OH MY GOD THAT VIDEO, I'M GOING TO CRY. I never saw that before. My God. See, that song has always been weird to me. I was initially leaning towards it being about Jamie because I didn't like to think of her having such genuine feelings for Jack, the kind that would lead to a song like that, but it still didn't quite add up because that would involve her basically telling Jamie her true feelings in a really obvious/final way. So. Probably about Jack. I don't know why I don't like that, I have such weird issues with that pairing. I guess it's just very clear to me that his feelings were never as strong as hers, whereas I believe Jamie's ARE and he's just in denial of them.
Didn't Jamie write Baby Says? Which...actually, adds a whole extra level of INTERESTING to the lyrics that I never thought about before. I never thought of the 'she' being Alison, and it didn't make sense for it to be Kate, and suddenly they make a whole load of sense. HOW INTERESTING IS THE IDEA OF JAMIE WRITING A SONG ABOUT ALISON AND JACK. I wonder who has the 'silver curls' though, that's always bugged me.
Oooh, I never really analysed You Don't Own The Road either, and that totally makes sense. Especially that line. It is like the whole song is her saying she's gonna recover from this, and almost like she's saying he's so conceited that he probably thinks everything she does is for him or because of him, and it's NOT, you know?
I actually have a document on my computer with the tracklisting of Blood Pressures and who wrote what, because I wanted to keep track of it, and the only songs I don't know about are Heart Is A Beating Drum, Nail In My Coffin, and Damned If She Do. Two of those are Alison's and one is Jamie's (Jamie wrote six altogether and she wrote five, so it works out that way). I think Nail In My Coffin is probably an Alison one because it sounds like she's saying she can't go through what she went through with Jamie all over again with Jack.
Man, now I'm just feverishly reading all the lyrics with a new perspective, sorry. I was leaning towards Jamie for Heart Is A Beating Drum and it totally sounds like another song directed at Alison and Jack now - I always thought the 'all the noise and hot crossed fangs you, you got in you' sounded like a reference to the changes in her voice since TDW which he's talked about before. And then 'send your love on a rampage/give her everything you've got/and when you come to hate her/show her more than just a spark' could be directed at Jack? And then references to feeling like she's been there so many times before - like he recognises the pattern. And Damned If She Do reads like Alison analyzing herself in the third person again, I think.
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Didn't Jamie write Baby Says? Which...actually, adds a whole extra level of INTERESTING to the lyrics that I never thought about before. I never thought of the 'she' being Alison, and it didn't make sense for it to be Kate, and suddenly they make a whole load of sense. HOW INTERESTING IS THE IDEA OF JAMIE WRITING A SONG ABOUT ALISON AND JACK. I wonder who has the 'silver curls' though, that's always bugged me.
Oooh, I never really analysed You Don't Own The Road either, and that totally makes sense. Especially that line. It is like the whole song is her saying she's gonna recover from this, and almost like she's saying he's so conceited that he probably thinks everything she does is for him or because of him, and it's NOT, you know?
I actually have a document on my computer with the tracklisting of Blood Pressures and who wrote what, because I wanted to keep track of it, and the only songs I don't know about are Heart Is A Beating Drum, Nail In My Coffin, and Damned If She Do. Two of those are Alison's and one is Jamie's (Jamie wrote six altogether and she wrote five, so it works out that way). I think Nail In My Coffin is probably an Alison one because it sounds like she's saying she can't go through what she went through with Jamie all over again with Jack.
Man, now I'm just feverishly reading all the lyrics with a new perspective, sorry. I was leaning towards Jamie for Heart Is A Beating Drum and it totally sounds like another song directed at Alison and Jack now - I always thought the 'all the noise and hot crossed fangs you, you got in you' sounded like a reference to the changes in her voice since TDW which he's talked about before. And then 'send your love on a rampage/give her everything you've got/and when you come to hate her/show her more than just a spark' could be directed at Jack? And then references to feeling like she's been there so many times before - like he recognises the pattern. And Damned If She Do reads like Alison analyzing herself in the third person again, I think.