Come undone
 

Well, I give up, I have searched the net in vain.

What does "come undone" mean????? :(


Like in "She's come undone" with The Guess Who.

It's become quite a popular line in resent lyrics, and I just don't get it. Is it, like, she returned without being able to do what she aimed for... or what?

Some of my friends thinks it means that she died, but that seems unlikely to me.

Buggers... help out will ya!

it just means... inside out.

deep into depression.

not what she was that we are usually used to.

she's come undone.

think about shoelaces for a minute here.

something to do with instability

"Who do you need? Who do you love? When you come undone."

-Duran Duran, (though the cover by Homegrown is pretty good. Faster pace.)

Think of it this way. If you lose control, be it with anger or depression, you come undone. It is more simple than you are making it. If your life is your hand with an apple and you let go, it falls apart. Your grip has come undone. Just simplify it.

Jdoe

It means she got bare buck nekkid yo

Asta!!

So then , it would be one of those expressions that could mean a number of things (hence its popularity), like:

She's depressed
She's lost her grip on things (lost control)
She's got undressed (like with her buttons undone)


That's it then?

I would go with 'She's lost her grip on things (lost control)' for most situations. From there depending on the context. But yes, you've got it now.

JDoe

This is a good example of a song about someone coming undone. "She's Lost Control" by Joy Division. Don't know why I'm posting, maybe because it is the first song I thought of when reading this thread... besides the Duran Duran song, anyway.

Confusion in her eyes that says it all --
She's lost control
And she's clinging to the nearest passerby
She's lost control
And she gave away the secrets of her past
And said "I've lost control again."
And heard the voice that told her
when and where to act
She said "I've lost control again".

And she turned to me and took me by the hand
And said "I've lost control again"
And how I'll never know just why
or understand
She said "I've lost control again"
And she screamed out, kicking on her side
and said "I've lost control again"
And seized up on the floor --
I thought she'd died
She said "I've lost control again"
She's lost control again --
she's lost control

Yeah he's right if you wanna know the meaning it's right there in the lyrics. She's Come Undone basically means she's lost her mind, overexerted herself, tried to do too much.

Asta!!

come undone == mental breakdown.

She? Me?

Typo Ill fix it.

Asta!!

thanks K-Wise. Believe me, with a name like Anleja, I get thought of as a female quite often.