Oh come on, people, if you can be bothered to register on a website about Song MEANINGs, surely you can be bothered to look past the blatantly obvious surface interpretation (in this case oral sex) and find something a little more MEANINGful than that?
I think 42 steps's interpretation is really interesting, since I've never thought about the song as coming from the girl's perspective, but that all does make a lot of sense when you listen to it again, especially the repetition of "just like honey" as the girl trying to carry on taking the crap every day.
Personally I've always seen it as a man who's lost a woman and then sees her "taking on half the world"- ie the male gender- trying to find a new guy. He sees (and "listen"s) to her as she uses all her sweetnesss and all her tricks to seduce someone, and then her "dripping honey" makes him fall for her all over again. He hates admitting he was wrong ("walking back to you is the hardest thing that I could do") by going back to her, but he's under her spell so he'll do anything and be anything (I see "plastic toy" as his willingness to become a mere object, so she can do what she wants with him) to get her back. For me, the repeated bit at the end is partly his obsession with the woman, partly him trying NOT to remember the reasons they broke up in the first place- trying to convince himself that she's so sweet, things couldn't go wrong again.
And by the way, before I get the same kind of kind, considerate (ahem) reply that others have already received, I'm not saying this IS what the song is written about or what everyone should hear... its just my interpretation.
I couldn't agree more, it makes me really empathize and understand how frustrating it must be for artists being constantly expected to provide, confirm or deny childishly simplistic interpretations of their work so the masses can neatly pigeonhole and be spared the agony of ambiguity or independent thought
I couldn't agree more, it makes me really empathize and understand how frustrating it must be for artists being constantly expected to provide, confirm or deny childishly simplistic interpretations of their work so the masses can neatly pigeonhole and be spared the agony of ambiguity or independent thought
Oh come on, people, if you can be bothered to register on a website about Song MEANINGs, surely you can be bothered to look past the blatantly obvious surface interpretation (in this case oral sex) and find something a little more MEANINGful than that?
I think 42 steps's interpretation is really interesting, since I've never thought about the song as coming from the girl's perspective, but that all does make a lot of sense when you listen to it again, especially the repetition of "just like honey" as the girl trying to carry on taking the crap every day.
Personally I've always seen it as a man who's lost a woman and then sees her "taking on half the world"- ie the male gender- trying to find a new guy. He sees (and "listen"s) to her as she uses all her sweetnesss and all her tricks to seduce someone, and then her "dripping honey" makes him fall for her all over again. He hates admitting he was wrong ("walking back to you is the hardest thing that I could do") by going back to her, but he's under her spell so he'll do anything and be anything (I see "plastic toy" as his willingness to become a mere object, so she can do what she wants with him) to get her back. For me, the repeated bit at the end is partly his obsession with the woman, partly him trying NOT to remember the reasons they broke up in the first place- trying to convince himself that she's so sweet, things couldn't go wrong again.
And by the way, before I get the same kind of kind, considerate (ahem) reply that others have already received, I'm not saying this IS what the song is written about or what everyone should hear... its just my interpretation.
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Thank you for being one of the only people in here with half a brain.
Thank you for being one of the only people in here with half a brain.
I couldn't agree more, it makes me really empathize and understand how frustrating it must be for artists being constantly expected to provide, confirm or deny childishly simplistic interpretations of their work so the masses can neatly pigeonhole and be spared the agony of ambiguity or independent thought
I couldn't agree more, it makes me really empathize and understand how frustrating it must be for artists being constantly expected to provide, confirm or deny childishly simplistic interpretations of their work so the masses can neatly pigeonhole and be spared the agony of ambiguity or independent thought