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I want love to, roll me over slowly
Stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.
I want love to, grab my fingers gently
Slam them in a doorway, put my face into the ground.
I want love to, murder my own mother and
Take her off to somewhere like hell or up above.
I want love to change my friends to enemies,
Change my friends to enemies and show me how it's all my fault.
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
Yeah I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me anymore.
I want love to, walk right up and bite me
Grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.
And I want love to, split my mouth wide open and
Cover up my ears and never let me hear a sound.
I want love to, forget that you offended me
Or how you have defended me when everybody tore me down.
Yeah I want love to change my friends to enemies,
Change my friends to enemies and show me how it's all my fault.
Yeah I wont let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me anymore.
Stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.
I want love to, grab my fingers gently
Slam them in a doorway, put my face into the ground.
I want love to, murder my own mother and
Take her off to somewhere like hell or up above.
I want love to change my friends to enemies,
Change my friends to enemies and show me how it's all my fault.
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
Yeah I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me anymore.
I want love to, walk right up and bite me
Grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.
And I want love to, split my mouth wide open and
Cover up my ears and never let me hear a sound.
I want love to, forget that you offended me
Or how you have defended me when everybody tore me down.
Yeah I want love to change my friends to enemies,
Change my friends to enemies and show me how it's all my fault.
Yeah I wont let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me anymore.
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My interpretation of that is that we want love so badly that we're willing to put up with all sorts of pain and suffering just to feel loved. And that all of the things we go through, we go through for love. I think that it's also saying that even when we feel loved we do stupid things to the people we love, and to ourselves, to get more love, or different love, or better love. And that this search for greater and different and more love is what makes us human. So the chorus is about embracing that human need to pursue love despite all of the things it does to us and makes us do.
Back to our love which attempts to mimic perfect love, I interpret the love which disrupts, corrupts and interrupts as our version of love. We cling. We are selfish. We don’t even know how to help others. We consider physical factors most important. Our love is wildly dependent.
Still, we know that there is a better love which gives us hope. So, at the heart of the song is wanting love to transform you in ways you don’t understand.
The line “Change my friends to enemies and show me how it’s all my fault.” reminds me of people who go through a life change where they join a new religion. You realize that all that you had done in your life was harmful to you. All the influences and even the way you treated yourself was making you an enemy to yourself.
No one is ever your enemy in the sense that they cannot hide the beauty in everything from you. We hide life’s beauty from ourselves. There is that realization that people’s way is not the way though. They become like enemies merely because they are living the old life. They seem like threats to that view you found.
I believe this song is not ironic, just veiled.
I think he wants a love so good that it could do all those things to him, and still make him feel like he's on the winning side of it.
I think he wants a love worth submitting to. Worth getting hurt over.
"Real love is never meant to hurt you;"
Love hurts man, it hurts so much that you will cry your last tear. Instead of crying you will feel pain, you will feel it and you will have no control over it.
Love is not so much of an obsession, its the need to be loved.
In the perspective of Jack, I feel he is expressing that people are only interested in one thing, their needs. Also, where there is money a flock of sheep will follow, they will laugh with you as long as you have money in your pocket.
epic verse for anyone who had ever watched someone lose all their friends over some guy or girl.
I don't know much about Jack White, but I think this song is supposed to be ironic, because after saying that he wants love to do such and such abusive thing to him, he says he won't let that kind of love disrupt, corrupt him, etc.
And the interesting thing is he later says he wants love to forget it offended him... same thing that goes on in an abusive relationship. The agressor comes back and says sorry, that it wasn't a big deal, and he/she still loves you...when it's really all a lie. Then White keeps saying that he won't let love disrupt, corrupt, interrupt him.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd like to really ask him what this means. Because other people say that this song represents how love is all consuming... but though love is all consuming, it's not abusive. That's not love, that's obsession.
So in conclusion, I think this song is using irony.
In healthy love.. there would not be as much pain and confusion and the chorus recognizes this. I won't let love disrupt corrupt interrupt.. He is choosing to be away from situations that escalate... not blaming one party or another .. but recognizing that taking all the blame is skewed.
Brilliant, Mr. White and a beautiful song about choosing a healthy mind over twisted fights with a loved one.... a sober anthem.