| The Antlers – Two Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Keeping the song within the storyline of the album, I think of it as everything that's happened to her from when she first got cancer (it returned when she grew older) up until just before her death. "You were just a little kid, and they cut your hair Then they stuck you in machines, you came so close to dying They should have listened, they thought that you were lying" She got cancer when she was little and "they cut your hair" is the hair loss in the chemotherapy process. She thought of herself as ugly and developed eating disorders. "Tell me when you think that we became so unhappy Wearing silver rings with nobody clapping When we moved here together we were so disappointed Sleeping out of tune with our dreams disjointed" They had a rushed marriage "with nobody clapping" (no one was at their wedding) and afterwards they were reconsidering their marriage. "It killed me to see you getting always rejected" She tried to get jobs but no one would take her because they knew her cancer was back and they wouldn't take someone with a terminal illness She was frustrated and angry with the cancer returning instead of upset and accepting death, in a constant "why me?" stage. She can't take out her anger by talking to anyone ("No one's gonna listen, and no one understands") so she has to physically abuse her husband to get it out. He loves her, so he doesn't mind. "There's no open doors, there's no way to get through" It's a terminal illness, and there's no way she can come out of it alive. Here it comes in that she has a multiple personality disorder, perhaps as a result of the cancer destroying her emotionally as well as physically, and her entire life is written out in a matter of lines. "There's two people living in one small room From your two half-families tearing at you Two ways to tell the story (no one worries) Two silver rings on our fingers in a hurry Two people talking inside your brain Two people believing that I'm the one to blame Two different voices coming out of your mouth" Again, it suggests a rushed marriage, and then a multiple personality disorder. "Two people talking inside your brain" and "Two different voices coming out of your mouth". It's impossible to deny that it's a brilliant song and a brilliant album, whatever your interpretation. |
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