Placebo – My Sweet Prince

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  General Comment:its about heroin addiction....duuuuuhhh ;)

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  General Comment:this is definitely the saddest song I have ever heard in my entire life.

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  My Interpretation:Actually, now that I've listened to this song again (as in over and over :) ), it almost sounds as if he's singing to someone who he calls "my sweet prince" who sort of got him over his addiction to drugs. Because he said "never thought all this would backfire" then "close up the hole in my vein" which sounds like he was shooting up, but now closing up the hole, as if he's stopped. So to me it sounds as if he's realizing that he loves this person (who I'm assuming is a guy by the usage of prince) more than the drugs that he used to be taking. Also he says "never thought you'd fuck with my brain" and why would be saying that about drugs, since really that's exactly what drugs do: fuck with your brain? and also he says "never thought I'd have to abstain," like maybe abstain from the drugs he was taking because of this new person that he met who he realizing is more valuable to him than drugs. I don't know for sure, of course, but it's just my interpretation of it.

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    Also, when he said "never thought you'd go break the chain" like maybe the chain he was hooked on figuratively to drug use or somehting.

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  My Interpretation:I personally interpreted this song as kind of the aftermath of a break up
  like "Without You I'm Nothing" it nearing the end of a relationship and My Sweet Prince was about killing all the feelings afterwards by escaping with drugs.
  It definitely is a song about drug use and if you really look into it it starts out with the references really masked by lyrics that could be either about love or drugs and as the song progresses the drug references are very obvious "close up the hole in my vein" and such.
  
  Also the prechorus lyric twice has a definite drug reference:"me and the dragon", "me and my valuble friend" and they both say that those things currently take pain away.
  whereas the last prechorus says "Me and you baby USED to flush all the pain away" I still hear "used to" I can't hear "still flush all the pain..." Anyways it seems as if in the prechorus/chorus he goes from personifying the drug to speaking of an actual person. "My sweet prince" is a person, whether it's quoting someone calling him that or he's identifying someone else... the fact that it starts with "before I end my day, remember" it's a memory of someone and it's the memory that he's trying to escape. And ending the day is taking another hit.
  
  
  It's a love song about a drug. A drug replacing love between him and another person.

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  Song Meaning:" We wrote 'My sweet prince' after an actual event, about one of my relationships that ended in a true tragedy. A guy the three of us were really close to nearly died. It was really hard, we were rather troubled by this. Because we had these very strong feelings in us, this song kind of came out from nowhere. From our guts. I have a strong link with this song. It refers to a relationship with a guy and a relationship with a certain substance (heroin). These two reletionships end simultaneously in horrendous circumstances. He used to call me 'My sweet ptince' "
  Brian Molko, Tetu Magazine 1999
  
  I found this a couple of years ago, as I was looking for the meaning of the song... It's a french interview of Placebo ranslated into english. I printed it, but I can't remember the link... And there was a live performance I once watched, where Brian goes "So, it's really a song about heroin... We said 'too bad' and he left, during the song..." That's all I know about the meaning of "My sweet prince". This is the best song ever.

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  My Interpretation:I dont find it like something that has to do with drugs.
  I find it more like a good bye letter, suicidal may be...
  Wrote by the girl, expressing her unique love to someone who left her or cheated.
  At first she describes how she felt about the relationship Never thought you'd make me perspire.Never thought I'd do you the same.Never thought I'd fill with desire.Never thought I'd feel so ashamed.(this one is for what he did to her?)
  
  The "Me and the dragon can chase all the pain away." may refer to some kind of weapon.
  
  "Never thought I'd have to retire
  Never thought I'd have to abstain
  Never thought all this could back fire
  Close up the hole in my vain"
  
  This might be about that she never specked to have to go.. away or die.
  Abstain of having him, of kissing, looking at him being unable to treat him like a boyfriend.
  Never thought that the "beautiful" love could cause her that kind of pain.
  
  The rest of the song may mean something related to " our relationship is over but still i love you and i never thought this could happened"
  

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  General Comment:One of my favourite songs of Placebo, it makes me cry way too much, it's too deep, "fix all the pain away", so addictive, love it.

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  My Opinion:all great songs like this have their different meanings to everybody, and each of them is correct (though some are more correct than others :P)
  I love how he uses his breath to chop words in half (eg: remembe-her & awa-hay) it seems to be a trademark of Molko's, and it just fills it with so much more passion, it really takes the lyrics to another level

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  General Comment:Here's an extract from Brian's interview (can be found on placebo.fan.pl)
  
  Me and the dragon can chase all the pain away... Never thought all this could backfire/Close up the whole in my vein
  Brian: That's quite obvious isn't it? It's heroin.
  Brian: I'm very proud of 'My Sweet Prince' because I managed to get... I've never used the word baby in a song before and I managed to get fuck and baby in the same verse and I'm very, very proud of that.
  
  'My Sweet Prince' is not as risque as some of the others but you're not going to get much radio play because there are so many drugs references in it - and yet it sounds to me like a love song.
  Brian: It is a love song really, you know, and it's... we don't write songs with radio play in mind, you know, that was a song that... there was quite a big tragedy in our lives that occurred while we were demoing this record before Christmas and it sort of had to come out. We just kind of vomited the song forward you know. And it's kind of a song about sort of two romances, a romance with a substance and a romance with a person and they both ended very, very tragically. Hence you know the very, very downbeat mood of the song. It's so, you know... the song, even the guitars sound druggy in that song, it's weird, and that wasn't really that purposeful, it just kind of came out that way.
  
  
  Does the song deal as much with criticising drugs as it does with the love affair with drugs?
  Brian: It's more about the love affair with the individual really and you know, I don't really care. That's a very important song to me and it sort of... it puts in a box sort of like a very, very difficult moment of my life and you know essentially we write music for ourselves first and I find that one quite difficult to talk about.
  
  
  Is it very satisfying for you in a cathartic way when you sing it then?
  Brian: Well yes, and I think most of the songs on the album are sort of like me purging myself of certain demons really. I think it makes it easier to live with if you've done something positive and artistic with them you know and that you've kind of distanced yourself a little bit from these things. You can look upon them objectively because you've put them in a song.
  
  And the tragedy that happened, did the person survive to know that this song's about them?
  Brian: Yes, she knows.
  
  Do you think it's a help to her?
  Brian: I don't know.

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  General Comment:I think this song is about a man who Brian would have on and off hook ups. He was surprised he still felt the same every time he went back to him, but in the end I believe he got tired of him so he felt "ashamed" maybe cuz the feelings weren't mutual any longer. Break up song of course.. He says "before I end my day" meaning before he leaves, he's letting him know he was always that special someone.
  
  also "valuable friend" is the heroine, who he uses substitute his pain for leaving him.
  
  he "fucked" with his brain, I think means he was still around giving him feelings of ambivalence.
  
  he never thought it could end, "break the chain".
  
  No?

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