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 have always believed that this song is about obsession and a guy who thinks that any girl who even talks to him wants him. It is also the story of a night out where the girl who he wants has hooked up for a one night stand with his friend. He sees it all in his mind and "Its killing me".
Of course being an obsessive he is also a control freak and in his mind he wants to take control. Yet he never can.
Talking to himself in the chorus he berates himself for being a fool and vows not to do it again. "Open up my eager eyes. I'm mister Brightside" vows not to do it again but then...
When he is out the next time " Coming out of my cage" he is Feeling Just Fine. But then it starts again "It was only a kiss, It was only a kiss." and the down cycle starts again... -
This song was allegedly written about actor, famous as Spencer Reid on the show Criminal Minds, Matthew Gray Gubler. Gubler dated the lead singer's ex girlfriend and it is said that it made the singer jealous enough to write the song.
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Has anybody considered that Brandon's character and the bad guy in the video are the same person? I say this because there is a clip in the video where Brandon is eating an apple and this is pretty much the evil dude's trademark. If they were the same person that means that Brandon was deeply in love with this girl and she betrayed him by cheating on him. He decided to live with it and even immersed himself in her lifestyle. Now he is no better than the guys she was having affairs with. But one night he and the girl remember him as Mr. Brightside, the optimistic boy that she fell in love with. That night the guy finally comes to terms with the fact that he has wasted years trying to keep this girl near when she wasn't truly in love with him. He tries to taunt his younger self, though, as if to say "You were too weak to keep her, but I'm not." But by the end he has rejected her and might be able to pick up where he left off.
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I think the song is about this man, Who never really gets emotionaly close to any girl, because he's something like a womanizer (he wants it all). But one day he kisses this girl and he sudnely realizes that she's more that only a kiss...and he doesn't know how to deal with this because now he's too involved and he's obsessionated by the tought of her with someone else. His obsession is "the price to pay" for caring too much. The Brightside is ironic to me, because now the "destiny is calling" him, but he can't see the bright side anymore, he can't live careless like he used to.
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Someone is finally letting go of a loved one after that person has been cheated. I love this song!
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The guy just loves a girl but it turn out the girl is still with her boyfriend damn.
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I'm coming out of my cage
And I've been doing just fine
well i think the meaning of the first line is in a time after the whole story so , because of all that he went through he was looked in an cage emotionally or maybe just setting around inside the house not going out
and before he "loved" her lets say . he wasn't happy or sad !
Gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all
before he met her he wanted the perfect girl and the perfect love which he though that she is that , so he was upset because he couldn't tell her how he feels
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this
then he saw her kissing another guy , and he couldn't see why she is into the guy or how could that happen
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, letting me go
then he go back home and sleeps and start imagining how she is gonna be treated with a bad guy , and even though its all in his head it makes him sock . and its like she forgot about him !
And I just can't look its killing me
And taking control
Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
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
because of what he saw , he let his emotion get the best of him , and even though he is not the type of person that cares about anything , but this has made him jealous !
she always tell him stories that he cant believe and hate , because he thinks he knows the truth .
and he is willing to take this pain with him because he wants to fulfill his dreams and what he looks at it as his destiny , so he will bite hard and look for his chance , because that's who he is , mr brightside !!
btw maybe this is not what the song means but that what happened to me lol , and thats what it means to me ;) -
Well i personal thinks it about a boy who startd opening up to the world. ( comeing out of my cage) Everthing going well intill he started to like a gril.( What it all) The only a kiss part takes the trun in different direation. He didn't kiss her but a freind did. He saids its twice, one for trying to wrap his head around it the other to disbelivie it as a kiss is not that big of a thing. Fell a sleep he thinks about his two freind and what they're doing. He can't help it ands starts to get juseulsy about his male freind, hateing him in a way.(Driving saints in to see, That take sainthood away). He can't stand seeing them together.(Choking on your alibia). He can only hold together with the noation of deanstiy and that ever thing will trun ok.(Desting is calling me opening up my egager eyes I Mr.brightside) Sorry for the spelling this out on the and what its mean is heavyly based of something I going through. Here to a better tomorrow because I am Mr.brightside.
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If you watch the music video it looks like this girl is a hooker. She loves the singer. And the singer loves her. But this guy doesn't like the singer and would rather have her stay a hooker. And not go off with the guy. The part about jeasouly makes me think that the singer gets mad and wants the girl to him self. The part where they play checkers and the singer hits the board makes me think he was trying to win the girl. In a game. At the end when the main charter walks away I think he gave up. Pleas tell me what you think of this.
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If you watch the music video it looks like this girl is a hooker. She loves the singer. And the singer loves her. But this guy doesn't like the singer and would rather have her stay a hooker. And not go off with the guy. The part about jeasouly makes me think that the singer gets mad and wants the girl to him self. The part where they play checkers and the singer hits the board makes me think he was trying to win the girl. In a game. At the end when the main charter walks away I think he gave up. Pleas tell me what you think of this
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Well originally I thought it was that he was getting over other girls and becoming social again and the girl wouldn't love him back, BUT...
Watch the music video, the old guy is like a pimp and the apple is like the sign to do the guy
So now I think he fell in love with a prostitute/whore and he knows that he can't get anywhere with her
If you think of it that way it's easy to figure out -
"I'm coming out of my cage and I've being doing just fine."
this "cage" is metaphoric for being trapped and separated from freedom. you can be trapped either physically or, as this quote really means, metaphorically. which is emotionally/mentally trapped.
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My intereperation of the song has changed as i have gotten older.
I really think it's about he's girlfriend being a prostitue. Judging by the film clip as well. They may of met at her work and she still does it. It all started with a kiss now he is in love with her. How the guy in the film clip throw an apple at her (an exchange of money)
She is in love with him still but she continues to work. At the end he breaks up with her cause he can't handle the jeakousy that is bound to happen if he stays with her.
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For the music video, it shows a (presumably) musician, and his some-what requited love for a prostitute. He fights with her boss, comes to the sad realization he doesn't want to be with someone who he always imagines with someone else, and so the music video ends with him walking off.
The interpretation I drew straight from teh lyrics only tell about a person, presumably male, who kisses a girl and finds himself more in love than he had anticipated. She, however, is either cheating on him or has another man somehow, and so the singer is imagining her with another man, which makes him nauseous. -
I think the title "Mr. Brightside" is a bit sarcastic. He is insecure and for some reason he suspects that "she is touching his chest" and "he is takin off her dress". But it is "all in his head".
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