Lyrics for Laid as interpreted by typo

Laid Lyrics
This bed is on fire with passionate love
The neighbors complain about the noises above
But she only comes when she's on top

My therapist said not to see you no more
She said you're like a disease without any cure
She said I'm so obsessed that I'm becoming a bore, oh no

Ah, you think you're so pretty...

Caught your hand inside the till
Slammed your fingers in the door
Fought with kitchen knives and skewers
Dressed me up in womens' clothes
Messed around with gender roles
Line my eyes and call me pretty

Moved out of the house so you moved next door
I locked you out, you cut a hole in the wall
I found you sleeping next to me, I thought I was alone
You're driving me crazy
When are you coming home?

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zekey baby
01-09-2002

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ahh this song kills me. it's howlz

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Forevergreen
05-19-2002

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Is... Is that good?

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chloroformxxperfume
07-02-2002

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forevergreen, i was wondering the same thing...

anyway, i love this song so much. i always forget about it, and then rediscover it, and have to listen to it nonstop for a month. it's madness.



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demosthenes
08-03-2002

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i love this song. its so simple but i can never get it out of my head

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dansr
04-29-2003

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i agree entierly with chloroform

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butterflykiss84
04-11-2004

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This song is just fantastic!

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slade
04-25-2004

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This song scares me.

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QueenFan
11-02-2004

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This song is one of my favourite EVER songs, the fact it was on american pie covered by a terrible band was just insulting

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nesterreg
11-26-2004

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YA... but what is it about...

It's about a guy who is struggling with the fact that he is a transvestite ("Dress me up in women's cloths...messed around with gender roles"). He is trying to break free of that way of life ("My therapist said not to see you no more"), but can't b/c he is too addicted to the lifestyle. "[I] Moved out of the house...so you moved next door, I locked you out...you cut a hole in the wall" and then later - "You're driving me crazy...when are you coming home?" He is trying to stop living this way - but can't resist.

When he says "you", "she", "you're", etc. he is talking about himself as a woman.

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sOCS479
12-27-2004

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ahhh i see, well done nesterreg. i never knew thats wot it was about. terrific tune though. one of my favourites.

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marli
12-28-2004

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nesterreg that's an awesome interpretation and i am desperatetly trying to figure out another one. i would rather look at it as a painful addiction to a person than being a tranvestite even though once that's been brought up i can't deny ow much sense it makes.

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shakermaker
01-25-2005

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Interesting interpretation nesterreg, however if "she" refers to himself as his cross-dressed other half, I shudder to think what is meant by "But she only comes when she's on top" in the first verse. I believe the correct assumption about this line is that she is on top and he is on the bottom, but if she is really he and he is really she... I'm just not quite sure that's the picture these guys intended to paint.
I don't think I ever looked into this song too much myself. I guess I always thought that it was a guy dating a sexaholic or nympho and then realizing that he had to get out of the relationship b/c it was getting out of hand. I suppose some might think that's a bit of an unrealistic reason to break off a relationship, but I can see it happening.

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stoolhardy
02-09-2005

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I don't really think that the song is about a transvestite. I always thought the cross-dressing lines of this songs were just an example of doing nutty things. There are plenty of normal people who have dabbled in cross-dressing at some point. Those lines are in a verse where he talks about playing with knives and slamming someone's fingers in a door. I always thought the song was about a relationship with a nymphomaniac also, and the relationship is ruining him (thus the "therapist" and "driving me crazy" stuff).

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Desaparecida
02-16-2005

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this song is fun... i like it.... i don't know what its about though... maybe it's about a transvestite nymphomaniac...lol...

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clasicrock
03-05-2005

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Great song. The line "You think you're so pretty." is pure genius.

I'm pretty sure the one line, though is "Line my eyes and call me pretty" not "dye my eyes"

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kaleidoscopeeyes8
03-23-2005

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I was going to leave the same comment as clasicrock -

The correct lines are:
\"Line my eyes and call me pretty.\"

Like eyeliner, you know.

And I do not think this song is about transvestites. I think it just about an unhealthy relationship he was in.

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kaleidoscopeeyes8
03-23-2005

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To elaborate on what I was saying - I think his messing about with gender roles is something that his psychotic, nympho girlfriend made him do to help her get off.

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hoyden
05-04-2005

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i could see it kinda being a 'fight club' kinda scenario... like he almost has a split personality when it comes to how he reacts with this girl... and he loves it and yet it drives him crazy too... they had a crazy relationship [s&m, crossdressing] and sometimes experimenting like that can really affect a person..

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Bonavox
06-20-2005

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'Fought with kitchen knives and skewers
Dressed me up in womens clothes
Messed around with gender roles'

Sounds like BDSM to me.. that's pretty much what i thought of this song.. and yes it is 'line my eyes' not dye

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Red_Lioness
06-27-2005

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Brilliant song, whatever it is about!

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boxermom1004
07-11-2005

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Love love love all the interpretations! Lola, now that's a song about transvestites. This one always just reminded me of being in a hot & heavy sexual relationship that didn't really have anything else going for it. I had one of those once.

It's like filled with passion and great sex, but then when it's time to do anything else (like have a conversation) all you do is fight and argue.

He tries to break it off with her but she keeps stalking him cuz the sex is so great. Hmmm... sounds so familiar... I think I may have been the inspiration for this song. lmao.

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pumkinhed
01-07-2006

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I just dig "Laaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid"

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littlegreenwonder
03-08-2006

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My favourite song in the world....ever!!

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SpaceOddity2k6
03-13-2006

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I thought that the she was actually a woman, but now that I'm looking at it I think that it might be a transvestite. Interesting view.

GREAT SONG!

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delial
05-18-2006

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ha, this is one of those songs that reminds me of camping, for some reason[the melody part of it].

i think yeah, it's about loving someone who's bad for you to the point you have to seek help for how badly messed up you're becoming because of it. this person, at the same time, won't let him off the hook, and stalks him. he wants away, yet he can't say no to her when she comes back around because he's so wrapped up in what they've become, he enjoys some of their time together so much he can't entirely pull himself away.

it's true...it's a lot harder to move on when someone is stalking you. a lot of "what if"s that you probably could avoid thinking about just pop up time and again when the person you're trying to get over won't stay away from you, as expressed in this song.

the cross-dressing aspect of this song just plain rocks, btw =P

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