Billie Eilish – hostage lyrics

Billie Eilish – hostage lyrics

[Verse 1]
I wanna be alone
Alone with you - does that make sense?
I wanna steal your soul
And hide you in my treasure chest

[Verse 2]
I don't know what to do
To do with your kiss on my neck
I don't know what feels true
But this feels right so stay a sec
Yeah, you feel right so stay a sec

[Chorus]
And let me crawl inside your veins
I'll build a wall, give you a ball and chain
It's not like me to be so mean
You're all I wanted
Just let me hold you

Like a hostage

[Verse 3]
Gold on your fingertips
Fingertips against my cheek
Gold leaf across your lips
Kiss me until I can't speak

[Verse 4]
Gold chain beneath your shirt
The shirt that you let me wear home
Gold's fake and real love hurts
And nothing hurts when I'm alone
When you're with me and we're alone

[Chorus]
And let me crawl inside your veins
I'll build a wall, give you a ball and chain
It's not like me to be so mean
You're all I wanted
Just let me hold you
Hold you

Like a hostage
Like a hostage

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Songwriters: Billie Eilish O'Connell, Finneas Baird O'Connell

hostage lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group

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A7 2020-10-28 08:16:09

I think this song is supposed to be about how she loves this guy so much to the point where she is afraid that someone will take him from her or he will leave her. Since she is afraid that he will leave or someone will take him from her she tries to keep him near her only trying to keep him to herself sort of like a hostage. The reason she does this is because she never experienced love like his which is why she describes him like he's really special with the lyrics,"Gold on your fingertips
Fingertips against my cheek
Gold leaf across your lips
Kiss me until I can't speak."

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Unregistered 2020-04-30 15:06:53

I feel like this song is supposed to be her like trying so hard to love someone, but there’s just a subconscious that doesn’t like it and puts up a wall between her and her desire to love, and then her subconscious is trying to “protect” her from harm but it all ends up a disaster.

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Unregistered 2020-12-09 18:33:10

I think this song is about how she's never felt this kind of love before so all she wants to do with her partner is have some time with him, just him and her and nobody else. And in the 2nd verse where she says kiss me until I can't speak I think what that means is that she wants him to make out with her until she is speechless an golds fake and real love hurts but nothing hurts when i'm Alone And I think that means that If she thinks about him being with someone else or leaving her that she will feel alone and she doesn't want to feel alone because she loves him so much. So when she says just let me hold you like a hostage she means that she wants him to go nowhere she just wants him all to herself.

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