I am responding to this for several reasons, the first being my agreement that the song uses K as a metaphor for love, but, alas, reasons are many, and I also disagree very much with the analysis given earlier by forum user mrmoo232, who certainly in the first paragraph describes quite realistic effects of using K. I vehemently disagree, however, with how literally the rest of his or her post from almost a year ago reads. I, for one, do not think the song is a 'line for line', 'shot for shot', 'bump for bump' (if you will) comparative analogy to K. I definitely think the drug parallels are at the barest forefront of the song, but I first of all think that many things could substitute for K in Brian Molko's lyrics, and I don't necessarily think he intended this for sure when he wrote the song, although he may have, however, anyway, authorial intent is largely both relevant AND irrelevant in terms of the effect and lasting impact a song like this has on people and culture. I feel like what is important about this song is the comparison of the rush and the surge of feeling that unadulterated love gives the lover but also the deceptions and constant trials one must endure to sustain it.
'Gravity' is the inertia that with time can (but not always) turn love into avarice; can turn what once was 'coming up beyond belief' into a 'coronary thief'... a loss of the heart/head's will to ever feel something so extreme again, in a very similar way that drugs can get the user high many times but often little compares to the raw feelings and, dare I say, pure hearted expectations that love/drugs often coincide with in the beginning. That which made the heart feel the barest and strongest emotions can, when turned sour or having not met the expectations of the surely pure concept of love we all are taught since the youngest age to believe to be true, has the very real potential to destroy us in a fit of seeking (to feel real/to connect with the Real again). What once made the lover feel alive in the same turn can kill him or her, just like coke, or K can, in time, when the loved one is no longer the perfect ideal the one who loves seeks as a reason to live.
In my own imperfect opinion, it is no criticism of love or drugs, or the raw feelings AND dangers both can bring: it is a valid comparison to what true attachment can do. After all, there IS a reason the drug trade is one of the three most profitable industries in the world: people need (i would strikethrough this word if I knew how on here)... people want... that experience: it drives one to be alive. But, love can ("is")... as another musician once said... be 'suicide'... and this pursuit is what drives humans... it is libido and destruido. I love this song because I feel it expresses something innate to human nature (yes, even at a smaller level for those who think their indulgence is in check). Such is life. Human, all too human.
I am responding to this for several reasons, the first being my agreement that the song uses K as a metaphor for love, but, alas, reasons are many, and I also disagree very much with the analysis given earlier by forum user mrmoo232, who certainly in the first paragraph describes quite realistic effects of using K. I vehemently disagree, however, with how literally the rest of his or her post from almost a year ago reads. I, for one, do not think the song is a 'line for line', 'shot for shot', 'bump for bump' (if you will) comparative analogy to K. I definitely think the drug parallels are at the barest forefront of the song, but I first of all think that many things could substitute for K in Brian Molko's lyrics, and I don't necessarily think he intended this for sure when he wrote the song, although he may have, however, anyway, authorial intent is largely both relevant AND irrelevant in terms of the effect and lasting impact a song like this has on people and culture. I feel like what is important about this song is the comparison of the rush and the surge of feeling that unadulterated love gives the lover but also the deceptions and constant trials one must endure to sustain it.
'Gravity' is the inertia that with time can (but not always) turn love into avarice; can turn what once was 'coming up beyond belief' into a 'coronary thief'... a loss of the heart/head's will to ever feel something so extreme again, in a very similar way that drugs can get the user high many times but often little compares to the raw feelings and, dare I say, pure hearted expectations that love/drugs often coincide with in the beginning. That which made the heart feel the barest and strongest emotions can, when turned sour or having not met the expectations of the surely pure concept of love we all are taught since the youngest age to believe to be true, has the very real potential to destroy us in a fit of seeking (to feel real/to connect with the Real again). What once made the lover feel alive in the same turn can kill him or her, just like coke, or K can, in time, when the loved one is no longer the perfect ideal the one who loves seeks as a reason to live.
In my own imperfect opinion, it is no criticism of love or drugs, or the raw feelings AND dangers both can bring: it is a valid comparison to what true attachment can do. After all, there IS a reason the drug trade is one of the three most profitable industries in the world: people need (i would strikethrough this word if I knew how on here)... people want... that experience: it drives one to be alive. But, love can ("is")... as another musician once said... be 'suicide'... and this pursuit is what drives humans... it is libido and destruido. I love this song because I feel it expresses something innate to human nature (yes, even at a smaller level for those who think their indulgence is in check). Such is life. Human, all too human.