Thursday, December 5, 2013

On lyrics

2/2/2007 1:04:00 PM

I hate it when a songwriter reveals what his/her lyrics "really" mean. It really kills everything for me.

I thought that "Every Breath You Take" was about state control - it was really about an obsessive man. I thought "With Or Without You" was about fatalistic love - it was about heroin. I thought "Louise" was about two lovers - it was about a bloke who couldn't get it through his head that his ex never loved him.

In my ideal world, neither the singer nor the listener really knows what the song is about. That's why the Smiths were so great.

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