☝️ Key Points
- The song is about reflection and the difficulty of forgetting an intense and profound relationship.
- The lines 'We numbed ourselves just to feel something, yeah / Wanted everything and too much of everything / We never had enough / In the city that never sleeps' describe a passionate and intense relationship that was never enough.
- The words 'We were lost, but not losers / Found happiness in the saddest songs' show that despite difficulties, happiness and comfort were found in music and shared time.
- The repeated line 'Tell me how / Can I ever forget / How our hearts burned?' emphasizes the depth of love and the sadness that comes with loss.
- The lines 'Always something going on, we were together but alone / Sitting on the bus, scratching your name on the window / Never coming to reason / It's 'Us against them'' reflect the feeling of isolation and 'us against the rest of the world' during the relationship.
Interpretation
The song 'Sag mir wie' by
LEA deals with the reflection of an intense relationship that is over. It is about the memories and feelings that this relationship has left behind and the difficulty of dealing with them and forgetting them.
The lines 'We numbed ourselves just to feel something, yeah / Wanted everything and too much of everything / We never had enough / In the city that never sleeps' show that the relationship was intense and passionate from the start, maybe even too intense. They wanted to experience and feel everything, which led to them never having enough.
The lines 'We were lost, but not losers / Found happiness in the saddest songs' show that despite the difficulties they have gone through, they still found happiness and comfort in music and in their time together.
The repeated line 'Tell me how / Can I ever forget / How our hearts burned?' shows the difficulty of letting go and forgetting the memories of the relationship. It shows the deep and intense love they had for each other and the deep sadness that comes with the loss of that love.
The lines 'Always something going on, we were alone together / Sitting on the bus, scratching your name on the window / We never came to reason / It's 'us against them'' show the isolation and feeling of 'us against the rest of the world' they had during their relationship. They were always together, even when they were alone, and despite the difficulties they went through, they always stuck together.
Overall, the song 'Sag mir wie' by LEA shows the intensity and depth of a past relationship and the difficulty of dealing with it and forgetting it.