Blame It On Me
Love's Battlefield: Unraveling the Heart in Bonnie Raitt's 'Blame It On Me'
Lyrics
Blame it on me
Expressing responsibility and acknowledgment of one's actions.
Hold up my faults for all to see
Acknowledging personal faults and displaying them openly.
Truth is love's first casualty
Noting that truth often suffers in the context of love.
Blame it on me
Reiterating the acceptance of blame for a situation.
Blame it on me
Repeating the admission of responsibility.
It's not the way love's supposed to be
Highlighting that the current state of love is not ideal.
How can you so casually
Questioning how someone can assign blame so casually.
Blame it on me
Re-emphasizing the acceptance of blame despite the casualness.
Blame it on stars
Shifting blame to external factors, such as stars.
Shining like headlights from a million cars
Comparing stars to headlights and attributing responsibility to them.
Strung like jewels from here to Mars
Describing stars as jewels, extending the blame to celestial bodies.
Blame it on stars
Repeating the attribution of blame to stars.
Blame it on time
Transferring responsibility to the abstract concept of time.
The fugitive, the vagabond, it's the perfect crime
Characterizing time as a fugitive and attributing a perfect crime to it.
Poured like sand through your hands and mine
Describing time slipping away through hands, sharing blame.
Blame it on time
Reiterating the attribution of blame to the passage of time.
How can you talk that way?
Questioning someone's hurtful communication and suggesting walking away.
Just turn around and walk away
Encouraging the person to leave and take responsibility for their words.
Your words, they sting so heartlessly
Highlighting the emotional impact of hurtful words.
So go ahead, be free, blame it all on me
Granting freedom to the person to blame everything on the speaker.
But one summer night
Introducing a specific scenario of a summer night.
When my door is open and the moon is new
Describing a moment with an open door and a new moon.
And some sad melody comes stealing through
Anticipating the intrusion of a sad melody and potential heartbreak.
And my heart should break in two
Expressing vulnerability and the possibility of emotional pain.
If my heart should break in two
Repeating the potential heartbreak scenario.
Oh baby, ooh
Expressing a sense of affection or endearment toward the person.
Oh baby, I'm gonna blame it on you
Declaring an intention to attribute blame to the person in case of heartbreak.
Blame it on you
Repeating the commitment to blaming the person.
I'll blame it on you, baby
Affirming the continued commitment to blaming the person.
Comment