SF - catchy song.
Did you post it to spark a discussion about unrequited love or... maybe cheating? We've already talked about that subject... but you could say from these lyrics that it's more a song about fear rather than cheating. Staying in some unhappy situation rather than "moving on." Reminds me of a larger picture song about the general paralysis of fear and how people feel numbing sadness inside and yet don't have the strength to move forward.
(Forget the vid)
There are some great songs about love, fear, etc... like the Serge Gainsbourg song Je t'aime, moi non plus (I love you, neither do I) It's old, and I hope the content isn't too graphic for this board...
If so, I guess STella will delete me.
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Sergie is the king! Here's what he had to say about the song and his feelings of fear (bear in mind it's from the 60's):
"I love women as an object, the beautiful women, the mannequins, the models. This is the inner painter in me. I never tell them I love them. Je t'aime... moi non plus (I love you... me neither) expresses erotism overcoming sentimentalism… So many songs about romantic and sentimental love, encounters, discoveries, jealousy, illusions, desillusions, betrayals, remorses, hatred, etc... Then why not devote a song to a sort of love much more current these days: physical love? "Je t'aime" isn't an obscene song, it's very reasonable to me, and fills this gap. Its explanation is that girls say "I love you" during sex, and the man with their ridiculous virility doesn't believe them. They think the girls only say it as a result of enjoyment, of pleasure. I guess I believe the girls, or maybe that's a result of my fear. But that's also an aesthetic step, a search of absoluteness"
Quick translation (sounds better in French
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I love you, I love you, Oh yes I love you...Neither do I
Oh my love, like the wave irresolute
I go, I go and I come, inside you my love, I go and I come, inside you my love, and then I hold on
I love you, I love you, oh Yes I love you
Neither do I
You are the wave, and I the naked island,
You go, you go, and you come, you go and you come, inside me my love and then we are one
I love you, I love you, oh yes I love you
Neither do I
Oh my love, like the wave irresolute
I go, I go and I come, inside you my love, I go and I come, inside you my love, and then I hold on
etc...
Oh my love
Physical love is without exit
I go, I go and I come, inside you my love, I go and I come, and I hold on
