    As we can see the links between all of these are random, hence we must research carefully.

    Firstly, the tittle does not link to any part of the lyric, as it does not correspond to any feeling of love, nor the belief that love is a sin within the human nature. However, we can infer that the tittle is somewhat the setting of the song.

    The song begins with the lyric 'it's unfortunate that when we feel a storm, we can roll ourselves over 'cause we're uncomfortable'. The chosen lyric reveals that we are frightened by a storm, as we are naturally too scared of harsh sounds in our surroundings, linking the lyric to nature and our feelings. Through this, we can guess that the meaning is to with natural feelings and our environment, for instance, we can 'fall in love' with a stranger passing by, due to our natural instincts.

    'The devil makes us sin' portrays that love is a feeling, that crushes us, if we missus it - we look at it this way, if we follow it with the previous lyric. This twists the songs meaning, by interpreting love as a natural feeling we all missus.

    If we follow the past lyric meaning to 'We like it when we're spinning in his grip', we automatically twist the previous overall meaning, by developing an understanding for the words we, like, spinning and in his grip. We can infer that the meaning changes into something such as - we like the trembling moment of us misusing love, until we are broken. I believe this, as from the lyrics, the devil is practically controlling our feelings, from the phrase - spinning in his grip.

    'Look at her with a smile like a flame, she will love you like a fly never love you', as humans, we do not care for flies, hence by saying 'love you like a fly' indicates that we mean very little to the person saying this phrase. This changes the meaning by giving us the understanding that the one we have accidently fallen for, is not loving you back hence you are playing the devils game, by falling for the sin.

    The trick of the lyrics, however, is the word 'again'. This word completely changes the whole lyrics meaning, into something more extravagant. Most likely - the one you have fallen for a long time ago, in the paradise circus, has loved you back, until you have found that the devil was controlling your feelings, for the wrong person, leaving that 'wrong' person to break your heart and leave you.

    If you compare the lyrics to the official video of the song, then we are all wrong with the meaning entirely...

    (Please explain to me the pros and cons of my writing skills - I'm a 13 year old student and I am trying to build skills for my English exams)
    Flag GodaAon March 24, 2013   Link
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    Song Meaning:To me this song applies almost directly, it seems. I am sure I am not the only one. Whatever the meaning of the writer, we can all make our own meanings for the significance of this song. I see it as a married woman who is in love with another, and chooses to continue her discreet love affair with him, because she cannot simply divorce and be with him, life is often more complicated than that. Love is a sin could mean this, that she knows it is wrong to continue speaking with this man, but she will not, because she truly loves him and desires to be with him in the future. Or perhaps that the love between them is causing so much pain that it is almost sinful in nature. Now about the fly line.. I think, if it does mean fly like an insect, that she will love him without a cause, or a reason, without knowing why-- just as a fly does not think or know why it does not like humans, but they do. and when it says again: i think this was put there by the writer to mean something more personal, note the comma separating the fly analogy from the main point "she loves you... again." Perhaps a person she met once that she forged a special connection with, with the expectation that she would never see him again, but fate brings them back together and they fall in love.
    Flagged gbuckne1on January 29, 2013   Link
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    Song Meaning:The song generally seems to be about lust and not having it dominate a particular incident, but rather becoming more routine and less uncomfortable to act on it. The song refers to lust being apart of human nature - which she first clarifies before explaining how it pertains to herself.

    "She will love you like a fly will never love you again."

    I have a few interpretations. At this moment in the song, the perspective is changed from first person to second.
    For the quote, I visualize a failed relationship in which one person is heartbroken while the other is apathetic. The emotional quandaries of a fly are insigificant, and the fly is a metaphor for the apathy by "she" that is conveyed to her counterpart, I believe.

    A fly's desires could also be an extension and metaphor to the character of "lust" (whomever it may be) the vocalist refers to in the song, meaning that the character the song refers to may love another person, but only out of desire.
    Flag Pulpappleon October 17, 2012   Link
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    Song Meaning:The song generally seems to be about lust and not having it dominate a particular incident, but rather becoming more routine and less uncomfortable to act on it. The song refers to lust being apart of human nature - which she first clarifies before explaining how it pertains to herself.

    "She will love you like a fly will never love you again."

    I have a few interpretations. At this moment in the song, the perspective is changed from first person to second.
    For the quote, I visualize a failed relationship in which one person is heartbroken while the other is apathetic. The emotional quandaries of a fly are insigificant, and the fly is a metaphor for the apathy by "she" that is conveyed to her counterpart, I believe.

    A fly's desires could also be an extension and metaphor to the character of "lust" (whomever it may be) the vocalist refers to in the song, meaning that the character the song refers to may love another person, but only out of desire.
    Flag Pulpappleon October 17, 2012   Link
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    Song Meaning:The song generally seems to be about lust and not having it dominate a particular incident, but rather becoming more routine and less uncomfortable to act on it. The song refers to lust being apart of human nature - which she first clarifies before explaining how it pertains to herself.

    "She will love you like a fly will never love you again."

    I have a few interpretations. At this moment in the song, the perspective is changed from first person to second.
    For the quote, I visualize a failed relationship in which one person is heartbroken while the other is apathetic. The emotional quandaries of a fly are insigificant, and the fly is a metaphor for the apathy by "she" that is conveyed to her counterpart, I believe.

    A fly's desires could also be an extension and metaphor to the character of "lust" (whomever it may be) the vocalist refers to in the song, meaning that the character the song refers to may love another person, but only out of desire.
    Flag Pulpappleon October 17, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:And adding onto the "she will love you like a fly will never love you again" flies only really go to what they are attracted to. A fly doesn't hold feelings, it goes off of desire/ what it needs. In this case the girl is like a fly she only is after what she wants for a short period of time. She may not really have any feelings for him , therefore she will never love him again once they've used each other up and gotten what they wanted from the other, she'll be gone.
    Flag stars888on October 16, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:The narrator is tempted by a man she knows is wrong for her. She puts that aside, and gives into his lure. His magnetic force. She gives into lust, "we like it when we're spinning in his grin" Lust is one of the seven deadly sins, though love is not. Maybe in her situation she's confusing Love and Lust as the same thing, because she's overwhelmed by these emotions. She isn't proud of what she's doing, having sex with him, being used, using him, allowing herself to forget about her morals/values "rolling over when we're uncomfortable", or giving into her wants because it's easier . But even though this may be, I think deeply she yearns for it, she craves off his attention and feel. So she doesn't quite care that she's throwing herself away. She just wants to be wanted by him, that's all that matters to her. "Love is like a sin, for the ones that feel it the most" she feels it more than he does. He doesn't allow there to be feelings and emotions , while she does.
    Flag stars888on October 16, 2012   Link
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    My Opinion:I'm not really sure, but i have known this song for so long. and to me the line about the fly is simply because flies love the light once they get close to the flame they burn and die. they won't love it again because they are not there anymore. to me this song is porn to my ears.. it's sex! it's not about love.
    It's when we want someone so bad and you know it can never get further, so you just want to sleep with them to get rid of the feeling instead of just going away because it just won't happen and you can't do it. we try not to do it because it feels wrong, but once we get the chance we will do it, Then we regret it at some point, but that's okay cause it feels so good and we like it, and that devilish satisfaction just happens and they have no idea what we feel on the inside about it.
    I don't know why but it has nothing to do with what anyone thought it was but to me it's been always like that. maybe because that's the way i feel.
    Flag zyraabazaon June 26, 2012   Link
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    Lyric Correction:I'm quite certain it's "stone" and "grin."

    The stone is a problem, and we rid ourselves by finding a way out, or not dealing with it. We give up so easily. We barely try to solve our problems.

    "But we like it when we're spinning... in his grin..."

    We're too far gone. So much so that we love the chaos, the intense thrill of evil. His grin is enticing... It draws you in...
    Flag DemiLuvon June 25, 2012   Link

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