I think, like others, that "born to die," is meant to mean that their relationship was doomed from the beginning. I think she has realized what she wanted from a relationship, and it's not this guy hence the "lost but now I am found" verse. But it is hard for her to accept it, perhaps because of all the fun times they've had, and so the whole song is coming from a very contemplative standpoint. In the chorus, I think she's asking him not to talk seriously with her about their relationship because it's too depressing don't make me sad, don't make me cry.
She wants it to stay simple, she doesn't want to think about the fact that it probably won't work out keep making me laugh, let's go get high. I think the "love is not enough" line suggests what she's realized, that no matter how strongly they feel about each other it just won't work out. My Interpretation I agree with the majority of the people here who say it's about a doomed relationship. They knew from the beginning that it couldn't last forever You and I - we were born to die Sometimes love is not enough.
I think the first stanza, it shows that she's wavering and wants to go back to him Feet don't fail me now , and she hopes to God that she's made the right decision.
And at the end of her life, she hopes to get him back, where perhaps other life concerns are not a priority, e. In the second stanza, it seems she's talking about what life is like after she's left him.
She's lonely and wondering if she's made a mistake, and possibly she wants him back, because everything is so unfamiliar without him Can you make it feel like home if I tell you you're mine? Maybe a projection of what would happen if they stayed together?
Consumed in their dangerous lust? The male is not unscathed. You can see he's also bleeding, but still alive. I don't know what that means.
Maybe he's less invested in the relationship. It may also reference the couple's sexual chemistry "Le petit mort" as well as death. I do think at some point she feels lonely, hence the huge church she's apparently living in all by herself. But could the church mean something bigger.. My Interpretation The song also has a darker meaning, clarified by the video. As several comments have noted, this is a doomed love, a relatively innocent girl with a dark lover. This trope is also in the song Video Games, and here is underscored by the references to "insane girls," "wild side," and in the video, the clean-cut girl with the heavily-tattooed smoking guy with a street-rod type of car it looks like a vintage Mustang or a Trans-Am.
She has hoped that the doomed love might be redeemed at the "gates", the Pearly Gates , where she hoped to find out that upon death her lover is hers; however, she is in a relatively passive state not as passionate as in life , alone Talking Heads: "heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
The American flag at the beginning and the car perhaps such this is a particularly American kind of story. Amazing song, amazing artist! Artists - L. Born to Die is found on the album Born to Die. Rate These Lyrics. We do not have any tags for Born to Die lyrics.
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Anthropological Perspectives on Death. Skip to content. HOME the process of death cadaver grief and mourning ritual Uncategorized. We are all born to die. Posted on September 16, by Mallika Manyapu 2 Comments. Thus the song begins with Lana obviously being single. At this time she is apparently contemplating whether or not to get romantically involved with the addressee.
But she decides to do so while simultaneously acknowledging the risk as detailed above. And it has been postulated that she is speaking to her life in general and not specifically this romance , which could very well be true.
But the underlying sentiment is that via the relationship she is now undergoing with the addressee, she has achieved a sense of relief from these matters.
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