The drug addiction theory piques my interest, and it has a number of merits, but two things bother me about it. First, the line "When your heart is all I need." Drugs control the mind of the addicted person: they don't need to demand the heart. Also, the addiction interpretation doesn't really fit with the music, and Dido doesn't usually put such an incongruity between her lyrics and the music. There's more to a song than the words alone, and though it wouldn't be unusual if it were about drugs, a contented feeling for a song about such dark subject matter would be a pretty big departure from her usual style.
Mattman770: Did Dido say that it was about addiction, or did she just say that it wasn't a love song?
The drug addiction theory piques my interest, and it has a number of merits, but two things bother me about it. First, the line "When your heart is all I need." Drugs control the mind of the addicted person: they don't need to demand the heart. Also, the addiction interpretation doesn't really fit with the music, and Dido doesn't usually put such an incongruity between her lyrics and the music. There's more to a song than the words alone, and though it wouldn't be unusual if it were about drugs, a contented feeling for a song about such dark subject matter would be a pretty big departure from her usual style.
Mattman770: Did Dido say that it was about addiction, or did she just say that it wasn't a love song?
@ElectraInstead she said it was about drugs in one of her concerts..
@ElectraInstead she said it was about drugs in one of her concerts..
@ElectraInstead she said it was about drugs in one of her concerts..
@ElectraInstead she said it was about drugs in one of her concerts..
live at Brixton in 2005
live at Brixton in 2005