I used to be lunatic from the gracious days
I used to be woebegone and so restless nights
My aching heart would bleed for you to see
Oh but now...
(I don't find myself bouncing home whistling buttonhole tunes to make me cry)
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me
No more "I love you's"
Changes are shifting outside the word
(The lover speaks about the monsters) [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/a/annie_lennox/no_more_i_love_yous.html ]
I used to have demons in my room at night
Desire, despair, desire... SOOO MANY MONSTERS!
Oh but now...
(I don't find myself bouncing home whistling buttonhole tunes to make me cry)
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me in silence
No more "I love you's"
Changes are shifting outside the word
(They were being really crazy
They were on the come.
And you know what mummy?
Everybody was being really crazy.
Uh huh. The monsters are crazy.
There are monsters outside.)
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me in silence
No more "I love you's"
Changes are shifting outside the word
Outside the word
I am really thankful for this song today. Coming into it's meaning for me, is a plethora of possibilities. Maybe when you feel like you are on your last go-around with life, you have exhausted "i love you" to the point of dissappearance. And in that moment, you accept that you have given so much love, that perhaps you have no more love to give. You have already played saint, and now it is time to live life for your own. I connect with this, because i feel woebegone and crazy a lot of the time. Desire, despair, desire... These are like the heads of medusa! Those things that we don't want to face or talk about, the things that eat at our psyche in the night. She is not seeking to console herself or to tell her self another story. She accepts that perhaps "i love you" is just a word, and that there are so many things beyond "i love you"... When it usually carries so much weight to say it, maybe by not saying it anymore, it's not a sugarcoat over life's true raw experiences. The lover speaks about the monsters- maybe this is when you are in partnership, and your partner is able to talk about the things that are really going on in their mind- all the monsters that we daily face. There is so much of a rebellious attitude with these song lyrics, because rather than expanding on the viewpoint of love, she expands on the viewpoint of the unbeaten path- the place we must face eventually, because it is my exploring our inner darkness that we can find the light of revelation. It inspires changes through it's message.