Jasmine
Blooms of Danger: Unveiling the Femme Fatale in Bat for Lashes' Jasmine
Lyrics
She drives hard through the doom gloom haze
Driving forcefully through a dark and gloomy atmosphere
Legs for days and bones of pearl
Having attractive and long legs with delicate, precious bones
Her love hurtling down deaths highways
Her love is speeding down dangerous paths associated with death
The hands of a killer, the heart of a little girl
Possessing the actions of a killer but the emotions of a young girl
Jasmine
Reference to a person named Jasmine
You come along
Jasmine enters the speaker's life
And take me
She takes the speaker somewhere transformative
To where I feel like
Leading the speaker to a state of feeling empowered and mature
A woman, coming on strong
Expressing a sense of newfound strength and confidence
Jasmine, into the night
Repetition of Jasmine and a mention of nighttime
Ni-ni-night
Emphasis on the nighttime experience
Don't be seduced by those baby blues
Warning against being enticed by Jasmine's charming eyes
That secret smile when it's catching you
Cautioning about a secretive smile that can be deceiving
Because little girl cuts your heart in two
Describing how Jasmine can emotionally wound by dividing the heart
Sucks the juice, 'til she turns you loose
Metaphorically extracting the essence from the speaker until released
Jasmine
Reiteration of Jasmine's impact on the speaker's life
You come along
Jasmine continues to lead the speaker
And take me
Guiding the speaker to a place of feeling empowered and mature
To where I feel like
Reiteration of the transformative experience
A woman, coming on strong
Emphasizing the speaker's newfound strength
Jasmine, into the night
Repetition of Jasmine and a reference to nighttime
Ni-ni-night
Highlighting the significance of the nighttime experience
Into the night
Continuation of the nighttime theme
Ni-ni-night
Repetition emphasizing the nighttime setting
A body bag, on eucalyptus hills
Imagery of a body bag on eucalyptus hills, suggesting death
And the Hollywood forever
Reference to the Hollywood Forever cemetery, symbolizing mortality
And the endless sleeping pills
Allusion to the use of sleeping pills as a coping mechanism
No girl will ever kill your nighttime ills
Assurance that no other woman will heal nighttime troubles like Jasmine
Like Jasmine does
Emphasizing Jasmine's unique ability to bring relief
'Cause when she blooms, she kills
Metaphor of Jasmine blooming and causing destruction or transformation
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