Hat-tip: Songfacts. Here are a couple pictures of the British-themed birthplace in case you're not going to make the pilgrimage. The lead-guitarist, Dave Keuning, originally composed the lyrics before meeting Flowers. After they started playing together, Flowers wrote more lyrics and the chorus.
Keuning actually plays bass in the early demo. Brightside" was written and recorded for the first time. Brandon Flowers discussed a bit of the song's history with NME in We must've written it around the end of Dave and I were writing a ton of songs at the time, trying to figure out what it was that made us tick.
I remember us going into the Virgin Megastore to buy The Strokes' Is This It on the day it came out and, when we put it on in the car, that record just sounded so perfect. I got so depressed after that, we threw away everything and the only song that made the cut and remained was 'Mr. He continued: "It came from this cassette of ideas that Dave gave me, and one of them was the 'Mr. Loquacity Brandon flowers said in an interview that the sing is based off real llife events of him getting cheated on blu on June 30, General Comment Well, now that you mention it it -could- maybe be about a prostitute, but that's not the way i personally interpret the song.
The way i see it is My main interpretation comes in when it starts to talk about this other man that the woman is spending time with. Now, there are one of two situations this guy is in. However, because he's fallen in love with him, he's angry and upset because he knows that she doesnt want him, and is just going off with 'the next guy on the list'. He imagines "and it's all in my head" these other guys getting with her, and it starts "taking control" of his head; that's all he can think about.
Nice one. I think the 'prostitute' idea came from the Moulin Rouge themed video. He could just have been jealous at a flirtatious girlfriend during the chorus DavidArmitage on January 18, Jupp, two interpretations which are both kinda likely. The one I had was kind of similar to your second, however i've never thought of it as being his paraoia.
Haven't really ackowledged the "and it's all in my head"-part, I think. I've always just seen it as him being cheated on, without being able to leave the relationship cause he loves her too much. But so yeah, nice one, think you pinned it down quite well. Ironic that this is such a great partysong, isn't it? Gotta add something..
Unless you say something extremely retarded, theres no "wrong" interpretations. Or should I say, very few. That's the beauty of music : brighteyessucks on October 23, Totally agree with you!! At 1st the "coming out of my cage Thanks so much for interpreting the song like this, it opened my eyes and now i can't hear the song without thinking of it like this! I can relate to the feelings, paranoia, and insecurities of the narrator. In the past I have been in a similar place in my life.
It sucked. A lot. And the worst thing is: the imaginings were just that: all in my head. But at the time, they were quite intense and affected me a lot. And to the poster who said "people get jealous because they are vulnerable", I am persuaded that is absolutely true. Does it not make more sense that the kiss that he refers to, is actually the kiss where she cheats on him.
All paranoia etc comes from that kiss she had with another guy, and how it seems odd that she only a kissed him yet id had such a profound effect on him coz he was so in love MaxQQQ I'm in the exact spot your 2 is right now. I started singing this song randomly in the shower today and I guess it was a strange coincidence that I decided to look up what this song really meant.
Now I know where I really am and who I am. I'm Mr. MaxQQQ When he says "it starts with a kiss", could he have walked in on her, sees her give a brief kiss to someone else and nothing more but then his imagination takes off? Derf on May 23, General Comment I think you have to put the song in the same order of the record to kind of get a full grasp.
The song before it on the cd is Jenny Was a Friend of Mine. Basically, he commited a crime, assualt or manslaughter, against this girl Jenny. He is being questioned by the cops, etc, etc. He was doing fine in jail. He discovers that the girl, Jenny, is now involved with someone else. I dont take "Started out with a kiss" to be between him and the girl. I think that has to do with the girl Jenny kissing someother guy and from there they have fallen for each other.
Now, destiny is calling him and he has to move on. But he cant and I think thats why the whole song is repeated 3 times. Just my take.. I'm afraid not Bourbon is about killing Jenny, Midnight Show is the killer hiding the body, and Friend of Mine shows the thoughts of the killer as he's being interrogated about her death in police custody.
This song has nothing to do with Jenny, the album isn't really a continuous narrative : Sabazius on December 18, Sabazius: What if this is after he gets out of jail or maybe he was never actually convicted and keeps having flashbacks about what made him kill Jenny?
Maybe that he got jealous when he saw her at the movies Midnight Show kissing another guy and got thrown into all these images of what she could have done, and that somehow made him snap and kill her. Bourbon could be what he was kind of rambling to her as he killed her basically saying 'I would have been more than happy to drink alone, but you had to waltz in and ruin everything, and now look what happened.
That would explain the somewhat jumbled feeling of the song, and still makes sense in the sceme of things. My Interpretation I think this song is about a flirty girl who keeps sending him mixed signals. How the 18yo anti-pop star's bass-heavy, bedroom-made oddity made Hottest history and conquered the music world.
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