>>55050426Screaming for more, you're not enough, screaming for more
I couldn't give you up ahh…
I am just so sorry
it's sort of like you've been in third person mode all this time, and this direct statement to the viewer is this forcible reminder that the collar story is a convenient fairy tale for the person in pain.
Shoulder my load, now yours to behold
Still not enough, you're not enough
Never enough, still I won't loosen my hold
Truly I'm so sorry
nerissa's version by contrast does lighten the shock imo, which is one reason i think the original still holds so much value, but in its absence there's a bit more room to feel the intimacy and vulnerability of the singer's single statement of remorse.
so, this has all been analyses of the differences between the songs. i think most of what the song is about is rather obvious, but i want to add my little kernel of interpretation on it. it's not just that the tightening collar is all of the pressure and expectations and pain she feels from a childhood of toxicity and possible abuse.
the collar is literally the rope that she finally hangs herself with. it's a "fairy tale" about a girl who seemed perfect and hung herself. it wasn't some rash decision of despair. it was the story of her entire life, when the collar that never loosened at all finally snapped her neck. this is why she apologizes, and why she's 'happy' at the end of the song.
Never enough, still I won't loosen my hold
Truly I'm so sorry
[Chorus]
Give me your love, all of your love
Give me your love, all you can conjure up
Give me your love, all of your love
'Til you go mad with ecstasy
I know it hurts, only gets worse
God how it hurts, soon you'll be craving the pain
This is my happiness now
Ahh
Is this my happiness now?
each chorus has slightly different lyrics to end them, and obviously there's a yandere vibe to the shift of focus to the listener. but i think there's a little more to it than that. by traumatizing the listener/her husband or boyfriend, she's giving him all her pain, and she's getting all the love and affection she could ever want in the form of the mourning she knows he'll do in her passing. her last happiness is that her neck is finally relaxed; it's completely snapped.
anyway, i am really into this song jailbirds. i can't stop listening to either version.
