i'm not quite sure what this song means... but i don't think it has anything to do with the guy being gay or raping anyone...
i think that instead of "unattended", he says, "she left her man and attended to me"... and after "cause you know that ain't true" it says, "my dire affliction i'll attribute to you"
...a skeleton key is a key in older houses that can open ALL of the doors... but i don't really understand what the meaning of it is in the song
it kind of seems like they've broken up and he's seeing all the horrible things he's done to her--- how he's brought her down... his "lack of loyalty" suggests that maybe he's been cheating on her, and "i bread my misery and drowned it in her" says to me that he's been putting all his baggage onto her... maybe even taking his anger out on her... and even though it makes him feel better ("she got me high"), he later sees that he was hurting her all along ("i hardly noticed there were tears in her eyes")... towards the end it seems like maybe he's convincing himself that, even though he's been missing her, he doesn't need her ("you're nothing special, you're a skeleton key")
someone else help out on the skeleton key part... i don't understand the reference to it at the beginning of the song ("you're finally free to twist and turn like a skeleton key"- how is it necessarily a good thing?)
I completely agree with this statement, i don't think the song has anything to do with raping someone at all.. when someone cheats they usually take it out on their lover and make them seem like the bad guy to make themselves fell better about their selves because they have a guilty conscious about what they did. so i assume he was taking all the anger he had built up inside on her instead of blaming himself. this goes along with the line 'i didn't realize there were tears in her eyes'
I completely agree with this statement, i don't think the song has anything to do with raping someone at all.. when someone cheats they usually take it out on their lover and make them seem like the bad guy to make themselves fell better about their selves because they have a guilty conscious about what they did. so i assume he was taking all the anger he had built up inside on her instead of blaming himself. this goes along with the line 'i didn't realize there were tears in her eyes'
i'm not quite sure what this song means... but i don't think it has anything to do with the guy being gay or raping anyone...
i think that instead of "unattended", he says, "she left her man and attended to me"... and after "cause you know that ain't true" it says, "my dire affliction i'll attribute to you"
...a skeleton key is a key in older houses that can open ALL of the doors... but i don't really understand what the meaning of it is in the song
it kind of seems like they've broken up and he's seeing all the horrible things he's done to her--- how he's brought her down... his "lack of loyalty" suggests that maybe he's been cheating on her, and "i bread my misery and drowned it in her" says to me that he's been putting all his baggage onto her... maybe even taking his anger out on her... and even though it makes him feel better ("she got me high"), he later sees that he was hurting her all along ("i hardly noticed there were tears in her eyes")... towards the end it seems like maybe he's convincing himself that, even though he's been missing her, he doesn't need her ("you're nothing special, you're a skeleton key")
someone else help out on the skeleton key part... i don't understand the reference to it at the beginning of the song ("you're finally free to twist and turn like a skeleton key"- how is it necessarily a good thing?)
I completely agree with this statement, i don't think the song has anything to do with raping someone at all.. when someone cheats they usually take it out on their lover and make them seem like the bad guy to make themselves fell better about their selves because they have a guilty conscious about what they did. so i assume he was taking all the anger he had built up inside on her instead of blaming himself. this goes along with the line 'i didn't realize there were tears in her eyes'
I completely agree with this statement, i don't think the song has anything to do with raping someone at all.. when someone cheats they usually take it out on their lover and make them seem like the bad guy to make themselves fell better about their selves because they have a guilty conscious about what they did. so i assume he was taking all the anger he had built up inside on her instead of blaming himself. this goes along with the line 'i didn't realize there were tears in her eyes'
that's my opinion. overall, amazing song.
that's my opinion. overall, amazing song.