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"…to the ones who had the displeasure of sleeping with me"
Brian Molko closed the nineties with the writing of this piece, the third single from the successful Without You I’m Nothing.
The 1800s offspring's nihilism pervades with an incessant critique of fairy tale love. The inevitability of corrosion is attributed to an extinguished fire, exaggerating negativity as usual in the Placebo world.
Trivial love opens every verse, a partner who wrinkles and clings to the banality of things.
“My heart is a whore, your body is for sale – my body is broken, yours is tired”
From a musical point of view, a devious riff introduces the driving drums of Steve Hewitt (more essential in the single mix version and slightly beefed up in the album version).
The film Cruel Intentions uses the piece as the opening credits soundtrack, perfectly fitting the plot (which the band leader already knew having read the novel from which the film is adapted, Dangerous Liaisons).
This year, an unreleased version of the music video, originally discarded in 1999, was published on the Placebo social channels. In it, the band members are accompanied by their clones/doubles inside a dark casino (in all their androgynous style), with Brian subsequently escaping into an Orwellian setting as the song ends.
“Every you, every me” refers exactly to the dynamics of the pointless relationship carried on by habitual clichés. Personalities impossible to silence and tamed as if they were dogs.
Every You Every Me is the perfect anti-love song that only the likes of Molko, Brett Anderson or Greg Dulli could have conceived with such class in that decade.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Every You Every Me (03:34)
Sucker love is heaven sent
You pucker up, our passion's spent
My hearts a tart your body's rent
My body's broken yours is bent
Carve your name into my arm
Instead of stressed I lie here charmed
'Cause there's nothing else to do
Every me and every you
Sucker love a box I choose
No other box I choose to use
Another love I would abuse
No circumstances could excuse
In the shape of things to come
Too much poison come undone
'Cause there's nothing else to do
Every me and every you
Every me and every you
Every me
Sucker love is known to swing
Prone to cling and waste these things
Pucker up for heaven sake
There's never been so much at stake
I serve my head up on a plate
It's only comfort calling late
Cause there's nothing else to do
Every me and every you
Every me and every you
Every me
Every me and every you
Every me
Like the naked leads the blind
I know I'm selfish I'm unkind
Sucker love I always find
Someone to bruise and leave behind
All alone in space and time
There's nothing here but what here's mine
Something borrowed, something blue
Every me and every you
Every me and every you
Every me
Every me and every you
Every me
Every me and every you
Every me
Every me and every you
Every me
Every me and every you
Every me
Every me and every you
Every me
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