Maroon 5 – Misery

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  General Comment:I think this is about how he's so miserable with her but can't live without her. Almost like a love/hate relationship. He recognizes how much she hurts him and how she's controlling but he still can't deny that she is the only woman to comfort him, and how in ways they are similar and he isn't willing to let her go and give up. So he is trying to bridge the distance to reach her.
  
  I think it's about the frustration of him being miserable and trying to reach her again since she made herself distant both physically and emotionally.

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  General Comment:This is the first single from American pop rock band Maroon 5's third studio album, Hands All Over. The song documents the decay of a relationship, familiar territory for the band. Frontman Adam Levine told MTV News: "'Misery' is about the desperation of wanting someone really badly in your life but having it be very difficult. Kind of what all the songs I write are about. I'm not treading on new ground, but I think a lot of people - including myself - deal with that all the time. Relationships are difficult, and it's good therapy to write about them."
  
  
  Levine told MTV News about the Joseph Kahn-directed video. "The cool thing is, when Joseph wrote the treatment after reading a few sentences, I thought it was really amazing," he said. "Because it kind of turns the whole idea of the sexual energy between two people - a guy and a girl, a music video, you've seen that a million times - that exists in this video, but it's turning it on its ass and having the girl be the more domineering one who's trying to kill me."
  The clip was filmed in Los Angeles with Levine's girlfriend - Russian model Anne Vyalitsyna - playing the leading lady.
  
  
  The female lead's attempts to kill her lover in the video results in plenty of action sequences. This meant that stuntmen were required to double up for the band members in some of the scenes. Levine admitted to MTV News: "I'll tell you a little secret... the stuntmen were so great, but they probably weren't too happy because they had to dress like us [for the video], which was hilarious, because we aren't the most masculine dressers. This dude who was [keyboardist] Jesse [Carmichael]'s stunt double was, like, really buff, and he has Jesse's little low-top Converse and skinny jeans on. The shoes were, like, falling off his massive ankles."
  Levine added: "I did a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff is me! But most of it wasn't very dangerous. Although, by the end of the day, even not being hit by things is such a physical thing that I was really kind of beat up. I was like, 'Man, even thinking I got my ass kicked feels like getting my ass kicked.'"

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  General Comment:i think this song is about a relationship, the girl want to break up but she gives no clarification about it leaving him questioning about their relationship so the guy want to get her back like she used to be with him so they wont break up

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  General Comment:This has to be one of the best Maroon 5 songs...the lyrics are so good and I can really relate to this song

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  General Comment:OMG! I HEARD THIS ON VH1 ONE MORNING GETTING READY FOR SCHOOL AND TOTALLY FREAKED OUT! LOL MY MAMA THOUGHT I SAW A SPIDER! HA! I LOVE MAROON 5!!! <3

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  General Comment:i love this song. exspecialy when my boo Adam is getting his ass whooped. lmao

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  General Comment:This song is all about some sexual tension. " I am in misery, there ain't nobody that can comfort me...."

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  General Comment:Rarely does a song peg my feelings as well as this one, the acoustic version is frigin phenominal and really carries the emotion of the song as I feel it.
  
  Being in the same spot I feel all these lyrics, he loves her but shes not acting in a way that is ok with him, she is breaking his heart while stringing him along and he wants to know why... And feels these other emotions with it

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  General Comment:oops, i meant -my interpretation- :)

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  My Interpretation:- Well, to me it's always very obvious what it means, when i am in the same situation. -
  
  'There ain't nobody who can comfort me. Why won't you answer me? Your silence is slowly killing me.'
  She don't know what she wants, or doesn't wanna say it although he keeps asking it.
  
  'Why do you do what you do to me?'
  You can interpret that in two different ways, 1: Why do you give me this feeling? i know it's better not to like you, but you just really give me this special feeling & 2: Why do you treat me this way? I really like you, and you know that, so that's a compliment right? I've done nothing but being nice to you, so why do you treat me so bad?
  
  -my opinion!-

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