Billie Eilish: Hostage Meaning
Song Released: 2018
Hostage Lyrics
Alone with you, does that make sense?
I wanna steal your soul
And hide you in my treasure chest
I don't know what to do
To do with your kiss on my neck
I don't know what feels true
But this feels right so stay a...
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#1 top rated interpretation:In my own interpretation...
I think it has to deal with her being the abusive one, She wants to keep him but pushes him away constantly once he gets too close.
In this line she says, "I'll build a wall give you a ball and chain. It's not like me to be so mean you're all I wanted, just let me hold you like a hostage"
She loves him but sometimes she becomes overly aggressive with what she does, he loves her and chooses to stay through the anger and fighting, but it only hurts him at the end and makes him the hostage to her love.
She goes on later to express everything about gold. Gold finger tips, gold leaf across your lips, gold chain, and gold shirt he let her wear home.
Then she says "Gold's fake and real love hurts." She never had someone who actually loved her, she has a past of bad relationships so she treats this one like her last ones. Closed, Hurt, Depressed, and on Edge. Maybe she feels like she even has to "fight" him when things are going bad this could be the abusive side in her. -
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#3 top rated interpretation:i think the song is about loneliness and obsession with one person. example when she says “just let me crawl inside your veins. i’ll build a wall give you a ball and chains” it means she is attached to someone and loves that person but they don’t feel the same way or that she loves that person so much that it hurts.
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I think this has to do with her being obsessive or from an obsessive pov. she explains the gold leaf "across your lips" or smth like that and it says how valuble his touch is to her. she explains many other things that im to lazy to mention that just explain and demonstrate obbsessivness
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She is a girl that never had experienced love true love. He gives that to her but she doesn't know how to respond. "I dont know what to do to do with your kiss on my neck"
She is broken she is used on people leaving and treat her wrong she wants him but she sees herslef getting attached once again and she scared that he will leave like all the others."i dont know what feels true". She is overthinking everything she is trying to protect herself she is trying to not get attached because she knows that these time she wont make it.. " and let me crawl...like a hostage".And he makes her feel happy safe full but she doesn't let her self she is ruin her happiness. "And nothing hurts when i am alone" She doesnt want to lose him... -
I think this refers to her or someone elses obbsession with someone. "its not like me to be so mean" this persons obbsesion could have been taken so far that they are so obsesed they will be so mean just to be with that person. they could also be toxic. this song just refers to being a hostage in obsesive toxic love.
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i think that the way she describes wanting to hold them hostage is so that she can have them all to her self and in doing so they become trapped
and the usage of gold shows the rarity and how valuable their touch means too her. -
she loves him and will trap him to keep it. Billie Eilish wants to be with some one but also can not handle it and wants to leave he but she cant stay away. “I want to be alone, Alone with you - does that make sense? I wanna steal your soul And hide you in my treasure chest” (stanza 1) she wants to hide him from the world and loves him and wants to spend the rest of her days. She is all so asking if he wants to be alone with her.
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In "Hostage", the narrator (Billie) does nothing but express her immense love for her lover. According to her, her sole aim in life is to keep him hostage. Here, she uses it as a metaphor to describe how much she wants to keep her lover to herself. The intense love the narrator displays for her partner has traces of obsession. Her obsessive desire to have total possession of her partner fits perfectly into obsessive love and psychopathy.
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She is in love with someone and doesnt want to lose that person.
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I think this song is about heroin. “Crawl inside your veins” “hide you in my treasure chest”. It’s about an addiction to heroin and feeling the best while high on it, imo
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This song is about an addiction that she has to this one person. The person is all she has wanted, so she wants to be with this person constantly. She never wants to leave the person. She would do anything to be with them. She creates this image throughout the song by saying “you’re all I wanted”.
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I think it means that she doesn’t know who she loves. So, she thinks he feels right but yet doesn’t know yet. She wants to hold him hostage or in other words keep him from finding someone until she knows he is the one. She thinks that she loves him but is not certain. So much has happened to her and he’s the one she can turn to in that moment. Idk I could be completely wrong about this but that’s what it means for me anyway. I can relate to it a lot. I can relate to a lot of her songs so much that I feel like some of them are an exact interpretation of my life and what’s going on in it at that exact moment.
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addiction, to anything being the one addicted..or having an addiction and she left it open for anyone to relate it to whatever demons ans addictions they are being held hostage too.
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I think this is about loving someone so much that it hurts
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