An intriguing interpretation of these lyrics is that is it from the perspective of the person found in Discotheque. He claims not to be much and in effect, not what she’s really after which is true love rather than lust, but he goes along if she’s willing to (you can tear me up/ if you can tie me down). The chorus is him asking her if this is what she was looking for, if it’s enough for her. It isn’t however. Although she willingly fools herself into believing its real love (it looks like the sun) she knows from the resulting feeling inside her that it isn’t (but it feels like the rain).
Another opinion is that it’s a song about sex without love. The song is erotic, sexy. Adam’s bass is like the movements of somebody trying to seduce someone. The words are erotic, simple but each syllable packs a punch. The song is about instinct and sexual desire coming first and love second.
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Take these hands they’re good for nothing
You know these hands never worked a day
Take these boots they’re going nowhere
You know these boots don’t want to stray
You got my head filled with songs
You got my shoelaces undone
Take my shirt, go on take it off me
You can tear it up
If you can tie me down
Do you feel loved?
Do you feel loved?
Do you feel loved?
Do you feel loved?
Take the colours of my imagination
Take the scent hanging in the air
Take this tangle of a coversation
And turn it into your own prayer
With my fingers as you want them
With my nails under your hide
With my teeth at your back
And my tongue to tell you the sweetest lies
Do you feel loved?
Do you feel loved?
Do you feel loved?
And it looks like the sun
But it feels like the rain
Love’s a bully pushing and shoving
In the belly of a woman
Heavy rhythm taking over
To stick together
A man and a woman
Stick together
Man and woman
Stick together…
And I feel loved
Do you feel loved?
Do you feel loved?
And it looks like the sun
But it feels like the rain
And there’s heat in the sun
To see us through the rain
Do you feel loved?
Do you feel loved?
Do you feel loved?
Do you feel loved?
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