Listening to this track, I feel like I am in the lobby of a plush hotel. Everything is clinically clean in unfamiliar surroundings. The music, though, brings an exotic atmosphere and the promise of something more, of secret meetings, of unspoken desires.
Why listening to this song should bring such images to mind might say more about me… but in reviewing the lyrics, I think there is a connection.
Here is a song about secrets, of dissatisfaction, of unspoken needs.
The singer sings of an unhealthy desire, for her lover not only to need her but to be addicted to her. It’s a big demand to make... and an unreasonable one.
The relationship seems ro be breaking down. There is resentment with a measure of self-delusion: “The hardest thing / I am too selfless to leave / You're the only thing that I need /
You should be addicted to me.”
Of course, the demand to love, to be addicted to another person, is anything but selfless.
As a listener, you find yourself in a sterile environment that still contains latent fantasies: just like that plush hotel lobby I first thought of.
