A Rhetorical Analysis On Skinny Love

At face front, skinny love can be explicitly viewed as a song about anorexia and mental illness. This could be assumed due to its title and often repeated lyrics “skinny love” like they are in love with being skinny or some sort of illness. Skinny love, although contrary to popular belief is actually an implicit metaphor for a poor or destructive relationship, suffering, and withering. It's about love gone sour, and a relationship where the love has faded and the relationship is weak. However, I believe the proper term should be “anorexic love” because he is trying to inject all the love he can into the relationship, but it seems as if she keeps rejecting it and letting the love waste away. This song’s meaning can be further perceived to be

So he is almost sarcastically telling her to wreck it all, all they've been through before the love withered and to throw away the little love they've savored between them. He knows the break is going to happen so he’s trying to tell himself to cut off his emotions and fall out of love so it won’t hurt as bad. This can be most explicitly perceived as a cry, telling her to let him go, to cut off the tethers binding him to her. It can also be inferred that he doesn't want her to “cut him free” but he is tired of fighting for what seems to be already dead love, so he just wants to give up and that's all he wants (Right in this moment this order's tall). This is another way of saying you are asking too much out of something. As much as he wants to cut his emotions, he knows it’s not a feat he can carry out. He loved her too much (or loved the idea of the relationship too much) and knows he can’t just fall out of love right on the spot.

"And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be

It gives us the impression that she has indeed decided to walk away and not give him the chance to fix their withering love. He’s also saying that if the breakup happens, any love she managed to have for him is wasted. He feels like her love was all that ever mattered, and that anything good he felt about himself was because of that great feeling being loved gives you, so he defined himself through her love and the relationship. As a result, if her love was just a big waste, what does that make him? Him “breaking at the britches” just means he’s falling apart now and with this, he is also “at the end of all of his lines”. An example of this is the bus line and now he’s at the end of any line that bus could take him. He can’t even transfer to another bus because there are no more buses that will take him any