The lines immediately preceding this suggest the nature of the deceit: But he interprets it as destructive because he knows full well that it signifies the uncovering of his deceit. There ought to be nothing destructive about a smile – it seems a kindly response. He speaks, but the only response is a smile. ![]() The lines form a beautiful vignette in which the reader is invited to fill in the rest of the scene. In other words he knows he fully deserves whatever criticisms are being made against him because it’s his own sub-conscious which is making them. He’s not so much reporting the reaction of his lover as imagining what an appropriate reaction might be. He accuses the person he’s addressing of destroying him with a smile, but since he was sleeping this could not literally have been the case. Instead he comes across as childish rather than childlike. He tries to appear innocent by comparing himself with a child, but fails. But despite his attempts to cover up his own part in his demise, he can’t help unintentionally alluding to it: From a neutral position the narrator looks as if he’s taking advantage of his state of mind, using it as an excuse for not having to acknowledge his own responsibility for his predicament. While the feeling of total desolation may be one not outside the listener’s experience, and therefore understandable, the listener is not likely to have much sympathy for him. He imposes his own feelings on things around him again when he comments: It’s not of course the streets which are dead, but the narrator in a spiritual sense, in that he’s allowing himself to wallow in misery. The narrator’s negative outlook is seen from the start: In addition, reading between the lines, he comes across as duplicitous. And he’s weak in that he makes no effort to make things better for himself. He’s weak in that he allows his emotions to take him over. He comes across not just as unsuccessful in love, but weak. The narrator’s thoughts which are presented throughout the song are also a guide to his character. On the one hand he claims to be love sick in the sense of being infatuated with someone who wants nothing to do with him, and on the other he is love sick in the sense that his desire for the person is making him feel ill. ![]() The first song, Love Sick, presents the effect of a former relationship on the speaker’s mind. Although the tone is despondent throughout the album, there are nevertheless hints that the flaws in the narrator’s character, which are in part responsible for his misery, might be overcome. The overall effect is to present us with a highly detailed picture of human weakness and contradiction in the face of adversity. The same ideas are found recurring again and again throughout the songs which represent the struggles someone might go through in dealing with loss. Can’t land a plane.Time Out Of Mind comprises eleven closely interrelated songs, all effectively the thoughts of the same narrator following the ending of a particular relationship. Love Sick becomes OCD with unrelenting thoughts about his “person”, interfering with his ability to do his job. Love Sick usually gets totally honest with bat shit crazy wife, who becomes obsessed with “the girl”, making life a living hell for Love Sick with constant fights. ![]() Despite both parties now able to be together, the Love Sick person will have an epically dumbass reason why he cannot (the bat shit crazy wife he divorced but she won’t move out). Love Sick becomes “Love Sick” when one party (often the guy) suddenly realizes he totally fucked up and didn’t marry their “person”, but married “ bat shit crazy” instead. They know literally everything about each other, and have hooked up over the years (not to be confused with “friends with bennies”). Love Sick (see also Unrequited Love).best friends of the opposite sex who have known each other for decades but never got their crap together at the same time to “be together”.
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