I've got this album when it came out in 1993 and it's been one of my fave since, with My Curse being my fave song on it.
Because of Marcy Mays' vocals and me being a female I take it personally:
I feel like it's about a BDSM relationship, where she is the submissive ("slave"), but she ends up falling for him and has to hide ("lie") about it every time they "get undressed". She finds a way to hide it so well that a day comes where she feels she can "smile now" because he will never find out... that she loves him.
She likes him so much that kissing him feels like punishment - his kisses "scourge" her. How powerful is that phrase, and so many others in this song?
She likes him cursing her in bed (as in any good kinky relationship), but also feels like he's her "Curse" - she loves him and being submissive to him in the bedroom, but for some reason that is not explained in the lyrics, he won't give her what she really wants... his love. He's her "temptation" that comes from hell and not from heaven, which she obsesses about and can't resist or get away from.
I've got this album when it came out in 1993 and it's been one of my fave since, with My Curse being my fave song on it.
Because of Marcy Mays' vocals and me being a female I take it personally:
I feel like it's about a BDSM relationship, where she is the submissive ("slave"), but she ends up falling for him and has to hide ("lie") about it every time they "get undressed". She finds a way to hide it so well that a day comes where she feels she can "smile now" because he will never find out... that she loves him.
She likes him so much that kissing him feels like punishment - his kisses "scourge" her. How powerful is that phrase, and so many others in this song?
She likes him cursing her in bed (as in any good kinky relationship), but also feels like he's her "Curse" - she loves him and being submissive to him in the bedroom, but for some reason that is not explained in the lyrics, he won't give her what she really wants... his love. He's her "temptation" that comes from hell and not from heaven, which she obsesses about and can't resist or get away from.