Walk Like A Champion, Talk Like A Champion

What he is saying here isn’t something that is meant to be harmful or possessive. Although, if you really think about it, love often is. No matter how sane you are, loving a single person does make one a bit possessive. That’s just human nature.

Now, that is not to say that a person has the right to own you or be toxically obsessed with you, because that’d be a complete violation of your basic human rights and could turn into abuse, but love is harmful most of the time. No one’s perfect. And when you’re in love with someone and you have feelings towards them, your first instinct is to want them to be as attached to you as you are to them.

The first line “I really like the idea of love as a violent act— not to the person you love, but against the world” is misinterpreted so that it seems like he has a messed up mentality for thinking that love being violent is good, but when you see it like this, it’s actually quite intriguing: love is peace, and comfort and all things fluffy and soft, right? Love is the opposite of violent: love is prosperity and beauty and never-ending happiness. So to say that love can -in any way- also be violent, is a reflection upon our own society. Because it is upon it that love becomes a form of violence.

Think about it; if love didn’t have society oppressing it, it wouldn’t have to fight back (become violent) in order to prevail. So in a way, love is rebellious and violent in its fight against people who judge its pureness. All the while also being all that is good in the world.

Furthermore, I think most of the confusion came from the last line in which he says “I love you- by extension, I hate all other things.”

Now, I think this was meant to be read into a bit more. I can admit that I can see why it gives off ‘possessive maniac’ vibes, but I think what he he truly means is that by loving this person, you are rebelling against the world. And by that he means the society we are currently in. The norms we have to “follow” in order to fit in which can, in many cases, be oppressive and controlling. Especially when it comes to loving who you want to freely.

So what the last line is really saying is “I choose you over what the rest of the world thinks or says.”

He isn’t really “acting” like he’s deep, he is deep. I recommend you go listen to his songs, you’ll probably get what I mean.