{"id":3065,"date":"2009-07-28T18:30:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T10:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=3065"},"modified":"2009-07-28T22:32:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T14:32:04","slug":"when-you-sing-with-so-much-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/07\/when-you-sing-with-so-much-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Sing with So Much Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Am recalling some of the songs I grew up with… Above is the video for ‘You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk’ (from the album ‘Nightlife’) – a poignant song on the problem of alcoholism, which seems to make people toggle between love and hate for their victims, which confuses loved ones as to whether the alcoholics really care or not.<\/span> It’s one of the least pop of Pet Shop Boys’ songs and one of their most meaningful. Actually, their slow songs have always been ‘quite something’. I think everyone who knows an alcoholic should In the video, we see a sea of people lost in wild partying, before being lost in a drunken stupor. It’s an alternating ritual for some I suppose – both equally unreal – because they are states of mindfulness lost. Below are the most emotional yet rational lines from the song, I would think. (See full lyrics below.)<\/p>\n

What’s the meaning
\nWhen you speak with so much feeling?
\nIs it over when you’re sober?
\nIs it junk?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reminds me of how we usually pay attention to some songs due to their catchy melodies, or even their choruses. But when we look deeper into the lyrics, sometimes, it’s much ado about nothing much. Sometimes, we get intoxicated by music too, not just alcohol. The songs we let ourselves be haunted by – they form the soundtracks of our lives. Which haunt you? What’s the meaning, when we sing<\/strong> with so much feeling? Is it over when we’re sober? Is it junk?<\/span> I hope not. May music and such help align us to truth and goodness, instead of mere fantasy. Just as True Love has to be mindful (and calm), expression of it too has to be mindful. Don’t tell your loved ones you care only when you’re drunk, when you’re choked with high emotions only for a while. Show it with your sober everyday actions too. True Love is sober, it is sobering. It is not intoxicated, not intoxicating. It is not confused, not confusing. It is being understanding, it is the heart of understanding itself.<\/p>\n

You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk<\/strong><\/p>\n

What a performance tonight
\nShould I react or turn off the light?
\nLooks like you’re picking a fight
\nin a blurring of wrong and right
\nBut how your mood changes
\nYou’re a devil, now an angel
\nSuddenly subtle and solemn and silent as a monk
\nYou only tell me you love me when you’re drunk<\/p>\n

It’s better than nothing, I suppose
\nsome doors have opened, others closed
\nbut I couldn’t see you exposed
\nto the horrors behind some of those
\nSomebody said: listen
\ndon’t you know what you’re missing?
\nYou should be kissing him
\ninstead of dissing him like a punk
\nBut you only tell me you love me when you’re drunk
\nYou only tell me you love me when you’re drunk<\/p>\n

All of my friends keep asking me
\nWhy, oh, why
\ndo you not say goodbye?
\nIf you don’t even try
\nyou’ll be sunk
\n’cause you only tell me you love me when you’re drunk<\/p>\n

What’s the meaning
\nwhen you speak with so much feeling?
\nIs it over when you’re sober?
\nIs it junk?
\nYou only tell me you love me when you’re drunk
\nYou only tell me you love me when you’re drunk<\/p>\n

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