Crying in the taxi
He don't wanna know me
Says he made the big mistake
Of dancing in my storm
Says it was poison
Into the arms of the girl that I love
The only love I haven't screwed up
She's so hard to please
But she's a forest fire
I do my best to meet her demands
Play it romance, we slow dance
In the living room, but all that is strange
It would seem
Is one girl swaying alone
Stroking her cheek
You're a liability
You're a little much for me"
So they pull back, make other plans
I understand, I'm a liability
Get you wild, make you leave
I'm a little much for
E-a-na-na-na, everyone
That people enjoy
'Til all of the tricks don't work anymore
And then they are bored of me
I know that it's exciting
Running through the night, but
Every perfect summer's
Eating me alive until you're gone
Better on my own
You're a liability
You're a little much for me"
So they pull back, make other plans
I understand, I'm a liability
Get you wild, make you leave
I'm a little much for
E-a-na-na-na, everyone
Disappear into the sun
You're all gonna watch me
Disappear into the sun
She's talking about a guy, who was attracted to her, they had fun. She opened up, showed vulnerability, wanted commitment, had a little bit of baggage so he bolted and it ended. Simple. She writes great lyrics...so insightful for a young person.
@fra281139 Really? I interpreted something else entirely lol. Wow. Crazy how that works, huh? I see a girl that is fucked up. Someone that always messes things up - somehow, someway, she's a liability. She lies. She cheats. She does everything she possibly can do to always self-sabotage anything good in her life. At first people really like that she is wild and crazy, but after awhile they simply get sick of her antics.
@fra281139 Really? I interpreted something else entirely lol. Wow. Crazy how that works, huh? I see a girl that is fucked up. Someone that always messes things up - somehow, someway, she's a liability. She lies. She cheats. She does everything she possibly can do to always self-sabotage anything good in her life. At first people really like that she is wild and crazy, but after awhile they simply get sick of her antics.
"Says he made the big mistake of dancing in my storm"
"Says he made the big mistake of dancing in my storm"
Storm = her messy mess of a life and her personality.
Storm = her messy mess of a life and her personality.
She has a...
She has a girl at home, that she really connects with - but she was out trying to find someone else??!
So she goes home but, it turns out, there is no girl. Its just someone she dreamed up in her head - someone she wishes she could have if she wasn't so messed up.
"In the living room, but all that a stranger would see Is one girl swaying alone Stroking her cheek"
Swaying alone? This supposed girl she is dancing with in the living room? She doesn't exist in real life. Or maybe she DID at once exist, but not anymore. She's gone.
So essentially, I relate to this, even though I shouldn't. I'm not a fuck up on purpose. But I can see where being a fuck up sucks. You lose friends, people don't want to hang out with you anymore, your gf leaves you - the one that did exist and the one you really loved. Eh. Fucking up sucks.
So. That is what the song makes me feel, see, and interpret.
@askingtoomuch, I can't see that here. I don't think Lorde is the type of character who would run around cheating on her partner, and the "liability" comes from the fact that emotionally, perhaps, she was a burden. Her feelings were intense, and her intensity was driving love away. She's always claimed to have an introverted person, an observer of society, not really a participant...a wallflower. She said in a 60 Minutes interview that while the song was written about her fame being too much of a responsibility, she felt most people could relate to feeling a little bit too much...
@askingtoomuch, I can't see that here. I don't think Lorde is the type of character who would run around cheating on her partner, and the "liability" comes from the fact that emotionally, perhaps, she was a burden. Her feelings were intense, and her intensity was driving love away. She's always claimed to have an introverted person, an observer of society, not really a participant...a wallflower. She said in a 60 Minutes interview that while the song was written about her fame being too much of a responsibility, she felt most people could relate to feeling a little bit too much for somebody at some stage of their life.
@fra281139 lol.
@fra281139 lol.
A) I didn't realize a singers songs HAD to be about their real life sarcasm
A) I didn't realize a singers songs HAD to be about their real life sarcasm
B) I looked up your "interpretation" and it was literally what Lorde said in an interview. So uhm, how about you don't copy her version and come up with your own.
B) I looked up your "interpretation" and it was literally what Lorde said in an interview. So uhm, how about you don't copy her version and come up with your own.
lol. What a dork. And then you shoot mine down? At least it was original and I didn't copy someone else's idea. Hahaha
lol. What a dork. And then you shoot mine down? At least it was original and I didn't copy someone else's idea. Hahaha
Lorde is talking about herself and her past relationships and what people have said to her presumably before ending a relationship with her: she's too much to handle, she's too wild, and this comes as no surprise when her newest love interest cuts ties with her, she's heard it all before. This guy is breaking up with her for the same reason everyone does and she just has to learn how to love herself, which is the girl she sings about in the first verse; even if no one else loves her, she'll always have herself.