Garbage – Sleep Together

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  Song Meaning:Umm... It's about the ways that people use sex to make themselves feel better about themselves. She's being sarcastic throughout the whole thing. It's all there.
  
  Also, the lyric in the first verse is "Satisfy this hungriness", not "my hungriness".

  Flag Crythaniaon August 30, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:By the way, all of you saying she's controlling a poor man and she's an evil bitch for being a tease and using sex as a weapon need to get over the fact that there are women on this planet who won't fuck you. That is NOT what this song is about. You're just thinking it is because you're hung up on some chick whom you wanted to screw and she wouldn't give you the time of day. Grow up and get over it already.

  Flag RedDollShoeson August 31, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:Both sides are right. The first several lines suggest the guy is totally whipped over her. But the lines
  
  "make me a pretty person
  make me feel like i belong
  make me hard and make me happy
  make me beautiful"
  
  suggest she is the one who is whipped. If she was really in control of this dude she wouldn't need him to make her feel beautiful or that she belongs. This song encompasses two different extremes that women can feel when considering banging someone for the first time. And I really don't think she's saying that she doesn't want to sleep with this guy. Everything about this song says "We're gonna fuck each other's brains out. I wonder what it will be like?" and she's getting excited about it. It's the thrill of sleeping with someone new.
  
  By the way, I think the "nothing satisfies me" line is incorrect. I always heard "if it satisfies me baby". Because all women know that while it's easy for the man to get off, our orgasm is never guaranteed; it's always an IF.
  
  Also the last lines are missing. Here they are.
  
  "Save it all for you my baby
  
  If we sleep together
  
  If we sleep together"

  Flag RedDollShoeson August 31, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:I agree with spamuell's interpretation of this song. Its very obvious not only from the lyrics but how she is singing them that she is the one in control. She definetly has this guy bent. The lines
  "i got you crawling up a mountain hanging round my neck" are saying how hard he is trying like he is crawling up a mountain not climbing a mountain but climbing it and she is wearing him like a chain. Around her neck. As far as the next line :
  i got you twisted round my finger
  crawling round my legs"?
  Hell thats obvious. She has him twisted around her finger and he is like a dog around her legs. This poor guy is so freakin bent for her she can do what she wants with him. Trust me i have been this guy on a few occasions so i recognize it. lol.
  The rest of the song speaks of how she knows he wants to sleep with her but she knows she is in control and what does a manipulating woman who uses sex do? She doesnt give up that control thats what!! Trust me they never do! I have an 18yr old stepson and i get to see him play the puppy to the fems with the whips and damn if it dont piss me off. Ilaugh sometimes cause i know he has to learn same as i did. But at any rate this song is definetly about a woman who is going to keep this guy dangling for awhile but i think in the end of the song she gives in to him because she is a very sexual woman as the end of the song sings of. She says prove it now or never. i think the rest is speaking of the moment they have sex where she wears something pretty , give me what i crave but she forewarns him. Nothing satisfys her as nothing ever will like controlling someone. Sex is a poor substitute for her since she looses control then. After he gets his he's probobly gone. Just my interpretation

  Flag fizzy1on May 24, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:she's in control of him, but if she sleeps with him, will she lose the control? she only has control over him cos she hasn't slept with him yet...

  Flag missmeon January 31, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:Oh yeah you're all right, she's a woman so it must be about her feeling peer pressure about having sex with a guy. Are you just completely ignoring the lines,
  
  "i got you crawling up a mountain
  hanging round my neck
  i got you twisted round my finger
  crawling round my legs"?
  
  I think it's the exact opposite of what you think it's about. The point is that she currently has someone who she can control because he wants to sleep with her but she won't agree to it, and if she does it will be anticlimactic for her ("nothing satisfies me") because it will end the manipulation that she has.
  
  When she says, "will you like me better?", she's being satirical, she knows that sleeping with him will both end the thrill of the prospect of sleeping with her, for him, and the power that she has over him, so neither of them will like the other better.
  
  It's a pretty depressing song because she doesn't offer an alternative.

  Flag spamuellon May 26, 2005   Link

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  General Comment:I think sisterofthemoon is right. Whether its her virginity or whether its just a new guy, dunno, but i think its pretty clear. Unless its a metaphor for something.. which is always seems to be in this industry lol i love the beginning:
  
  i got you crawling up a mountain
  hanging round my neck
  i got you twisted round my finger
  crawling round my legs

  Flag devil.theoryon May 15, 2005   Link

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  General Comment:I think its about her liking someone who doesn't want to be in a relationship with her, so she thinks if I sleep with him, maybe he'll like me in that way.

  Flag kmk_natashaon April 11, 2005   Link

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  General Comment:i think this song is about lust, this guy she really likes, however only wants her for sex, and she hasn't given it to him? and it's driving him crazy? but she's insecure...and she doesn't want to be used for just sex, but she's wondering if they do have sex, if he'll like her more....and the reason why she's witholding it isn't because she doesn't want to have sex, but because she's insecure and don't want to be used simply for sex.
  that's what i think

  Flag faerieon January 12, 2005   Link

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  General Comment:i think this song is about wanting the approval of the person your with so badly, you just want to have sex because then maybe you will mean enough to them that they will keep you around. she just feels so empty and out of control, that maybe this will make it alright.

  Flag indignityon October 26, 2004   Link

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