A Heartwell Ending
Apr. 24th, 2011 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maskitheclownSo, I was very upset by A Heartwell Ending's misogyny in lyrics for a while. But I'm slow on updating my mp4 player so on this trip two of their songs played while I was feeling shitty and drowsy. And I realized something. You know how Nick Cave's Murder Ballades are all about, y'know, murders? Well, Trust Us, We Lie, by A Heartwell Ending is well done if you listen to it like it was written from a point of view of a psycho killer holding (a) female victim/s.
Possibly after he stalked her for a while, or actually dated her once. But really, he was once in love with one woman, but she dumped him, and now he keeps taking these women who look like her or just glance in his direction randomly "obviously teasing him" and plays domesticity with them until they mess something up (aka don't behave like his loved ex did) and then he kills them and finds a new one.
I wrote down examples of creepy psycho-stalker-killer lyrics, but I only explained some of them, because I think most are self explanatory.
Bold are titles, Italic are lyrics, regular are my thoughts.
From Heart and Soul to Pen and Paper
All these bottled up emotions swell inside my head.
Some emo angst about how she'll never understand him and the winds blowing...
Don't leave me here while they're waiting right there on your porch
...
she stays quiet while they riot
broken bones is nothing like it
Clearly, his girlfriend has just dumped him and now there's a mess in his head he can't cope with.
Give Up to Give In
Tonight I'll be waiting, tonight I'll be looking
I'm taking my chances
I'm running with everything that i get from you
That I got from you
...
She screams she screams my name at night
She's oh so sexual
...
I see it in your face
I see right through your disguises
...
She got her fist clamped tight and her feet on the ground
She got her lips sewn shut she's not making a sound
...
One more minute to keep the record spinning i need this
We need this please don't let me go
...
Come on give me your hips
Come on give me your lips
I wanna pull you in so tight
He doesn't have the guts to go after her, but he's taking the emotions he had for her and transferring them to someone else, violently. Also, the songs keep switching between "you" and "she" and while it's obviously "you" the ex and "she" the current victim, I think they blur in his head more often than not. I'm guessing he rapes them sometimes, forces them quiet if he doesn't like their voice, that is, if it deviates too much from his ex's.
Trust Us, We Lie
i see a little bit of me inside of you
so i hate you hate you
despite that fact i'll try
to make you love me
...
she sleeps wit one eye opened
so she'll see me down the hall
...
she takes advantage of my shyness
though my kindness is just an act
that i will rarely ever display
...
what was the reason that you see him
then you call me on the phone at night
when you were all alone
...
open your window cuase here i come now
you're so distracting it could kill
If Criminal Minds has taught me anything, it's that psycho killers kill because they hate themselves but don't have the strength to end their own lives.
So, his victims often play along, trying to get to his good side, but it's not like he actually loves them, so it's a bit hard to find that side.
I think his ex probably calls him sometimes, and he talks to her and those conversations really piss him off, and he ends up killing his victims then, regardless of if they play along or not.
You're My Dream Catcher
You feel the poison in your veins
Just know its form the needles that we shared
...
So don't you tell me that I must be crazy
Look in the mirror can you see my face
Hear her cry by my side
a bit more about how she doesn't get his pain
He sees her cry, he tries to dry her eye before the tear drops
She turned her back despite the words he told her
She's on his mind despite the time despite the price that it cost
He gave away more, more than she paid for.
...
Your scent infects my sheets
...
Hear her cry by my side
Didn't think it would last this time
I'll try despite the lies
This one is clearly all about his victims playing his game and pretending to be in the scene but can't help crying and he's like "wtf are you crying, I'm giving you everything you want!" And if she calls him crazy he doesn't really like it.
Secrets (In Between The Sheets)
Believe me the pain subsides when it rains outside
I swear the screaming from the words you said "is this the way it should be"
...
She's screaming at the top of her lungs
Love it or leave it I kept the secret to myself
Between the sheets its stayed it never came out my mouth
...
Just know I'm the best thing despite what your friends think
...
Even if it didn't mean a thing to you,
you meant the world to me
...
She seems so perfect until she fades away
...
it's time to give in,
it's half passed seven lay down baby close your eyes
...
Stop cryin, I'm not lying,
I'll keep trying to make things right.
Yeah, basically, they look in his general direction and he thinks it's a love declaration. And if they make it through the scene, he kills them at half past seven on a rainy day, probably because that's when his ex left him. From the first song: "the wind was blowing restlessly those leaves upon my yard" so, autumn at least.
Memory
Shes got me lookin' past the sight
In itself, not a creepy line, but abusers and psycho killers like to blame the victims for what they do to them. "She made me kill her."
Now that you see that I'm on your mind.
Now that you realize you got no time.
But you give it up,
give it up,
give it up baby, without this, its no fun for me
He likes them to surrender.
She's the one that I hold in my heart.
I'm her memory.
...
Oh my god.
Look at, now she's done it again.
She's done the same to me
that she did to all her friends.
She told 'em then to leave me dead,
and didn't even give time to tend.
A simple "all women are whores who need to die" reasoning. Starts with one woman, and spreads around like fungus.
One More Song For Your Myspace Page
Tell me you're bleeding, tell me you need him,
Tell me anything but lies
...
Loved the way you looked inside your red dress,
why did you do this,
Tell me your secrets tell me tell me tell me your thoughts
Probably the least scary song on the album, except for the brain-onvasion. Apparently he's tired of her lies and won't even kill her for it. Or will he...
If looks could kill
If looks could kill you'd be a murderer,
maybe just a whore
...
I'm sorry for,
bleeding on your porch.
I know I know I know,
knew that it wasn't right,
but of course I tried
to keep my heart inside of my
chest but that fell through
that's why I'm here with her not you
...
with a flick of the tongue
and the shake in the hips
and the look in your eye
and the red in your lips
He's, let's say, in a bar, remembering his breakup and how humiliated he was and that's when this random woman looks at him. In reality, she's looking for her friends. In his head...
Because it's all in the "flirty" way she looked at him and she flicked her hair in his direction which means "fuck me now, you stud..." etc. What, that's not even psycho-reasoning, that's Cosmo.
There's Two 'R's' In Sorry But One 'R' In Whore
Raise your voice come on come on and scream it out
...
Shes staring at me, she stairs so sadly
She keeps pretending she's alright
...
Can you hear me breathing quiet tonight
Tough you hope for the worst
Moving in for the kiss
Why you turning away you want this
...
Hanging from the rooftops by her fingertips
Shes barely holding on
...
Do you know what I thought when I first saw you
Do you know I thought when I thought that I saw you lying with him
You always told me you'd be faithful
You always told me you'd be true
You always acted, you always acted different with me
Seriously, when he THOUGHT he saw her lying with him. I'm assuming he means one of the women he was stalking who he thought was his ex.
Also, his victims can only play so far, when he tries to kiss them, they don't always respond positively and that doesn't end well for them :(
Feelings Between The Lines
I know you miss my lips, come back, because they kissed your lips
I know you miss the places that I place my finger tips
I know you'll never find another lover love,
who will love you like I did
...
what did I do to you now?
why did I do this alone?
how was I to know.
I never said that I was breathing you in but I was,
I never knew that I was taking you in but I was,
I never meant to make you go away.
Ahh, no one will ever love you as much as I love you. The sentence that always makes me wanna punch someone in the face.
All Along
She cries herself to sleep at night
And no one's there to dry her eyes
She knows it won't be me
You know it won't be me
...
I see your eyes
Don't look down now
You try to talk but the words won't...
Come on now
I know you missed me all along
See, now the last song is confusing, because when he goes to try and make things work again with his ex, he clearly leaves his victim alone to starve to death, but the mirroring lyrics he puts for himself and his ex make me wonder, did she take him back, not knowing how crazy he is? Did he kill her too? Or is she possibly just as psycho and they are a match made hell and will now go on killing together... confusing.
"I see your eyes
Don't look down now
You try to talk but the words won't...
Come on now
I know you missed me all along
You see my eyes
I won't look down now
I'll try to talk but the words won't...
Come on now
I know
I missed you all along."
I kinda think he ends up killing her, but, idk.
Please note that two most used words on this album are "whore" and "scream."
Disclaimers:
I'm like, 90% certain they didn't intend the album to be this way.
None of this makes the album any better or easier to listen to.
I really think these lyrics retain the meaning even in context, but I took them out because the source is full of typos. If you wanna give them a read though, here they are.
Possibly after he stalked her for a while, or actually dated her once. But really, he was once in love with one woman, but she dumped him, and now he keeps taking these women who look like her or just glance in his direction randomly "obviously teasing him" and plays domesticity with them until they mess something up (aka don't behave like his loved ex did) and then he kills them and finds a new one.
I wrote down examples of creepy psycho-stalker-killer lyrics, but I only explained some of them, because I think most are self explanatory.
Bold are titles, Italic are lyrics, regular are my thoughts.
From Heart and Soul to Pen and Paper
All these bottled up emotions swell inside my head.
Some emo angst about how she'll never understand him and the winds blowing...
Don't leave me here while they're waiting right there on your porch
...
she stays quiet while they riot
broken bones is nothing like it
Clearly, his girlfriend has just dumped him and now there's a mess in his head he can't cope with.
Give Up to Give In
Tonight I'll be waiting, tonight I'll be looking
I'm taking my chances
I'm running with everything that i get from you
That I got from you
...
She screams she screams my name at night
She's oh so sexual
...
I see it in your face
I see right through your disguises
...
She got her fist clamped tight and her feet on the ground
She got her lips sewn shut she's not making a sound
...
One more minute to keep the record spinning i need this
We need this please don't let me go
...
Come on give me your hips
Come on give me your lips
I wanna pull you in so tight
He doesn't have the guts to go after her, but he's taking the emotions he had for her and transferring them to someone else, violently. Also, the songs keep switching between "you" and "she" and while it's obviously "you" the ex and "she" the current victim, I think they blur in his head more often than not. I'm guessing he rapes them sometimes, forces them quiet if he doesn't like their voice, that is, if it deviates too much from his ex's.
Trust Us, We Lie
i see a little bit of me inside of you
so i hate you hate you
despite that fact i'll try
to make you love me
...
she sleeps wit one eye opened
so she'll see me down the hall
...
she takes advantage of my shyness
though my kindness is just an act
that i will rarely ever display
...
what was the reason that you see him
then you call me on the phone at night
when you were all alone
...
open your window cuase here i come now
you're so distracting it could kill
If Criminal Minds has taught me anything, it's that psycho killers kill because they hate themselves but don't have the strength to end their own lives.
So, his victims often play along, trying to get to his good side, but it's not like he actually loves them, so it's a bit hard to find that side.
I think his ex probably calls him sometimes, and he talks to her and those conversations really piss him off, and he ends up killing his victims then, regardless of if they play along or not.
You're My Dream Catcher
You feel the poison in your veins
Just know its form the needles that we shared
...
So don't you tell me that I must be crazy
Look in the mirror can you see my face
Hear her cry by my side
a bit more about how she doesn't get his pain
He sees her cry, he tries to dry her eye before the tear drops
She turned her back despite the words he told her
She's on his mind despite the time despite the price that it cost
He gave away more, more than she paid for.
...
Your scent infects my sheets
...
Hear her cry by my side
Didn't think it would last this time
I'll try despite the lies
This one is clearly all about his victims playing his game and pretending to be in the scene but can't help crying and he's like "wtf are you crying, I'm giving you everything you want!" And if she calls him crazy he doesn't really like it.
Secrets (In Between The Sheets)
Believe me the pain subsides when it rains outside
I swear the screaming from the words you said "is this the way it should be"
...
She's screaming at the top of her lungs
Love it or leave it I kept the secret to myself
Between the sheets its stayed it never came out my mouth
...
Just know I'm the best thing despite what your friends think
...
Even if it didn't mean a thing to you,
you meant the world to me
...
She seems so perfect until she fades away
...
it's time to give in,
it's half passed seven lay down baby close your eyes
...
Stop cryin, I'm not lying,
I'll keep trying to make things right.
Yeah, basically, they look in his general direction and he thinks it's a love declaration. And if they make it through the scene, he kills them at half past seven on a rainy day, probably because that's when his ex left him. From the first song: "the wind was blowing restlessly those leaves upon my yard" so, autumn at least.
Memory
Shes got me lookin' past the sight
In itself, not a creepy line, but abusers and psycho killers like to blame the victims for what they do to them. "She made me kill her."
Now that you see that I'm on your mind.
Now that you realize you got no time.
But you give it up,
give it up,
give it up baby, without this, its no fun for me
He likes them to surrender.
She's the one that I hold in my heart.
I'm her memory.
...
Oh my god.
Look at, now she's done it again.
She's done the same to me
that she did to all her friends.
She told 'em then to leave me dead,
and didn't even give time to tend.
A simple "all women are whores who need to die" reasoning. Starts with one woman, and spreads around like fungus.
One More Song For Your Myspace Page
Tell me you're bleeding, tell me you need him,
Tell me anything but lies
...
Loved the way you looked inside your red dress,
why did you do this,
Tell me your secrets tell me tell me tell me your thoughts
Probably the least scary song on the album, except for the brain-onvasion. Apparently he's tired of her lies and won't even kill her for it. Or will he...
If looks could kill
If looks could kill you'd be a murderer,
maybe just a whore
...
I'm sorry for,
bleeding on your porch.
I know I know I know,
knew that it wasn't right,
but of course I tried
to keep my heart inside of my
chest but that fell through
that's why I'm here with her not you
...
with a flick of the tongue
and the shake in the hips
and the look in your eye
and the red in your lips
He's, let's say, in a bar, remembering his breakup and how humiliated he was and that's when this random woman looks at him. In reality, she's looking for her friends. In his head...
Because it's all in the "flirty" way she looked at him and she flicked her hair in his direction which means "fuck me now, you stud..." etc. What, that's not even psycho-reasoning, that's Cosmo.
There's Two 'R's' In Sorry But One 'R' In Whore
Raise your voice come on come on and scream it out
...
Shes staring at me, she stairs so sadly
She keeps pretending she's alright
...
Can you hear me breathing quiet tonight
Tough you hope for the worst
Moving in for the kiss
Why you turning away you want this
...
Hanging from the rooftops by her fingertips
Shes barely holding on
...
Do you know what I thought when I first saw you
Do you know I thought when I thought that I saw you lying with him
You always told me you'd be faithful
You always told me you'd be true
You always acted, you always acted different with me
Seriously, when he THOUGHT he saw her lying with him. I'm assuming he means one of the women he was stalking who he thought was his ex.
Also, his victims can only play so far, when he tries to kiss them, they don't always respond positively and that doesn't end well for them :(
Feelings Between The Lines
I know you miss my lips, come back, because they kissed your lips
I know you miss the places that I place my finger tips
I know you'll never find another lover love,
who will love you like I did
...
what did I do to you now?
why did I do this alone?
how was I to know.
I never said that I was breathing you in but I was,
I never knew that I was taking you in but I was,
I never meant to make you go away.
Ahh, no one will ever love you as much as I love you. The sentence that always makes me wanna punch someone in the face.
All Along
She cries herself to sleep at night
And no one's there to dry her eyes
She knows it won't be me
You know it won't be me
...
I see your eyes
Don't look down now
You try to talk but the words won't...
Come on now
I know you missed me all along
See, now the last song is confusing, because when he goes to try and make things work again with his ex, he clearly leaves his victim alone to starve to death, but the mirroring lyrics he puts for himself and his ex make me wonder, did she take him back, not knowing how crazy he is? Did he kill her too? Or is she possibly just as psycho and they are a match made hell and will now go on killing together... confusing.
"I see your eyes
Don't look down now
You try to talk but the words won't...
Come on now
I know you missed me all along
You see my eyes
I won't look down now
I'll try to talk but the words won't...
Come on now
I know
I missed you all along."
I kinda think he ends up killing her, but, idk.
Please note that two most used words on this album are "whore" and "scream."
Disclaimers:
I'm like, 90% certain they didn't intend the album to be this way.
None of this makes the album any better or easier to listen to.
I really think these lyrics retain the meaning even in context, but I took them out because the source is full of typos. If you wanna give them a read though, here they are.
