Lyrics for You Look So Fine as interpreted by sawg

You Look So Fine Lyrics
You look so fine
I want to break your heart
And give you mine
You're taking me over

It's so insane
You've got me tethered and chained
I hear your name
And I'm falling over

I'm not like all the other girls
I can't take it like the other girls
I won't share it like the other girls
That you used to know

You look so fine

Knocked down
Cried out
Been down just to find out
I'm through
Bleeding for you

I'm open wide
I want to take you home
We'll waste some time
You're the only one for me

You look so fine
I'm like the desert tonight
Leave her behind
If you want to show me

I'm not like all the other girls
I won't take it like the other girls
I won't fake it like the other girls
That you used to know

You're taking me over
Over and over
I'm falling over
Over and over

You're taking me over
Drown in me one more time
Hide inside me tonight
Do what you want to do
Just pretend happy end
Let me know let it show

Ending with letting go (3x)

Let's pretend, happy end (4x)

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skapunkemo
05-10-2002

Rated +1 
This is one of my favorite garbage songs. But anyway, I interpret it as a song about love, like she loves this guy that doesn't care especially for her. She is all crazy for him and loves him but he can't see she is different from other girls. He cares somewhat for her, but their relationship is never quite what she wants, so she's like "I'm done being emotionally dragged around by you" like she's waited too long and been ignored (knocked down, through bleeding for you) and finally she just has to completely let go of the relationship. I don't really know.

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Kez
06-04-2002

Rated 0 
it's abeautiful song...shirley just sounds so emotionally vulnerable and fragile it's beautiful...

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smurfjkeller
06-20-2002

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my fav Garbage song...it's so beautiful and I can relate...

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tommib
07-17-2002

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one of my Garbage favorite songs, Shirley sounds so sensitive, emotional and tender.

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jkdude
08-06-2002

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Shirley Is Amazing Like This; She Can Have A Grunge-Piss-Off Tone & Attitude. But She Can Also Have The Help-Me-I'm-Such-A-Delicate-Flower Tone Which Is Beautiful. U Gotta Love Her

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|mesh|
08-06-2002

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a very beautiful song.. she's head over heels on him, but he has another girl. she's completely empty w/out him that's y she wants him desperately (im like the desert tonite, leave her behind). she wants him to realize she's no ordinary girl.. she hates d situation coz whatever she tries to do, she cant hav him..and still, "he looks so fine" as if there's not a slight of burden in him. "Knocked down, cried out, been down just to find out, I'm through bleeding for you"... she had been through all these crap so now, she cant be hurt less..so what she wanna happen is still to hav him..thats it..whether he truly loves her or not. it doesnt matter anymore (lets pretend happy end)

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Bare
08-23-2002

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this song summons my life up in a nutshell at this moment... there's a boy that i love more than anything in this world, and yet i'm knocked down cried out... i wish i could say that i am through bleeding for you, but i can't let him go yet. still holding onto hope.

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Charming_bob
03-14-2003

Rated +1 
The song of embittered would be lovers everywhere. Which is why i listen to it so damn much. But ultimately its about knowing when to give up on something that you know can't happen. "Im through, bleeding for you".

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bopton
04-02-2003

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The entire composition of this song is mindblowing! This is my favourite garbage song and anyone who has heard it will not find it hard to know why!

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Kippixin
06-12-2003

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Very beautiful.

From what I see: It's about being really in love with this guy, who does not want you. They're too busy dating all the other girls. (Maybe because they're cool? Who knows.) When you obvious see all those other girls are just pretending to like him ( "I won't fake it like all the other girls") when she really loves him. And obvious, as mentioned above, "I'm through, bleeding for you" means it can never happened.

Welp that's my five cents.

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Raine Casso
06-24-2003

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This is the perfect song that would go with the anime series GRAVITATION perfect synchronization with lyrics and storyline. One of the best Garbage songs yet

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Reizvoll
01-08-2005

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I think the lyrics point to her being a dumpee in a relationship cause she sings "Love me one more time" I think she just can't get over him

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faerie
01-08-2005

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^ where does she sing love me one more time???

shit i love this song!!! and i can totally relate to it too. my favourite line from this song

"I want to break your heart
And give you mine"

it's so subtle, but it means so much, and i love the oxymoron of it.

i want to break your heart...because you've been breaking mine, because it's time for revenge, because i want you to feel how i felt when you broke my heart.

and give you mine, so then maybe you can love me like i love you, i love you so much that i can give you my heart.

it's so clever, i love it :p

yeh, basically agreeing with what everone said here, a girl's fallen head over heels over a guy who has another girl and she wants him to know she's not like the rest of them...and that she's special, or she's more vulnerable?!

well, she says ending with letting go, so he broke up with her or something? and lets pretend, happy end, she's faking to be happy to him even though the break up hurts??

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yamisakuma
01-22-2005

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This is my favourite Garbage song.

I think its about a breakup, but she still loves him or something. Or, she broke up with him because he cheated on her, but she still loves him?

I'm not like all the other girls
I can't take it like the other girls
I won't share it like the other girls
That you used to know

That part reminds me of cheatingness.

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kmk_natasha
02-05-2005

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It's all been said before, but it's also my fav Garbage song and it's a very beautiful song.

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sparklefaerie
04-08-2005

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I absolutely adore this song; it's replaced Dido's 'Here With Me' as my favourite ever song. First heard it on episode 1.20 of Queer as folk US, so I always associate it with Brian&Justin; it really fits in with their non-relationship, from both their points of view, depending on the angle you look at it from. It's beautiful, though. So haunting and melodic and pretty. - S

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kmk_natasha
04-11-2005

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I love Queer as Folk and never picked up on that (probably b/c I already knew the song). That hits with Justin's attitude towards Brian (especially in the beginning of their relationship).

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Danni_bauer
12-08-2005

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When I was younger I had this idea for a movie because of this song. I would walk with my head phones on thinking of scenes. Rad song.

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missme
01-31-2006

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It's one of my favourite love songs ever. Absolutely beautiful, and her vocals are so stunningly fragile... I first heard it years ago, but still, everytime I like someone, I end up coming back to this song & listening to it... I think it describes the feelings of being head over heels for someone so well, and beautifully, too...

It's about when you like someone so much, it almost isn't true...and you know "it's so insane", but you can't stop. "You're taking me over...I hear your name, and I'm falling over"...those lines decribe the way you feel when you like someone that much so simplistically well... She truly believes she's the only one for him, and when you like someone that much, you truly do, don't you? Sometimes you just want to tell them, "I'm not like all the other girls", I'm different...

Also, it's not just about infatuation with anyone...it's about someone you can't have. Maybe the guy's in a relationship: "Leave her behind, if you want to show me..." Also, she says, "Let's pretend happy end" at the end of the song, like she knows it can't work out in the long run, but just being together for one night & pretending it'll last forever is enough for her...

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Aurore
03-08-2006

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Quite unexpectedly, this is the favorite garbage song of my boyfriend :) And maybe mine, too.
"Let's pretend, happy end" : so true, you don't want to show to everybody that you suffer of the end of a relationship...

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rosewood
09-30-2006

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definetely my favorite garbage song
extremely sweet but also sad...and her voice is sooo beautiful on this one .. i can listen to it again n again . .. never get tired
and everyone can relate... just love it!!!!

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sonyjez
12-08-2006

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"You look so fine, I want to break your heart and give you mine" is probably one of the best lines I've ever heard in a song. You love somebody but you hate them at the same time because you're suffering because of them. You want to break their heart but you love them too much to leave them hurt so you'd rather hurt yourself instead.

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crow_heart
12-27-2006

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my favorite garbage song!

it's so gorgeous and makes me cry all the time!

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feelgoodtime05
01-23-2007

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Quite possibly one of the best love songs ever written. Sheer perfection.

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CharlesManson
04-22-2007

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Shirley has stated in public that the song is about a guy who Shirley was madly in love with but unfortunately he didn't feel the same for her

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