I have been thoroughly obsessed with this song since I heard it and watched the video. It’s poppy and gothy and synthy and there’s some Blondie in there and lots of other things I can’t put my finger on. Love.
It’s the song of a girl who didn’t want to fall in love but did anyway, who is pushing and pulling at once; every one of her “stay away“‘s says exactly the opposite. She blames her lover but also knows she did this to herself—“Licking up the blood yeah I made this decision”.
That’s true of all the best sad love songs, isn’t it? We know, really, that it’s not as if we were or are powerless, we run over in our heads a list of the things we could have done differently; we go through waves of magical thinking that alternately give us all the power and with it all the blame and then we come crashing down to earth knowing that no matter what we could have done or not done, things are what they are right now.
Is she asking the person who broke her heart to stay away literally, or is she trying to sing them out of her head?
