There’s also something to be said for the main refrain, “When I think about you, I touch myself.” Bringing back my point from a post a long time ago, about how masturbation is a way of getting in touch with one’s self, or experiencing eros (the ecstasy of being alive) at a deep level in that you experience being in your body, and it’s something only you can do to yourself and no one can do to you – then to say that someone brings her to touch herself – that’s the closest someone else can come to helping her experience that sort of eros that is normally between you and yourself. I no longer know who I am I know only that I want, and what I want is you. My self has been lost in my desire for you. I see you before me, as in I see you before I see all the things that have to do with myself. “I see you before me” as “I see you standing in front of me.” But one could also interpret it to mean she sees her love before she sees herself-meaning, her thoughts are so consumed by her love, that she no longer thinks of her day-to-day, her obligations, anything to do with herself herself has been overtaken by this other self. It’s quite catchy, and the lyrics are great: “I love myself, I want you to love me / When I feel down, I want you above me / I search myself, I want you to find me / I forget myself, I want you to remind me”… There’s a lot that could be unpacked there, but I was thinking about this one particular lyric – “I close my eyes, I see you before me.”Īt a surface level, this refers to the singer fantasizing about the physical presence, in close proximity, of her love interest. I was listening to a song by The Divinyls, I Touch Myself, released in 1990, an anthem to female pleasure, self-love, and other-love.