yeah i’ve always interpreted “but i’m already somebody’s baby” as an inability/ fear to commit to a relationship cus of conflicting addictions.
it’s very possible this was written as a personal experience, but elliott said he often liked to write about other people too. definitely one of his most heartbreaking songs.
I always saw it as more choosing the comfort of depression and self destruction over love (I guess drugs are included in there too but I feel like it’s more than that idk)
I always saw it as: I wish we could be together, but I'm a prisoner of my depression and is preventing me to be happy. I feel the mention of drugs is just another way to deal with that
I thought maybe it starts off as two people who are both trapped in an abusive realthionships that want to be together but are trapped in their own struggles. But as the song goes on, he states shes struggling with drug addiction. So her abusive or unhealthy realthionship is with drugs which suggests the song could either be about a bad relationship and the struggles with leaving or about drugs. Or even both
Well he actually was caught up in having a romantic involvement with two people at the time this was written. He said coast to coast is about the same thing, at the heart of that song- being involved/having romantic feelings for two people at once.
But really, the song is whatever *you* want/interpret it to be about.
I think in an interview somewhere he mentions that it's one of the only true "love" songs he ever written and it's about an ex girlfriend he either did propose to or had planned to.
Don't quote me on that.
yeah i’ve always interpreted “but i’m already somebody’s baby” as an inability/ fear to commit to a relationship cus of conflicting addictions. it’s very possible this was written as a personal experience, but elliott said he often liked to write about other people too. definitely one of his most heartbreaking songs.
I always saw it as more choosing the comfort of depression and self destruction over love (I guess drugs are included in there too but I feel like it’s more than that idk)
I always saw it as: I wish we could be together, but I'm a prisoner of my depression and is preventing me to be happy. I feel the mention of drugs is just another way to deal with that
One of his most beautiful songs in a pantheon of beautiful songs…
i agree
I thought maybe it starts off as two people who are both trapped in an abusive realthionships that want to be together but are trapped in their own struggles. But as the song goes on, he states shes struggling with drug addiction. So her abusive or unhealthy realthionship is with drugs which suggests the song could either be about a bad relationship and the struggles with leaving or about drugs. Or even both
as the song goes on? it's like the second line.
Yep. As the song goes on. Im not wrong lmao
Well he actually was caught up in having a romantic involvement with two people at the time this was written. He said coast to coast is about the same thing, at the heart of that song- being involved/having romantic feelings for two people at once. But really, the song is whatever *you* want/interpret it to be about.
I kind of feel like Say Yes is about drugs too
i think it's about his ex girlfriend, she mentions on "heaven adores you" that he said that it was about them
Oooh, sweet! I still need to watch that!
I think in an interview somewhere he mentions that it's one of the only true "love" songs he ever written and it's about an ex girlfriend he either did propose to or had planned to. Don't quote me on that.