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 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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I am 12, and I love metal music (I am also a girl), but I also like this song. I think this song is about a guy who is in love with a girl (she may love him to, but I am not sure) and may have been with her in a previos time, but now they can't be together for one resiion or another. but when they get to be alone with each other, they are being watch by another man, who is also in love with the girl. And at one point, the one guy see's the girl with the other man, and he know's that he can't be with her.....
Well, that is just my look on it. I may have made it a littel confusing to understand, but otherwise I hope I have helped. Rock on!! -
This is a song about cuckolding. A cuckold is the husband of an unfaithful wife, who encourages her infidelity and actually receives sexual gratification from knowing/watching his wife obtain sexual fulfillment from another man while he himself is denied. The combination of jealousy and submissiveness creates a sexual charge. Frequently, the arrangement between cuckold and wife involves the husband being physically restrained (e.g., in a cage) somewhere in the vicinity of where his wife and lover are having sex, so he can see and hear. I am familiar with the lifestyle and this song describes it to a tee.
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This song is not about murder it's about a man in love with a whore. The cage he comes out of is indeed an emotional restraint he fell in love with the hoe and is jealous because everybody is fucking his chick. Obviously she don't care as long as she gets paid. She is pretty hott in the molon rouge version though that version kicks ass!
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hmmm...i always thought it was about a man who feel in love with a hooker and even though he knew it was her job he couldnt stand the thought of her being with anybody else but him...
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I think this song is about personal irony as well as jealousy.
Its tough to work out what their relationship is but I don't think it matters that much because whats important in the song is what he's feeling.
I think its a lot about being paranoid of the possibilities of her going with the other guy.
I'm coming out of my cage
And I've been doing just fine (was getting more confident)
Gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all (but still gets down because he wants everything to be perfect)
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss
(how has he got so crazy over her, after just a kiss)
Now I'm falling asleep...
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Its late at night, for whatever reason he's not with her and knows she's probably out so he's imagining a scenario where she's going home with another guy (possibly someone he knows)
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And I just can't look its killing me
And taking control
Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
(maybe nothing has happened and he's making innocent people look like they're guilty)
Swimming through sick lullabies
(memories he has of her make him sick since he's not with her)
Choking on your alibis
(he imagines her denying it but he won't let himself believe it)
But it's just the price I pay
(price he pays for being weak and in love)
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
'Cause I'm Mr Brightside
-Mr Brightside is his own scarcastic way of saying he's a pessimist.
Just my thoughts -
I think that if you look at "Mr. Brightside," "Midnight Show," and "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine," in that order, it makes a story. (1) He catches her cheating with another guy and gets jealous. (2) He takes her out on a "date" one night and kills her. (3) He is caught and put on trial, and he tries to lie and say he's not guilty. The problem is, they don't tell you how he ends up.
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Ok, I'm not COMPLETELY sure about this, but, here goes.
I DO know that the whole video is based on the movie Moulin Rouge.
If you've never seen the movie, it's about this guy, Christian, who falls in love with a prostitute, Satine, who falls in love with Christian as well, but Satine ends up being forced to be with "the Duke" so as to keep the Moulin Rouge alive and going.
I don't know if that has anything to do with the song, like maybe one of the band members had a girlfriend or soemething that was unfaithful.
But, I'm guessing that's the basic idea.
Or, one of the band members just has an overwhelming obsession with Moulin Rouge. =D -
well to me this song has meaning to me in well almost the same way he sings it...
its about a guy whose in love with a female friend
whose well with another guy, and he knows it will never happen, but instead being pessimistic about it he finds that its a lot better to have her in his life as a friend rather than not at all....hence the name "mr brightside" he sees th bright side of things in their darkest -
I'm probably going to be repeating a little here some of what other people have said, but there a few things I want to add.
I think the song is a direct follow up to the first track on the album. The narrator is dealing with life after prison and is trying to get over his insident with jenny (in which he killed her).
I'm coming out of my cage (jail)
And I’ve been doing just fine
Gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all (he's been doing good out of jail, and he wants his life back on track so he has to be "down")
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss (the reason he committed the murder from "jenny was a friend of mine", she had kissed another guy and he was jealous enough to kill her over it, now reflecting that "it was only a kiss" on how much he over reacted.)
Now I’m falling asleep (when he falls asleep now, even though he had been rehabilitated he keeps seeing visions of what he originally thought was going on between jenny and her other lover, which is described in the following lines)
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 (the whole thing is not happening, and never did but he went crazy with jealousy and this is how he imagined it all)
but she’s touching his—chest
Now, he takes off her dress
Now, let me go (he wants the dreams of them doing these things to let him be and stop haunting him)
I just can’t look its killing me
And taking control (the dreams are tearing him up inside still, and "taking control" of him.)
Jealousy, turning saints into the sea (the jealousy is obvious, but the next line "turning saints into the sea" I believe relates what he did with jenny's body. I think the full explaination of the body dumping is in the track of "Midnight show" track 10 on the album where he says the line "a crashing tide can hide a guilty girl". The saint is jenny and he tried to hide her dead body in the sea.)
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis (He knew jenny was cheating on him and he caught her out. The choking part also reffers to how he killed her. Another line from "midnight show" that relates to this is "I took my baby's breath beneath the chandelier")
But it’s just the price I pay (the dreams that haunt him is the "price" he must pay)
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
‘Cause I’m Mr Brightside (the last 3 lines are him trying to get on with his life and look on the "brightside")
This is just my opinion. I know I have probably gone to in depth into the song and I hope I haven't wrecked it for anyone. Hopefully it will be of some use to someone :P
Cheers
Shawn -
I think that the guy is a big Liverpool fan and it's all about watching them win the Champions league. "I never" refers to him not believing that Liverpool can do it, but Mr. Brightside (Stephen Gerrard) comes along and scores a magnificent goal in the second half when they are 3-0 down to give the side some hope.
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i think it cud mean....
I'm coming out of my cage
And I’ve been doing just fine (wakes up and leaves his house nd evrythin alrite)
Gotta gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all (he wants her but he can't because she alreadii has a bf)
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss(he thinks how he could care 4 her wen it was just a kiss with a gurl)
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 (he tries 2 fall asleep but can't cus he's thinkin 2 much about her nd what she cud be doin with her bf)
I just can’t look its killing me
And taking control (gets more and more jelous)
Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis (how crazee he feels 4 her)
But it’s just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
‘Cause I’m Mr Brightside (thinks that he could deserve this for everythin he's done in the past) -
This song has nothing to do with murder, rape or prostitution. It was written about one of Brandon Flower's exes who cheated on him. Everyone seems to think that he was besotted with this girl after one kiss. Its not a kiss with him that he is referring to. His girlfriend at the time says to him "it was only a kiss" - when in reality she was schtupping the guy.
Poor love sick Brandon, is a bit paranoid follows her one evening and learns the awful truth. She's been feeding him lies about where she is going and this is the way that he finds out.
He tries to rationalise it by saying that he will get over her and that greater things are meant for him and that he should keep his chin up. -
Um guy who calls himself USERNAME. The Cure did not write Mr Brightside! This is entirely written by the band and royalties go to. Dont know where you got this from but its nonsense.
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