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I liked the song, sad as usual, but I'd like to know what he means - the movies show such a happy time maybe his own family movies, but he was given nothing? It's kind of ambiguous. He has charm and why can't they see? He loves but is not loved back? How can that be unless he just can't accept it. How do you feel about this? Only listened once, so maybe I missed something.
First, thanks for watching and commenting. I can't possibly know what he means by all the different verses in the song, but many of them resonate with me and that is why I included it in the blog.
If the movies are of his home life as a youngster, perhaps he felt left out? I know that because of my introverted personality, sometimes I definitely want to be let into that circle of happiness/belonging but just don't know how, so I pretend I didn't want to "belong" anyway.
Maybe his family was generally happy, average, well-adjusted - while he was reclusive, bookish, and romantic about life. I feel much of my life too has been like this. Other people just get on with the business of existing, I plot and dream and idealize about it, and somehow, it never really arrives.
"So far from where I intended to go."
"So far from where I'm determined to go."
I think we can all feel a little of this in our own way. Not many have lived the life they dreamed, and many now have leagues to go before they shall ever reach any of their goals, original or revised.
"And you can tell I have never really loved... you can tell by the way I sleep all day."
"My love is as sharp as a needle in your eye. You must be such a fool to pass me by."
Again, this is only my interpretation, but I feel he (and I?) has a definition and standard of "love" that is much holier than many found in this modern world. To him it is ultimate love, and perhaps for that reason will always be sought for in vain. His love is virulent and potent, but if not reciprocated, fills him with depression ("sleep all day").
Many of my relationships turn on this point. Nic?
And his sense of "charm" may be gallant, androgynous, medieval, timeless, but just not the type of charm a woman or man looks for in the 21st century, which has started off as a singularly pragmatic, materialistic one, inhospitable to dreamers.
As to "no one gave [him] anything," I haven't have a clue what he was on about. He seems to believe he's earned everything he's gotten over the years single-handedly, through sheer determination, when obviously everyone who reaches his visibility has to be helped along by someone (Johnny Marr, for one).
I like the way the song has no chorus, but is a series of stanzas only, set apart by a lovely acoustic melody. A poem set to music, if you like.
Again, my thoughts only.
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