This song, to me, seems to be about the end of a new relationship due to falling out of love, not cheating. I get the sense that the narrator of the song doesn't want to be with his girl anymore, but she still wants him. It's like he's seeing the end of everything just as it's started: "the morning was complete" , "it's the beginning of the end", "went up the hill and disappeared around the bend". And she's asking him all these questions, maybe Why? Why? Why!? And he's like damn just punch me, tell me to fuck off, just stop asking questions!
When he says "Curiosity becomes a heavy load, too heavy to hold...will force you to be cold," I think he's referring to that change from childhood naivety into experienced adulthood. It's like when you don't know anything everything is fine, but clearly in order to grow you must ask questions and discover things for yourself. But no one really knows what they're in for. It's too much of a weight and you become so cold from all the indecent exposure. It's like you don't even care about anything anymore.
Clearly, this guy and girl love each other, but he wants it to end (he just sees the signs in everything around him), but he doesn't care that much--he wants her to punch him, say fuck off, act like she doesn't care, anything! to alleviate his own guilty pain. And she's all disheveled, shoes untied, eyes red, broken heart and still she says "Stop flattering yourself" when he offers help. I Like the last line because it's like after you've been through some stuff with someone, you really need to find the right words to let them know it's over, you've probably said "fuck off" to each other many times before, so how do you know when it's really over? "How to tear apart the ties that bind"?
Sigh...another beautifully written song by Alex Turner
This song, to me, seems to be about the end of a new relationship due to falling out of love, not cheating. I get the sense that the narrator of the song doesn't want to be with his girl anymore, but she still wants him. It's like he's seeing the end of everything just as it's started: "the morning was complete" , "it's the beginning of the end", "went up the hill and disappeared around the bend". And she's asking him all these questions, maybe Why? Why? Why!? And he's like damn just punch me, tell me to fuck off, just stop asking questions!
When he says "Curiosity becomes a heavy load, too heavy to hold...will force you to be cold," I think he's referring to that change from childhood naivety into experienced adulthood. It's like when you don't know anything everything is fine, but clearly in order to grow you must ask questions and discover things for yourself. But no one really knows what they're in for. It's too much of a weight and you become so cold from all the indecent exposure. It's like you don't even care about anything anymore.
Clearly, this guy and girl love each other, but he wants it to end (he just sees the signs in everything around him), but he doesn't care that much--he wants her to punch him, say fuck off, act like she doesn't care, anything! to alleviate his own guilty pain. And she's all disheveled, shoes untied, eyes red, broken heart and still she says "Stop flattering yourself" when he offers help. I Like the last line because it's like after you've been through some stuff with someone, you really need to find the right words to let them know it's over, you've probably said "fuck off" to each other many times before, so how do you know when it's really over? "How to tear apart the ties that bind"?
Sigh...another beautifully written song by Alex Turner