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Laura
Calls me
In the middle of the night
Passes on her
Painful information
Then these careless fingers
They get caught in her vice
Til they're bleeding
On my coffee table
Living alone isn't all that
It's cracked up to be
I'm on her side
Why does she push the poison on me?
Laura
Has a very hard time
All her life has
Been one long disaster
Then she tells me
She suddenly believes she's seen
A very good sign
She'll be taking
Some aggressive action
I fight her wars
While she's slamming her doors
In my face
Failure to break
Was the only mistake
That she made
Here I am
Feeling like a fucking fool
Do I react the way exactly
She intends me to?
Everytime I think I'm off the hook
She makes me lose my cool
I'm her machine
And she can punch all the keys
She can push any button I was programmed through
Laura
Calls me
When she needs a good fix
All her questions
Will get sympathetic answers
I should
Be so
Immunized
To all of her tricks
She's surviving
On her second chances
Sometimes I feel like this
Godfather deal is all wrong
How can she hold an umbilical chord
For so long?
I've done everything I can
What else am I supposed to do
I'm her machine
And she can punch all the keys
She can push any button I was programmed through
Laura
Loves me
Even if I don't care
That's my problem
That's her sacred absolution
If she had to
She would put herself in my chair
Even though I
Faced electrocution
She always says
I'm the best friend that
She's ever had
How do you
Hang up on someone
Who needs you that bad?
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The women in this song wants full control in order to obtain eventual submission which a narcissist would always try to do. The last line "How do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad?" indicates that he knows the whole game and no longer will be torn apart by participating any longer.
now, onto the meaning of the song (how odd that i would be posting such a thing on SONGMEANINGS.net) it's clearly about john laurnnon (or something like that) as joel is blatantly ripping off the beatles with the musical aspect of this song, so this song basically gives a description between the romance between joel and lennon. Yes, joel and lennon had an affair. It's just a good thing that none of his seventeen thousand wives have found out about it. Joel names the song "laura" in an attempt to confuse us but we all know that it is really the feminine form of the name "lennon". right?
okay, good. now that that's all cleared up, allow me to reinforce a point i made earlier: go fucking kill yourself you stupid piece of fuck. honestly, you're reading songmeanings.net. how pathetic.
Oh and anyone who signs up just to respond to me and say "YOU'RE the one whos pathetic" is even more fucking pathetic.
Squadala! i'm off motherfuckers.
Feeling like a fucking fool
Do I react the way exactly
She intends me to?
It's addiction to a woman. He wants to break the habit, knowing the relationship is not good for him, but he finds himself going back to her (maybe out of pity) and he hates it because he just can't cut her loose.
The umbilical chord says it all ;)
I've always thought it was about his mom, 'cause
my mom is exactly like "Laura" I recently got
it confirmed... it truly is written about his mother.
so please explain
i really thinks its about someone he used to love, now he CARES about her, but doesn't want her anymore.
He wants her to be happy, safe, but he doesn't want to be the one providing it.
mayybe??