Don’t Call Tonight

[Free My Mind 2,189]

Random thought and might be silly (probably)

but does anybody think Don’t Call Tonight might be in some way about Joe?

it was the line ‘in the mirror I get weak, at the girl staring back at me, they’re your eyes, they’re your eyes’

and then I thought ‘I can hear everything you’re saying from here…’ could be about how vocal he is in the media.

Not totally sure on this, and obviously I don’t really know what their relationship is these days but just a thought 

 

[lastpopicon 13,545]

This theory has been brought up a couple of times, I'm leaning towards believing it tbh, it's heartbreaking

[elegidadedios 1,809]

Kinda makes sense but I think there are many songs here which she didn't write on a personal level, like this whole new record is also a new approach in terms of her writing and I find that quite interesting

[River 111,642]

"tomorrow you'll desert me" is because he already did it in the past.

[Kayi 2,284]

I don't interpret it this way, but Mayhem is very opened to many interpretations, probably the most brillant songwriting of a Gaga album since ARTPOP. 

I think it follows the idea of the gothic theme of the dual personality. The eyes in the mirror are probably Mistress of Mayhem's red eyes that she mentionned in The Beast. It's a possession.

When she says she can hear what the other character says it might refers to the lies and promises that Mistress of Mayhem said in "Disease".

I feel like MAYHEM is a whole experience cause without the visuals it would be harder to name the characters.

[Bronco 8,556]

I feel like this and a few other songs have more than one narrative woven into them by Gaga. And probably deliberately so. 

[vmpiregrn 703]

“And in the mirror I get weak at the girl staring back at me

They’re your eyes”

I thought the song was about Joe from the beginning too.

Even though (imo) Gaga’s eyes look more like Cynthia’s she does in a way have both her mother *and* father’s eyes — not in the sense that they look like both of theirs, but in the sense that her father’s genes are a part of her as much as her mother’s. Her father helped create her eyes. She may have a strained relationship with her father and may at times dislike him, but to dislike a parent is in a way to dislike a piece of yourself. No matter how different you think you are from your parents, you objectively, from a biological standpoint, have far more in common with them than without.