The way it’s phrased would make you think this is a romantic love song but it’s not, and the bridge tells you that. It’s about a woman who gave her baby up for adoption after feeling no connection to them and deciding it would be best for them to live a life with someone who would love them rather than with her resentment. She clearly doesn’t regret it but she seems mournful that it had to happen, wondering if her child ever thinks of her and wonders about what could’ve been in the same way that she does.
Her child also could have been taken from her (in her case willingly) as she says “I am all the things they might have said to you” It’s also more of the mother thinks she is a monster, she states she loves them “you are someone I have loved but never known” “keeping my claws away when they were close enough to hurt you” “do you ever think of me and my 2 hands and wonder why” the metaphor for a ship and an anchor is so great because the only thing an anchor can do is weigh a ship down which says that the mother thinks she is weighing the child down and gives/gets taken away
People are saying that it’s about a child and I think what makes that even more heartbreaking is that it sounds like a child themself is singing it. It feels like a teen who got pregnant and knows that both the child and themself deserve better.
I used to think that this song was about unrequented love with a lover but the more I listen to it and read the lyrics I realize that it's about a child and that makes it a lot more deep. such a beautiful song
Or about someone who’s too broken to fall in love again, and self aware of that fact. They want to keep someone safe from a relationship with them because they don’t think they’re capable of doing anything but hurting them.
Agreed to me it seems like a mother who had Post-partum depression and was afraid of hurting her child, so she likely gave the child up for adoption or kept her distance from the child.
Yeah, this is my first time listening to it and I thought it was about letting a lover go until I got the part where she sings "and wonder why they never tied your shoes" and then it hit me like a brick.
I love this song. For me this is what it feels like to love someone so much while equally hating yourself to the point where you conclude that you're a burden so you let them go cause you think that's the right thing to do no matter how painful it is for the two of you
i love this song. i was adopted, and sometimes i wonder if this is how my biological mother may have felt about me. i never met her and she isn't around anymore, so i'll never truly know, but through this song i feel a little bit a closure. love the crane wives so much.
just an interesting fact. photo in the background is my hometown St. Petersburg (Russia). This photo was taken, if I’m not mistaken, from the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress (an extremely beautiful and peaceful place in the city center) The column is a raster column (there are two of them) lights are lit in them on holidays. Sorry for my bad english. 😅
this song is so heavy. I've never had a kid, but I also don't want one for broadly the same reasons as the person in the song had for giving their kid away.
My 10th grade English teachers. Student teacher showed up this song and presented it as a poem. I fell in love with it, I feel the lyrics represent a thousand of things all while saying one that non of anybody could understand. It's a beautiful song and am so happy that I came across this
I've listened to the song so much that I've slowly painted a picture to me personally it could be a love song but to me it's about a mother who lost her lover before this child was born and the mother didn't get attached to this child didn't show love or affection and the sense of not wanting to put the burden of you remind me so much of him on this child and not wanting to angrily Lash out at this child not fully healing because she had the child dealing her grieving process but in another since the mother wants to keep her child at home with her wanting to keep that piece of him but this child knows that their mother hasn't been there hasn't showed love or anything towards them while the mother wishes she could without hurting her child and wishes she knew the person they are now thinking that setting themselves apart cutting the Rope would be the best for her child
To me this song is like an absent parent desperately trying to explain and excuse their absence from their child's life, with reason after reason trying to find one that could possibly make the child think the parent was right (and maybe the parent trying to convince themselves that they had to leave) but the parent was wrong and is now backtracking because ships need their anchors that 'hold them back' so they can stop at points they want/need to. To me it sounds like the child needs the parent but the parent couldn't see/know that until the child was older and they tried to apologize.
I love this song so much and I feel I can relate to it in a way because I live with my dad and step-mom. And jeez i miss my mom so much, she's just in a hard place right now and I know that. It's been months since I last saw her and I hope she gets better.
i fucking love this song and the different ways people are interpreting it, for me this (as well as tongues and teeth) is an ace anthem ! its for the times when im a bit more bitter about being ace like, feeling sorry for myself that the way i would love someone isn't maybe what is expected or traditional, "so the kindest thing to do is let you go" type of thing. whereas tongues and teeth is more, "fuck you, this is how i love, if you can't accept that then it's your loss !" absolute 10/10 love it all
I'm pretty sure Tongues and Teeth is about being toxic in a relationship, and having someone else try to fix you, but you're not interested in changing. Also NLAA is about a mother and a kid she gave up/had taken.
I love this song so much because it can work as so many things. It can work as a sad love song, it can work as a song about siblings who pretend that they dont care about eachother when they actually do, it can work as a song about a mentor who feels like they failed the person they're teaching or that actually HAVE failed the person they're teaching, it can work as a song about a parent forced to abandon their own child, or abandoning their child by choice but regretting it deeply, it can work as a song about a parent who neglected their child on accident, or on purpose but regretted it, it can work as a song about a parent who was a good parent, but made questionable decisions and think they arent a good parent, etc etc
I think the giving a kid up for adoption is the one that's most "right", but I feel like the romantic reading is also very good. Basically this song can be for anyone who felt they had tto let someone for their good
I can't help but think of my mother when I listen to this song. We have an incredibly strained relationship due to drug abuse and her not really being in my life. I just like to think she has a reson for leaving me, it helps the pain
Sometimes you get angry, and you're not used to being angry, and you don't know what to do. You want to defend yourself in all the ways you defend others, but breaking your character and letting out all the rage makes your words sharper than blades. But you don't know what to do. Save them from the sharp edges, and lose the justice by holding it in again?
The way it’s phrased would make you think this is a romantic love song but it’s not, and the bridge tells you that. It’s about a woman who gave her baby up for adoption after feeling no connection to them and deciding it would be best for them to live a life with someone who would love them rather than with her resentment. She clearly doesn’t regret it but she seems mournful that it had to happen, wondering if her child ever thinks of her and wonders about what could’ve been in the same way that she does.
Her child also could have been taken from her (in her case willingly) as she says “I am all the things they might have said to you”
It’s also more of the mother thinks she is a monster, she states she loves them “you are someone I have loved but never known” “keeping my claws away when they were close enough to hurt you” “do you ever think of me and my 2 hands and wonder why” the metaphor for a ship and an anchor is so great because the only thing an anchor can do is weigh a ship down which says that the mother thinks she is weighing the child down and gives/gets taken away
People are saying that it’s about a child and I think what makes that even more heartbreaking is that it sounds like a child themself is singing it. It feels like a teen who got pregnant and knows that both the child and themself deserve better.
I used to think that this song was about unrequented love with a lover but the more I listen to it and read the lyrics I realize that it's about a child and that makes it a lot more deep. such a beautiful song
Or about someone who’s too broken to fall in love again, and self aware of that fact. They want to keep someone safe from a relationship with them because they don’t think they’re capable of doing anything but hurting them.
Agreed to me it seems like a mother who had Post-partum depression and was afraid of hurting her child, so she likely gave the child up for adoption or kept her distance from the child.
OMG I'M SO GLAD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT THAT
Not me reading this, realizing and then crying because this is exactly how my relationship with my own mother was
Yeah, this is my first time listening to it and I thought it was about letting a lover go until I got the part where she sings "and wonder why they never tied your shoes" and then it hit me like a brick.
I love this song. For me this is what it feels like to love someone so much while equally hating yourself to the point where you conclude that you're a burden so you let them go cause you think that's the right thing to do no matter how painful it is for the two of you
i love this song. i was adopted, and sometimes i wonder if this is how my biological mother may have felt about me. i never met her and she isn't around anymore, so i'll never truly know, but through this song i feel a little bit a closure. love the crane wives so much.
just an interesting fact. photo in the background is my hometown St. Petersburg (Russia). This photo was taken, if I’m not mistaken, from the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress (an extremely beautiful and peaceful place in the city center) The column is a raster column (there are two of them) lights are lit in them on holidays.
Sorry for my bad english. 😅
"Do you ever think of me and my two hands ... and wonder why they never had the chance to lose you?"
this song is so heavy. I've never had a kid, but I also don't want one for broadly the same reasons as the person in the song had for giving their kid away.
My 10th grade English teachers. Student teacher showed up this song and presented it as a poem. I fell in love with it, I feel the lyrics represent a thousand of things all while saying one that non of anybody could understand. It's a beautiful song and am so happy that I came across this
Okay this is def about a child. I wasnt sure at first but the tie your shoes and sooth your fevers part kinda cements it.
I've listened to the song so much that I've slowly painted a picture to me personally it could be a love song but to me it's about a mother who lost her lover before this child was born and the mother didn't get attached to this child didn't show love or affection and the sense of not wanting to put the burden of you remind me so much of him on this child and not wanting to angrily Lash out at this child not fully healing because she had the child dealing her grieving process but in another since the mother wants to keep her child at home with her wanting to keep that piece of him but this child knows that their mother hasn't been there hasn't showed love or anything towards them while the mother wishes she could without hurting her child and wishes she knew the person they are now thinking that setting themselves apart cutting the Rope would be the best for her child
I can't hear this song without crying, I've tried over and over but it always brings tears to my eyes.
This song is so deep and beautiful but woah-Ho my mommy issues are screaming, like this song really has me crying in the club tonight bois
Ships need a anchor, when we drift away, we need a way home..
this song rips out my heart
To me this song is like an absent parent desperately trying to explain and excuse their absence from their child's life, with reason after reason trying to find one that could possibly make the child think the parent was right (and maybe the parent trying to convince themselves that they had to leave) but the parent was wrong and is now backtracking because ships need their anchors that 'hold them back' so they can stop at points they want/need to. To me it sounds like the child needs the parent but the parent couldn't see/know that until the child was older and they tried to apologize.
One of my favorite songs! Thank you
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I love this song so much and I feel I can relate to it in a way because I live with my dad and step-mom. And jeez i miss my mom so much, she's just in a hard place right now and I know that. It's been months since I last saw her and I hope she gets better.
thank you for the lyrics video, my poorly comprehending spoken english self appreciates it. also oh hey look that’s where i live!!
i fucking love this song and the different ways people are interpreting it, for me this (as well as tongues and teeth) is an ace anthem ! its for the times when im a bit more bitter about being ace like, feeling sorry for myself that the way i would love someone isn't maybe what is expected or traditional, "so the kindest thing to do is let you go" type of thing. whereas tongues and teeth is more, "fuck you, this is how i love, if you can't accept that then it's your loss !" absolute 10/10 love it all
its about a mom and her kid
@@theunrelatable5961 thank you for your insight ! im going to continue to interpret it my way bc thats what makes sense to me !
@@lel1160 ok
I'm pretty sure Tongues and Teeth is about being toxic in a relationship, and having someone else try to fix you, but you're not interested in changing.
Also NLAA is about a mother and a kid she gave up/had taken.
@@woodlanddove let ppl interpret songs how they want to :/
My new fav song!!!
Thank you so much...💚
I love this song so much because it can work as so many things.
It can work as a sad love song, it can work as a song about siblings who pretend that they dont care about eachother when they actually do, it can work as a song about a mentor who feels like they failed the person they're teaching or that actually HAVE failed the person they're teaching, it can work as a song about a parent forced to abandon their own child, or abandoning their child by choice but regretting it deeply, it can work as a song about a parent who neglected their child on accident, or on purpose but regretted it, it can work as a song about a parent who was a good parent, but made questionable decisions and think they arent a good parent, etc etc
I think the giving a kid up for adoption is the one that's most "right", but I feel like the romantic reading is also very good. Basically this song can be for anyone who felt they had tto let someone for their good
I can't help but think of my mother when I listen to this song. We have an incredibly strained relationship due to drug abuse and her not really being in my life. I just like to think she has a reson for leaving me, it helps the pain
This band reminds me of Life is Strange: True Colors.
Right? Seemed like a missed opportunity to not have this song in the game
Sometimes you get angry, and you're not used to being angry, and you don't know what to do. You want to defend yourself in all the ways you defend others, but breaking your character and letting out all the rage makes your words sharper than blades. But you don't know what to do. Save them from the sharp edges, and lose the justice by holding it in again?
Oh that hit close to home as someone who struggles to express their negative emotions.
i miss you man
God this is a beautiful song....
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Lmfaoooo
this song is so mcwexler pilled
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