The Love Club Lyrics
It's not the same as when I was punched
In the old days there was enough
The card games and ease with the bitter salt of blood
I was in but I want out
My mother's love is choking me
I'm sick of words that hang above my head
What about the kid? It's time the kid got free
Everything will glow for you
You'll get punched for the love club
For the love club
There are fights for being my best friend
And the girls get their claws out
There's something about hanging out with the wicked kids
Take the pill make it too ill
The other day I forgot my old address
I'm sitting pretty on the throne,
There's nothing more I want
Except to be alone
Everything will glow for you
You'll get punched for the love club
For the love club
So drop your chin and take yourself back home
And roll out your maps and papers
Find out your hiding places again
The only problem that I got with the club
Is how you're severed from the people who watched you grow up
When you're a member go on your great adventure again
They will be waiting at the end
Everything will glow for you
You'll get punched for the love club
For the love club
I think this is about the experience of dating and relationships, specifically when we enter "the scene" of them.
Dating is almost like this cool club, this thing we can't wait to do once we are old enough. We see it on tv and and it's so glamorous love With shows like Gossip Girl, The OC, Degrassi (can't think of anymore current ones), we have this culture of young adults dating being so cool, we covet it. But, the reality of dating and relationships is not as easy; heartbreak doesn't have a cool montage. In this way, it's like a gang. We want to be in so bad, but then once we're in we realize all the cons, and all the ways we can get hurt.
I think that the title "The Love Club" is an allusion to the film "Fight Club". She compares love and relationships, in some ways, to a fight club where we sometimes let ourselves get beat up and hurt to stay in the club we wanted so badly to be in. The music video shows people throwing punches and play fighting with the air.
Perhaps, too, not just dating is to be considered as part of this "Love Club". The lyrics talk a lot about friendships,
"There are fights for being my best friend And the girls get their claws out There's something about hanging out with the wicked kids Take the pill make it too ill The other day I forgot my old address I'm sitting pretty on the throne There's nothing more I want Except to be alone"
Reminds me a lot of the fast paced gossipy backstabbing friendships we see in the shows I mentioned above. I think this type of relationship also ought to be considered a part of the "Love/Fight Club".
This song is not about her newfound celebrity status, because she wrote and released the EP about a year ago. Royals is on the same EP. She was internationally recognized about 9 months later, and didn't reveal who she even was until April/May.
She is very candid. All of her songs are about things in her life, which is extremely normal. She has stated this song is about the popular crowd in school. That's what she's referring to about getting "severed from those who watch you grow up."
There aren't a lot of hidden meanings in her songs, and she's pretty frank about that. She is a "what you see is what you get" kind of girl who wants to write about things that are real, and things that she connects to as a 16 year-old. For her, that's school, her social life, things she's reading, other artists and songs she listens to.
At Habber dash. You might not see this bus Yes it is totally about her joining the love club which is the music industry. Just because she wrote it before doesn't mean that fame wasn't going to happen for her. The lyrics "My mother's love is choking me." is like a cry out. Her song is like a application for employment or acceptance into the Hollywood society. Fame is at a cost in Hollywood believe it or not. If you don't know that there are sinister kinds of workings, magic and pagan worship behind the music scene than you need...
At Habber dash. You might not see this bus Yes it is totally about her joining the love club which is the music industry. Just because she wrote it before doesn't mean that fame wasn't going to happen for her. The lyrics "My mother's love is choking me." is like a cry out. Her song is like a application for employment or acceptance into the Hollywood society. Fame is at a cost in Hollywood believe it or not. If you don't know that there are sinister kinds of workings, magic and pagan worship behind the music scene than you need to open your eyes and do some research. Her very own EP artwork is a huge statement she is making. It is a serpent snake on her shoulders, her eye is brused as she talks about being pumched. This is a serious representation of the devil on her shoulders. The animal is a sacrifice and the promise is riches & fame like the jewelry & rings on her fingers. Oh my God I'm just seeing her album cover now & it is so crazy obvious. Her bruise represents torture meaning Monarch Programming aka MKultra. Don't tell me she doesn't look like she's under a spell or hypnosis in her music videos. Think of it this way, if the devil came to her shoulders and said that he'd give her all of the earths glory & riches if only she would acknowledge him and worship. Now check this out, Matthew 4:1-11 in the Bible talks about Satan tempting Jesus saying the same things, but Jesus knew who God was and His power is greater. I know this when I see it because her Love Club artwork is also a refference to Eve and the serpent in the Garden of Eden, when he tempts her and is successful. Knowing that go read the lyrics again, it makes perfect scary sense. Responses anyone?
I think the song is definitely about being in the "popular" clique and the pros and cons of being in it. "Be a part of the love club everything will glow for you you'll get punched for the love club" being the positive and negative things
In the first verse she talks about how before she was in the clique it was alright but with "the bitter salt of blood" meaning there were some negatives to it (maybe getting bullied)
I really like these lines in the second verse: "The other day I forgot my old address I'm sitting pretty on the throne there's nothing more I want except to be alone" Lorde is saying that she doesn't know who she is anymore and has changed a lot "the other day I forgot my old address". Then she says how even though she's really popular she doesn't like it and just wants to be alone.
I think the end of the song is about leaving the clique and going back to who you truly are. "So drop your chin and take yourself back home and roll out your maps and papers find out your hiding places again"
I believe the song is about a girl, Lorde maybe, but at the start it's like she's a complete outcast, a loser. "The card games and ease with the bitter salt of blood" this line is kind of hinting to she gets bullied "I'm sick of words that hang above my head What about the kid? It's time the kid got free" she's most likely labeled a loser and she's growing up and she doesn't want to be the "kid".
"Be a part of the love club Everything will glow for you" I imagine someone or something telling her be popular everything will be so much more easier for you.
"I joined the club and it's all on There are fights for being my best friend" She joined the popular clique and she's like the Regina George of the school, everyone loves her.
"The other day I forgot my old address I'm sitting pretty on the throne" She values appearance more than intelligence because everyone loves an air head.
"There's nothing more I want Except to be alone" She has everything she ever wanted but now she wants privacy and she's growing tired of "The Love Club".
"Your clothes are soaked and you don't know where to go So drop your chin and take yourself back home And roll out your maps and papers Find out your hiding places again" This is the in a way a self realization, she's standing alone in the rain figuring what she wants to do. She's finding herself and forgetting the caricature she had created finding her way to her old friends.
"The only problem that I got with the club Is how you're severed from the people who watched you grow up When you're a member go on your great adventure again They will be waiting at the end" The problem she had with popularity was leaving her old friends. She decides to go with her old friends "people who watched you grow up" and leave the popular clique behind. Her friends are waiting for her "they will be waiting at the end".
"Be a part of the love club Everything will glow for you You'll get punched for the love club For the love club" I see this last line as irony because her group of losers ended up being the true "Love Club".
Yeah, it's definitely about being in a cliche/the popular crowd. The first words are "I'm in a clique but I want out."
Why it's called the Love Club is because being part of the club means you get lots of "love" from your peers.
Also, it looks like things take a turn for the worse toward the end of the song when your clothes are soaked and you don't know where to go. So maybe the character in the song was ditched or stood up by her friends and its raining.
The whole concept reminds me of Mean Girls or the novel The Clique.
Even just hearing the music of the song, it sounds like you're being introduced to a secret, kickass party with awesome stuff but the people there are shallow and mean.
I think this song is about fame, and the "love club" is celebrity. Lorde has been making music since she was very young, but now she's getting internationally recognized, and I think this is one of the songs about her newfound celebrity status (one of the other ones being Royals, in which she talks a lot about the party lifestyle but says things like "we didn't come for money"). That's where the "there are fights for being my best friend" and "there's nothing more I want, except to be alone" things come in. The "wicked kids" are other celebs and forgetting her old address could be a very literal thing due to touring. Also "The only problem that I got with the club is how you're severed from the people who watched you grow up" seems like a problem faced by celebrities. Lastly, "everything will glow for you" is a comment on the easy lifestyle of those with fame and fortune. I am curious, however, as to the meaning behind "punched." The only double meaning I can think of is intoxicated, but I'm not sure/am still looking up New Zealand slang.
"Getting punched" reminded me of the "tapping" process in which Yale secret societies select their new members each year. (see Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collegiate_secret_societies_in_North_America#Yale_University) So maybe it's how you become a member of the love club. Or maybe it refers to an emotional injury incurred in the course of membership, as part of the Fight Club allusion that LovesMambo mentioned.
"Getting punched" reminded me of the "tapping" process in which Yale secret societies select their new members each year. (see Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collegiate_secret_societies_in_North_America#Yale_University) So maybe it's how you become a member of the love club. Or maybe it refers to an emotional injury incurred in the course of membership, as part of the Fight Club allusion that LovesMambo mentioned.
You know when you feel so alone in the middle of an existential crisis? I think this song could be about any kind of vice, an abusive relationship or even of joining a drug dealing violent gang. It could really be about anything, like when you trade everything for just a little bit of fun. Joining this "club" was fun when you first started doing it (maybe drugs, maybe when you started going out with somebody, maybe you started gambling and you were winning) thats why Lorde says :Be part of the love club, everything will glow for you" sounds inviting right?
but then everything turns around and it starts getting out of control (youve become an addict, the relationship turned out abusive and leeched you dry, you gambled all your money) and now youre hitting rock bottom even though you were even in "the throne" and have to become humble to get your family back and all your life like before.
It puts so much emphasis in "you'll get punched for the love club, for the love club" that at the end what the stupid metaphorical "love club" wasn't even what YOU wanted in the first place.
I think it's mostly about growing up. "What about the kid? It's time the kid got free."
I think that this song is depicting what it's like to be in the music industry and have people controlling your life. She seems to feel bored, restless, and weirded out by all of it. She's being put on a pedestal when all that she really wants is to do is make music as opposed to being part of a "clique"
I think that this song is about being in a clique, and you are apart of a strong group of friends which you then spend less time with your family because you are always with this clique referred to as 'the love club' because lorde wasn't famous when she wrote this I wouldn't think it related to her when she was famous.