Ophelia is a character from "Hamlet" by Shakespeare. She's Hamlet's lover, she goes mad and commits suicide by drowning herself.
I found this song to be amazing, but ever so depressing. The girl in this song has the weight of the world on her shoulders. As an only child she bears all the dreams and expectations of her parents. She's been pushed to be perfect and it has all come at her so quickly.
At last she can make her own decisions. She's been dressed "for the fight" and is standing at the bridge between childhood and the life her parents have groomed her for.
But even if she wants to throw herself off this bridge (into the dirty water, like Ophelia, etc.) she can't because she's just a paper-doll for her parents, a toy to live out their ideals, incapable of making her own decisions because she's so crippled by their treatment of her.
Ophelia is a character from "Hamlet" by Shakespeare. She's Hamlet's lover, she goes mad and commits suicide by drowning herself.
I found this song to be amazing, but ever so depressing. The girl in this song has the weight of the world on her shoulders. As an only child she bears all the dreams and expectations of her parents. She's been pushed to be perfect and it has all come at her so quickly.
At last she can make her own decisions. She's been dressed "for the fight" and is standing at the bridge between childhood and the life her parents have groomed her for.
But even if she wants to throw herself off this bridge (into the dirty water, like Ophelia, etc.) she can't because she's just a paper-doll for her parents, a toy to live out their ideals, incapable of making her own decisions because she's so crippled by their treatment of her.