tisdag 11 september 2012

Låt om identitet

Foo fighters - The pretender

Keep you in the dark
You know they all pretend
Keep you in the dark
And so it all began

Send in your skeletons
Sing as their bones go marching in, again
The need you buried deep
The secrets that you keep are ever ready
Are you ready?
I'm finished making sense
Done pleading ignorance
That whole defense

Spinning infinity, boy
The wheel is spinning me
It's never-ending, never-ending
Same old story

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?

In time our soul untold
I'm just another soul for sale, oh well
The page is out of print
We are not permanent
We're temporary, temporary
Same old story

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?
What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?

I'm the voice inside your head
You refuse to hear
I'm the face that you have to face
Mirrored in your stare
I'm what's left, I'm what's right
I'm the enemy
I'm the hand that will take you down
Bring you to your knees

So who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?

Keep you in the dark
You know they all pretend

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?

What if I say I'm not like the others?
(Keep you in the dark)
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
(You know they all pretend)
You're the pretender
(Who dares)
What if I say I will never surrender?

What if I say I'm not like the others?
(Keep you in the dark)
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
(You know they all pretend)
You're the pretender
(Who dares)
What if I say I will never surrender?

So who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?


Jag valde just den här låten för att den handlar tydligt om identitet, om hur man ser på andra, om hur man ser på sig själv, hur andra ser dig kanske. Jag tolkar texten i låten som en fråga, vem är du uttalat till dig själv, om hur människor kan låtsas att vara något dem inte är, för att t.ex imponera på andra människor.

Folk kan övertala sig själva att tro att det är det riktiga jag, folk kan ha strävat till att vara på ett sätt så länge och mycket att man tror sig vara det, även fast man på riktigt vet att det inte är sant.

"Pleading ignorance"

"I'm the voice inside your head You refuse to hear I'm the face that you have to face Mirrored in your stare" 

 Det kan handla om människor som lovar saker men kan inte fullfölja dem, kan handla om hur någon lovar någonting, även fast dem redan vet från början att dem inte kan fullfölja det.

Man kan ha blivit trött på alldeles för många "falska" människor och man börjar ifrågasätta andra människor mer och mer.

"Keep you in the dark
You know they all pretend"


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