10 Song Meanings EVERYONE Gets Wrong
7. There She Goes - The La's
Even with over 30 years in the rearview, it feels like the rock world still hasn't given the La's their just due. While being far from the first indie or college rock band, their first and only album is chock full of some of the most enduring classics in the alt-rock scene, having an impact on the Britpop movement and a young Noel Gallagher. And it all started with There She Goes... a beautiful song about the age-old topic of drug abuse.
Wait...what?
Yeah, the title might imply that the singer is addressing a girl, and yet there's something about this object of his affection that is a lot closer to narcotics than a woman. As he goes on and on about the way she makes him feel, it's unclear as to what kind of pleasure she provides him.
Just when you start putting the pieces together, one hell of a clue falls into your lap when he talks about her running through his veins.
No matter what kind of spiritual connectivity you might like to think of, that's an obvious reference to heroin that no one bothered to check. Hell, it didn't seem to even matter either, with Christian rock band Sixpence None the Richer going on to cover the song later.
Love can make you do strange things, but this is the kind of love that feels more akin to a disease than anything else.