Don't forget the lyrics!

Today I am not going to speak badly of any lyrics, today I would like to talk about a very emotional song called Too close for comfort, played and written by Mcfly. Mcfly is a pop rock band that I like because their style is different from other pop bands, at least that's what I think, but it has been called "new pop", and sometimes they have been compared to The Beatles. Mcfly found fame in 2004, and they are from London, United Kingdom. That makes a change because so far I have only talk about North American artists.

Too close for comfort is on their second album, Wonderland, realised on 2005. The lyrics talk about a relationship that is over, because the writter apparently made mistakes and hurt the other person. But he is saying he's sorry about it. But this other person is leaving the writter, no matter how sorry the writter is, and seems like there is nothing to do.

"I never meant the things I said

To make you cry can I say I'm sorry
It's hard to forget and yes I regret
All these mistakes

I don't know why you're leaving me
But I know you must have your reasons
There's tears in your eyes I watch as you cry
But it's getting late"

The next verse is the chorus, in which the writter asks his lover if he was inviding her (or his, we don't know, so let's suppose it is a heterosexual couple) privacy, or if there was something that he was about to discover. I don't really understand the meaning of this verse, but I think that he is sad that when he was driving her home he got too close to her and she felt in discomfort. (?) I am not sure if the writter meant to say that tough...

"Was I invading in on your secrets?
Was I too close for comfort?
You're pushing me out
When I wanted in
What was I just about to discover?
I got too close for comfort
driving you home
Guess I'll never know"

And then the song follows like this:

All this time you've been telling me lies
Hidden in bags that are under your eyes
And when I asked you I knew I was right

I don't know if this is said by the girl, or if the writter was hurt too...

So as you can see, sometimes lyrics aren't very clear to the person who listens to the song (and much more if the song is in English and English is not your mother tongue...). The only thing we can do is to interpret the message as we think it could be or what the writter could be thinking in the moment he wrote the song. Or we can simply interpret it with our own situation, background and problems, as I often do.

What is true is that relationships are very complicated, so are songs about love and relationships that are over. Each couple has a different story and if you write a song about yours maybe it won't be understood by someone else.

Well, leaving that far behind, this is a good song that I recommend to listen to if you like love songs( especially if you feel blue, or maybe not... you will cry) because this one is very emotional, as I said before, and the music is slow and nice but at the same time has some rock guitars.


Lyrics and song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATk30xzAsRw