The Killers: Mr Brightside Meaning
Song Released: 2003
Mr Brightside Lyrics
And I’ve been doing just fine
Gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss
Now I’m falling asleep
And she’s calling a...
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I think the song is about Brandon and his girlfriend cheated on him. Mr Brightside is the guy who she went off with and Brandon is mimicking him when he says I'm Mr Brightside.. Killers rule!! =]
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"I'm coming out of my cage
And I’ve been doing just fine
Gotta gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss"
--this is what I thnk according to the video too...the first part talks about a dude that kissed with a girl and he fell in love with her. He is trying to get over her but he can't because he sees her kissing another guy which is not him. at fisrt he starts imaginating things but he sees they are actually doing it...and he feels saddness and anger at the same time and he want to see what the girl is doing with the guy but at the same time he doesnt.
"I just can’t look its killing me
And taking control"
---He gets really jealous and he kills them both because in the chorus it says "turning saints into the sea" meaning he got really mad and furious, "swimming through sick lullabies" swimming into something bad meaning he did something bad, a sin...killing!.."choking on your alibis"(an alibis is an excuse to avoid the blame" which means that while he was being intoragated he was getting confused and was really nervous didn't know what to say because he knew that he did a crime. Since he stats chocking he realizes that he has to admit to the crime go to jail..."but is just the price I pay, destiny is calling me"
the only part tht I don't understand is the I never I never inever I never part! -
"I'm coming out of my cage
And I’ve been doing just fine
Gotta gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss"
--this is what I thnk according to the video too...the first part talks about a dude that kissed with a girl and he fell in love with her. He is trying to get over her but he can't because he sees her kissing another guy which is not him. at fisrt he starts imaginating things but he sees they are actually doing it...and he feels saddness and anger at the same time and he want to see what the girl is doing with the guy but at the same time he doesnt.
He gets really jealous and he kills them both because in the chorus it says "turning saints into the sea" meaning he got really mad and furious, "swimming through sick lullabies" swimming into something bad meaning he did something bad, a sin...killing!.."choking on your alibis"(an alibis is an excuse to avoid the blame" which means that while he was being intoragated he was getting confused and was really nervous didn't know what to say because he knew that he did a crime. Since he stats chocking he realizes that he has to admit to the crime go to jail..."but is just the price I pay, destiny is calling me"
the only part tht I don't understand is the I never I never inever I never part! -
No question about it . It's about a guy who met a girl and kissed . Thought nothing of it at the time but realised how much he needed her when he seen her with another guy . He pretended he wasn't bothered but inside it was "killing" him. "Joking on your alibi" adds to the pretending part but he knows he`ll suffer and will "have a price to pay" .
Very simple . love this song , I relate to it a lot . -
I agree that this song is probably about a man who's in love with his female friend, but he's missed his chance with her. In fact I think it has a lot in common with a Jebediah song called "Skin"
And the day that we left
I found a whole in my chest
When you said we were only friends, hanging out
What was I sposed to do, I should swallow my pride
and say it's cool, but I'm a fool, I want you....
I guess I always knew I would
Like you too much for my good
It gets me when I tell you this but it's true
It's so true x3
Verse 2:
And the night that we kissed
We were both pretty pissed
But I still knew how good it felt, but did you?
Now I'd do anything, to get you out from underneath my skin
Wishfull thinking, don't want to
I guess I always knew I would
Like you too much for my good
It gets me when I tell you this but it's true
It's so true x3
You......
I guess I always knew I would
Like you too much for my good
It gets me when I tell you this but it's true
It's so true x3
It's so true x2 -
This similar thing has happened to me here recently. When I heard this song, it was exactly what I was feeling. My interpretation is that he is really good friends with this girl and he wants to move on to a relationship, but she is really good friends with other male figures. While laying in bed, he does nothing but think about what she is doing at that time with another man, and even though it is only in his head, he is literally feeling sick.
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When I listen to this song, I always think of
A dude with his girlfriend..and the dudes best friend
and they all get drunk
and go back to someones apartment or whatever
and the dude sorta just is on the sofa
and the girlfriend and best friend and
"she's touching his chest now
He takes off her dress now "
etc
But I'm a silly girl
But no one knows who I am, so its all good >.<
Love the song btw -
Of course it's about a murder!! What´s the band's name????????
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It's about SEX
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I think this is about a man who has fallen in love with a girl after just a kiss, and now he's imagining what she's doing with all these other men, because to her, he is just another guy. He's going mad with jealousy, and it's taking over his life. He believes that she's his destiny, but I'm not sure if he thinks that any thing's ever going to happen.
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Guy likes girl, guy is ready to go after girl, but guy may have waited too late, and insecurities return..
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Didn't read everyone else's so if this is a rehash of something posted earlier I apologize....so here goes:
Mr. Brightside
I'm coming out of my cage
And I’ve been doing just fine
Gotta gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss
Ok to me what he's saying is his anger/jealousy is coming out after his girlfriend/lover kissed another man, maybe he's been caging up these emotions and he's not able to do so anymore. He's gotta be down (ie act as if everything is ok) because he wants all of the attraction/emotion/attraction of the girl he's singing about. Then he asks, how did it end up with him being so upset and angry (as well as the soon to follow dream/imagination sequence) because it was only a kiss.
Now I’m falling asleep
And she’s calling a cab
While he’s having a smoke
And she’s taking a drag
Now they’re going to bed
And my stomach is sick
And it’s all in my head
But she’s touching his—chest
Now, he takes off her dress
Now, let me go
Now he's lying in bed to go to sleep and in his mind he's imagining his lover running off to meet with this guy and it obviously turns sexual. He's saying "now let me go" as in please let me stop thinking/dreaming this.
I just can’t look its killing me
And taking control
Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
The thoughts of this are killing him, and taking control causing him to be angry and jealous again. Turnin saints, a sign of good and pleasent things into the sea...maybe a sea of sorrow/despair. It could also mean casting saints (good people, in this case him) into a sea of sick lullabies (dreams) and thoughts.
Choking on your alibis
But it’s just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
‘Cause I’m Mr Brightside
Here I feel like now that he's lost trust he sees things as alibis in his head even if they may not be. IE she's not with him now, and he's imagining her with some guy and whatever reason she is not with him is an alibi and not reality. Then it goes on to say that this must be just part of being in love and he believes them to be destined to be together. But this has opened his eyes to reality and he realizes he's been too optimistic and must understand that not everything is sugar and spice in this world. He's "Mr. Brightside", meaning he's naive and is being brought back down to earth about how love really is.
I never...
I never...
I never...
This is so ambiguous I wouldn't know where to begin. -
Hmm I don't know, I think coming out of his cage is his own head his own reclusive hurts he's been doing fine has to be down like mr. cool mr. brightside. he wants it all means he wants all the vices life has to offer kinda he wants the girl so he has to be mr everything i guess he got one kiss with her and he is reminding himself that it is only a kiss it was only a kiss. basically he thinks she is cheating on him so he lays his head down and all the mental images of her cheating with this guy is tormenting his head when he closes his eyes when he says let me go i think he means this burden and this jealousy let me go his thoughts are holding him prisoner. obviously it's killing him and taking control of him which is making him insane he just wants his head to shut up and stop.
I think he is choking on her alibis all the stories she tells him to explain where she is. I think jealously and love is killing him from inside his own head he just wants this pain weight to let him go. or he wants her to just let him go. -
All I have to put forward is the "and it's all in my head". This is suggesting that he's imagining what his ex or something is doing with this guy. Then he doesn't want to watch them. Then opens his eyes and thinks "at least I'm not there"
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I always felt this song had a slight feel of a stalker in it. It seems that the singer is looking in on the relationship the going to bed line and the taking off her dress line could shows this, but my other interpretation is that he's just imagining all this but he is getting over it because he's mr brightside, sure he gets jealous first but he soon moves on. Open up my eager eyes could mean he's opening his eyes to accept whats going on and moving on from it
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