Song!

So, this week I felt like talking about a song. This is a strange song so I must tell you I’m not crazy first. It’s a song called “9 crimes” by Damien Rice.

“Leave me out with the waste,

 This is not what I do
It's the wrong kind of place

To be thinking of you

It's the wrong time

 For somebody new
It's a small crime

And I got no excuse”

When she says “leave me out with the waste” she is saying she’s not worth the relationship. Then she continues on with the idea that he doesn’t usually act this way. She feels that it’s the “wrong kind of place” to be thinking of him, But that it is also the “wrong time for somebody new”. I think this is her saying that it is right but it isn’t at the same time. I think her ideas and feelings are conflicted. Also, she is questioning everything.  Because in the next verse she says

 “And is that all right, yeah?

 give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that all right, yeah?
If you don't shoot it how am I supposed to hold it?”

Here she is questioning what is right. She asks if it is okay if he gives her “gun away when it's loaded”. I do not think he means that in a literal way. I think this part of the song begs the question “is it okay to give something up when it carries that much weight in each others lives.” He is wondering how he is supposed to feel and make it work if she does not even attempt to try. Their relationship is like a loaded gun, it’s full of power but at the pull of a trigger it could be all over. I also think the last part could mean that maybe she doesn’t want to be the one that ruins the relationship so he is like is that alright if I “give my gun away when it is loaded” like give away the thought and power to ruin it but not actually ruin it. Leave that for someone else. I think they are both questioning the relationship.

            The next part of the song is his voice and it says the same thing except instead of “thinking of you” it says “cheating on you”. I think here they are still questioning each other. He says it’s the wrong time to be cheating on her and she says it’s the wrong time to be thinking of him. I think they are both full of doubt. Then the song continues on to say.

“It's the wrong time she's pulling me through
It's a small crime and I got no excuse
And is that all right?

If I give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that all right, yeah?”

Here he is saying she is helping him through it. And he feels that what he did is a small crime. I think he means that compared to their powerful relationship the other girl meant nothing. The rest of the song is all of their voices and questions all combined together. The song ends full of question. In the video, the girls face is in pieces and he looks at her in awe, as if he hoped it wouldn’t end.