He asserts that it is out of his hands, that this pattern of behavior is simply part of his core personality by referring to it as his "destiny. There's an English story about someone called Tim Brightside, Mr. Tim Brightside was an Englishman who came to America and fell in love with a prostitute. The prostitute promised to quit her job for Tim. Tragically, one night she meets with a client in a carriage, and she cheats on Brightside for her job. Brightside finds out, climbs to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge, and commits suicide.
I think it's based on this. I feel the meaning of this song is given away in the title to a certain extent. This song describes this mentality and how it is applied to his love life.
However, the song then opens up a new chapter of this mans love life. His eagerness and willingness to be open-minded and continue looking for love has once again backfired and proven to do nothing but break his heart and disappoint him. This man shall put the events of the past behind him, and continue to live on and find new love. This song is about a man obviously pushed around by disloyal girlfriends too often without setting them straight.
The song is about a man's obsession with his significant other who is cheating on him. He tends to miss these things because he is an optimistic person. But now it has hit him. See mr Brightside for more. All you douche bags are wrong!!! When I hear this song, I see someone sitting somewhere, talking to a girl. They are friends and have been for years. In his mind, he always feel there is more than just friendship. They kissed once, but just a friendly peck on the cheek. Although he knows better, it "confirmed" his delusion.
Once home, knowing he cant have her,he pictures her, with the other guys she was talking to; perhaps one in particular. Seems to me this is a song about jealousy. It's obsessive and uncontrollable. Falling asleep, he's imagining her going out and cheating on him. He sees his girlfriend share a friendly hello kiss it was only a kiss, she says when he confronts her Hence the repetition.
It was only a kiss. This is crazy unbelievable to him. Over and over his jelous mind takes him into a black hole of imagined consequences. She shares a cigarette with someone The Mr Brightside title is ironic. This song is clearly about a deranged man who has been sent to a mental asylum after being convicted of sexually assaulting a woman, whilst being mentally unstable. In the song, the man speaks about the demons in his head, in the lines 'I just can't look its killing me And taking control'.
This informs listeners that because of his mental state, he was convicted of a crime that did not actually happen. He did not sexually assault the woman, instead he wrongly kissed her, and, taking advantage of his mental incapacity, she took him to court. That's the beauty of music : brighteyessucks on October 23, Totally agree with you!! At 1st the "coming out of my cage Thanks so much for interpreting the song like this, it opened my eyes and now i can't hear the song without thinking of it like this!
I can relate to the feelings, paranoia, and insecurities of the narrator. In the past I have been in a similar place in my life.
It sucked. A lot. And the worst thing is: the imaginings were just that: all in my head. But at the time, they were quite intense and affected me a lot. And to the poster who said "people get jealous because they are vulnerable", I am persuaded that is absolutely true. Does it not make more sense that the kiss that he refers to, is actually the kiss where she cheats on him. All paranoia etc comes from that kiss she had with another guy, and how it seems odd that she only a kissed him yet id had such a profound effect on him coz he was so in love MaxQQQ I'm in the exact spot your 2 is right now.
I started singing this song randomly in the shower today and I guess it was a strange coincidence that I decided to look up what this song really meant. Now I know where I really am and who I am. I'm Mr. MaxQQQ When he says "it starts with a kiss", could he have walked in on her, sees her give a brief kiss to someone else and nothing more but then his imagination takes off?
Derf on May 23, General Comment I think you have to put the song in the same order of the record to kind of get a full grasp. The song before it on the cd is Jenny Was a Friend of Mine.
Basically, he commited a crime, assualt or manslaughter, against this girl Jenny. He is being questioned by the cops, etc, etc. He was doing fine in jail. He discovers that the girl, Jenny, is now involved with someone else. I dont take "Started out with a kiss" to be between him and the girl. I think that has to do with the girl Jenny kissing someother guy and from there they have fallen for each other.
Now, destiny is calling him and he has to move on. But he cant and I think thats why the whole song is repeated 3 times. Just my take.. I'm afraid not Bourbon is about killing Jenny, Midnight Show is the killer hiding the body, and Friend of Mine shows the thoughts of the killer as he's being interrogated about her death in police custody.
This song has nothing to do with Jenny, the album isn't really a continuous narrative : Sabazius on December 18, Sabazius: What if this is after he gets out of jail or maybe he was never actually convicted and keeps having flashbacks about what made him kill Jenny? Maybe that he got jealous when he saw her at the movies Midnight Show kissing another guy and got thrown into all these images of what she could have done, and that somehow made him snap and kill her.
Bourbon could be what he was kind of rambling to her as he killed her basically saying 'I would have been more than happy to drink alone, but you had to waltz in and ruin everything, and now look what happened. That would explain the somewhat jumbled feeling of the song, and still makes sense in the sceme of things. My Interpretation I think this song is about a flirty girl who keeps sending him mixed signals.
She just wants to have fun, but he kisses her and now he can't stop thinking about her. Now he doesn't just want fun, he wants her: "Gotta gotta be down Because I want it all. In the video clip, we can see that he's 'tired of playing games' and being led on from this girl through her semi-transperant image of her overshowing the chess game he's playing with the other man that wants her. By throwing it, it signals that he's sick of playing games and he's just going to get over her.
With the addition of the other men in the clip, we can see that Flowers is not the only man she's led on in this way.
The other man see's Flowers with the girl and after the fireworks scene, rejects her. This is where he 'looks on the brightside' "But it's just the price I pay" for kissing and opening his heart to a girl which he knew was flirty.
Everything happens for a reason, this was fate telling him to open up his eyes and lower his naivety. In the end, the girl's environment is silent and dull as Flowers walks away juxtaposing the commotion previously entailing the scenes.
This shows that all the men got sick and tired of her mixed signals and this was The Killer's way of exemplifying that consequently, she was left with no one and got what she deserved. The only thing I cannot figure out which is probably really straight forward , are what the apples in the video clip represent.
A great song I'm sure most people can relate to no matter how you interpret it. Apples are known as the forbidden fruit - it's a biblical reference to the Garden of Eden, I think.
The apple is a symbol of temptation. My God, I'm open to interpretation toward song lyrics, but some of these song interpretations from these users are so random that I had to double-check to see if I was on the right song. Nylo on May 07, General Comment Ok guys, I figured the whole song out.
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss. The kiss means everything to him but it was only a kiss for the girl he fell for. She moves on and he moves into the next verse. And taking control. While asleep, he dreams of her and this other guy going home and making love together. You can tell that it's a dream of some kind when he says, "And It's all in my head. Because I'm Mr. Brightside part. He is very jealous about this girl and it keeps killing him inside but the fact that he says that he is Mr.
Brightside shows that he moves on quickly. The name, Mr. Brightside, refers to him always looking on the brightside of situations. He refers to this as his curse when he says, "But it's just the price I pay," and it is always his destiny to be broken hearted and move on to the next girl.
He "opens up his eager eyes," looking for the next girl that he can fall in love with. I think that the next verse and chorus refers to him going through the same process with another girl since it repeats the exact same thing, word for word. This adds to the effect of him saying that things will never change, that he will never find true love, that his destiny is to fall in love with girl after girl, and one by one, they will break his heart.
He finishes the song with a few, "I never's" and by this I think that he is again adding onto the effect that he will never find true love. That is my interpretation of the song "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers pjs on August 10, Link. Looking through these comments, it's actually pretty hard to decide which one I prefer the most. They're all pretty valid, I wish I was smart enough to come up with my own The song is inspired by a real-life girlfriend of Brandon Flowers' who cheated on him.
I was asleep and I knew something was wrong. I have these instincts. I went to the Crown and Anchor and my girlfriend was there with another guy. Hat-tip: Songfacts. Here are a couple pictures of the British-themed birthplace in case you're not going to make the pilgrimage. The lead-guitarist, Dave Keuning, originally composed the lyrics before meeting Flowers.
After they started playing together, Flowers wrote more lyrics and the chorus. Keuning actually plays bass in the early demo. Brightside" was written and recorded for the first time. Brandon Flowers discussed a bit of the song's history with NME in We must've written it around the end of Dave and I were writing a ton of songs at the time, trying to figure out what it was that made us tick. I remember us going into the Virgin Megastore to buy The Strokes' Is This It on the day it came out and, when we put it on in the car, that record just sounded so perfect.
I got so depressed after that, we threw away everything and the only song that made the cut and remained was 'Mr. He continued: "It came from this cassette of ideas that Dave gave me, and one of them was the 'Mr.
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