I have to admit, this song is pretty hard to figure out, but if anything I think it's about how we all hurt eachother in some way and it's like a cycle.
Or we demand that others should open up to us when we also hide our emotions from them, kinda like being hypocrits. I hope I spelled that right or atleast close enough.
@ladynausea Many of their songs are cryptic and ambiguous, I believe they did so on purpose. Even "Truly Madly Deeply" is not the straightforward love song it is believed to be, Darren Hayes explained the story behind it in 2015 and its lyrics were actually inspired by him longing for his hometown Brisbane and his family while recording new songs in Sydney.
@ladynausea Many of their songs are cryptic and ambiguous, I believe they did so on purpose. Even "Truly Madly Deeply" is not the straightforward love song it is believed to be, Darren Hayes explained the story behind it in 2015 and its lyrics were actually inspired by him longing for his hometown Brisbane and his family while recording new songs in Sydney.
It is amazing how many different meanings one can attach to a song like "Tears of Pearls. I heard it first when I was a teenager and saw it not as a story involving a couple... but rather, three people. For me, there is a third person describing another (a girl? a friend of his?) who has been hurt by love (the third person being the one singing the lyrics, i.e. Darren's "character"). He wants to offer solace to the girl ("Well I could be the tired joker / Pour my heart to get you in / Sacrifice my happiness just so I could win").
Apparently, he has been in secretly in love with her for a long while. Now that she has been hurt by another person, he wants to pick up the pieces and no longer feels like locking away his emotions from the rest of the world. He wishes to express those feelings which he has kept hidden for so long, and wants her to do the same.
I have to admit, this song is pretty hard to figure out, but if anything I think it's about how we all hurt eachother in some way and it's like a cycle. Or we demand that others should open up to us when we also hide our emotions from them, kinda like being hypocrits. I hope I spelled that right or atleast close enough.
@ladynausea Many of their songs are cryptic and ambiguous, I believe they did so on purpose. Even "Truly Madly Deeply" is not the straightforward love song it is believed to be, Darren Hayes explained the story behind it in 2015 and its lyrics were actually inspired by him longing for his hometown Brisbane and his family while recording new songs in Sydney.
@ladynausea Many of their songs are cryptic and ambiguous, I believe they did so on purpose. Even "Truly Madly Deeply" is not the straightforward love song it is believed to be, Darren Hayes explained the story behind it in 2015 and its lyrics were actually inspired by him longing for his hometown Brisbane and his family while recording new songs in Sydney.
It is amazing how many different meanings one can attach to a song like "Tears of Pearls. I heard it first when I was a teenager and saw it not as a story involving a couple... but rather, three people. For me, there is a third person describing another (a girl? a friend of his?) who has been hurt by love (the third person being the one singing the lyrics, i.e. Darren's "character"). He wants to offer solace to the girl ("Well I could be the tired joker / Pour my heart to get you in / Sacrifice my happiness just so I could win").
Apparently, he has been in secretly in love with her for a long while. Now that she has been hurt by another person, he wants to pick up the pieces and no longer feels like locking away his emotions from the rest of the world. He wishes to express those feelings which he has kept hidden for so long, and wants her to do the same.