9 Crimes by Damien Rice?!
Question: I absolutly love that song and I was wondering what the lyrics mean. Anyone know?
Answers: I absolutly love that song and I was wondering what the lyrics mean. Anyone know?
I think it's about two people that are no longer in love.
I found this at songmeanings.com and think it describes what I'm trying to say a lot better.
I believe that both individuals are referring to the other person as their "gun.” They know that the potential for love is there and "loaded" in the gun, but it means nothing if it's not being expressed. They question how they are supposed to hold onto each other, when neither of them express their emotions and love (“If you don’t shoot it, how am I supposed to hold it?”). Although they ask if it’s “alright” to let each other go, I think it’s more of a sarcastic and bitter realization that it’s over. They’ve realized that the love between them was never enough. Asking if it’s “alright” to let the other person go is sarcastic in that it shouldn’t matter if it’s alright with the other person. They have come further to realize that these “small crimes” are exactly what they say they are – small. Usually, someone would use the excuse that they are in pain from the relationship ending and need some sort of distraction. Because the relationship never amounted to its full potential, they cannot use the excuse that they are in pain from the relationship ending. Perhaps pain is there, but it’s not from love being lost – it’s from wasting time on each other and waiting for something to amount from nothing. Even though he says it’s the wrong time and place to be cheating on her, it’s more of what it should feel like rather than what it does feel like. He’s found someone else to pull him through whatever he’s going through. Based on society's norms, he should feel guilty about it, but how can you feel guilty when a strong relationship was never there to begin with?
I love that song, my friend did a dance to it and it was beautiful.
I was actually listening to it when I saw this question, which was kind of funny, to me at least.
i love that song too! but not sure what it means i throught maybe being forced to do something...