VintagePunk
Blue Crack Distributor
Ostensibly, this song, and the whole album, to some degree, is about the break up of Edge's marriage. I have my own theories about that, but I'll leave that for another time. Anyway, the song is clearly about a relationship that's in trouble. Parts of the song speak in present tense, and those are mostly negative aspects of the relationship and the people involved. Other parts speak in past tense, and are more positive remembrances of the relationship. In particular, these are the lines that have had me puzzled for years now:
I remember when we could sleep on stones
Now we lie together in whispers and moans
The first line says to me that he can remember when they could sleep on stones, meaning their love was strong enough to withstand adversity - even sleeping on stones was bearable, because they had each other. The next line is the one that gets me. Now we lie together in whispers and moans - in keeping with the present bad/past good theme, this line should connote something negative, and I'm sure it does, I'm just missing it. But on the surface, lying together in whispers and moans doesn't sound bad at all! In fact, it sounds very sexual and intimate. I was discussing this with someone recently, and they pointed out that perhaps "lie together" doesn't mean what I think it means, that it could mean "lie" as in being dishonest.
Thoughts? What do you guys get from the song, and these lines specifically?
I remember when we could sleep on stones
Now we lie together in whispers and moans
The first line says to me that he can remember when they could sleep on stones, meaning their love was strong enough to withstand adversity - even sleeping on stones was bearable, because they had each other. The next line is the one that gets me. Now we lie together in whispers and moans - in keeping with the present bad/past good theme, this line should connote something negative, and I'm sure it does, I'm just missing it. But on the surface, lying together in whispers and moans doesn't sound bad at all! In fact, it sounds very sexual and intimate. I was discussing this with someone recently, and they pointed out that perhaps "lie together" doesn't mean what I think it means, that it could mean "lie" as in being dishonest.
Thoughts? What do you guys get from the song, and these lines specifically?