She paints her fingers with a close precision
He starts to notice empty bottles of gin
And takes a moment to assess the sin she's paid for...
A lonely speaker in a conversation
Her words are swimming through his ears again
There's nothing wrong with just taste of what you paid for
Say what you mean
Tell me I'm right and let the sun rain down on me
Give me a sign
I wanna believe
Whoa, Mona Lisa, you're guaranteed to run this town
Whoa, Mona Lisa, I'd pay to see you frown
He senses something, call it desperation. Another dollar, another day and if she had the proper words to say, she'd tell them, but she'd have nothing left to sell him...
Say what you mean
Tell me I'm right and let the sun rain down on me
Give me a sign I wanna believe
Whoa, Mona Lisa, you're guaranteed to run this town
Whoa, Mona Lisa, I'd pay to see you frown
Oh Mona Lisa
Say what you mean
Tell me I'm right and let the sun rain down on me give me a sign
I wanna believe
Whoa, Mona Lisa, you're guaranteed to run this town
Whoa, Mona Lisa, I'd pay to see you frown
Say what you mean
Tell me I'm right and let the sun rain down on me
Give me a sign
I wanna believe
There's nothing wrong with just a taste of what you paid for....
Meaning of the song: I think the song is a bit of an inner struggle. Take "he" and "she" to be two sides of a person's personality. "She" being a bit of the devil, trying to coax the good in the person that "there's nothing wrong with just a taste of what you've paid for", as if tempting him to do something immoral. In the first two stanzas, it introduces the two sides, and the bottles of gin suggest the "vice" that is "her" (remember the album name is vices and virtues).
"Say what you mean, tell me I'm right" is sort of an argument between the two sides, and the person with the two sides later goes on to say "give me a sign, I wanna believe", as if to say he doesn't know what to do or what to believe.
As for the chorus, it may imply that Mona Lisa is in fact the person with this inner struggle, but on the surface, she looks proud and fine "guaranteed to run this town", and always seeming happy on the outside, "I'd pay to see you frown"
"He senses something, call it desperation" sort of later implies that the virtue is winning, because the vice has "nothing left to sell him", so it no longer has a hold on the person anymore.
In the end, it appears the virtue has won, and the final line is either a cry or an echo of the vice, or maybe the fact that the virtue has come to accept a part of the vice, with the final line previously said by "her", "there's nothing wrong with just a taste of what you've paid for"
That's just what I think, probably not really true.
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