An Animal in Your Care
Echoes of Love and Loss: An Animal in Your Care
Lyrics
Time after time
Expressing a repetitive occurrence or pattern over time.
You will forgive me
Anticipating forgiveness, suggesting a history of needing forgiveness.
Like an animal in your care
Metaphorical reference to being under someone's protection and care like an animal.
But give it time
Encouraging patience or the passage of time to heal or reveal something.
You will outlive me
Suggesting the speaker's mortality, implying the listener will outlive them.
And take the bow back you put in my hair
Recalling a gesture of affection symbolized by a bow in the speaker's hair, now to be returned.
Made a parade of myself in the street outside your house
Describing a public display of self-expression or vulnerability outside someone's residence.
For the New York photographer there
Mentioning a New York photographer, possibly introducing an external observer or influencer.
I fell for crime, I fell for beauty
Listing qualities (crime, beauty) that attracted the speaker to the listener.
I fell for you because you're the only one that cared
Emphasizing the listener's significance as the one who cared amid the speaker's attractions.
And when I die
Contemplating one's own death and the actions to be taken after.
You can put on costumes
Suggesting a post-mortem celebration with costumes reminiscent of the speaker's fashion style.
In the style of the clothes I wore
Continuing the theme of post-mortem actions, specifically referencing songs.
And sing the songs your lover taught you
Recalling the listener's learning of songs, possibly from the speaker, during their youth.
When you were too young to know
Reflecting on the naivety of youth and the unawareness of the true purpose of certain actions.
That this was what they were for
Commenting on the retrospective understanding of the significance of certain actions.
La, la, la, la
Repetition of "La, la, la" possibly indicating a transition or emotional expression.
La, la, la, la, la
-La, la, la
-La, la, la, la
Repetition of "La, la, la" continues, maintaining the emotional tone.
La, la, la, la, la
-La, la, la
-Like some dead relative
Comparing the speaker to a dead relative, emphasizing remembrance through a funeral.
You will remember me most by my funeral
Highlighting the listener's lasting memory of the speaker, particularly associated with a funeral.
And all the beautiful toasts you made
Recalling beautiful toasts made by the listener during the speaker's funeral.
Take back the spade
Metaphorically suggesting a need to relinquish control or involvement in the speaker's life.
We've both been filling up our days
Shared experience of filling days with activities, akin to filling a grave.
Like we were filling in a grave
Metaphorically expressing the passage of time and shared activities as filling a grave.
You let me hang, hang, hang around
Reflecting on the listener allowing the speaker to linger, possibly in memory.
You put your ribbons in my hair
Recalling a gesture of affection involving ribbons in the speaker's hair.
It's in this language that I found
Indicating the discovery of a meaningful connection or understanding through a shared language.
I am an animal in your care
Reiterating the metaphor of being an animal under the listener's care.
Animal in your care
Repetition of "Animal in your care," emphasizing the central theme.
Animal in your care
-Animal in your care
-It's in this language that I've found
Reiterating the theme of discovering meaning and identity through a shared language.
I am an animal in your care
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