| Tapping The Vein – Beautiful Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"'Cause these wicked boys brought their pieces and their itchy fingers" To me, it's unquestionably about rape. I also don't think she believes she's beautiful. I read it as: "I'm beautiful? I'm beautiful? Wake me - there must be some mistake." |
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| Tapping The Vein – Clean Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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She is standing on a train platform, and something inside is telling her to step off, to be "cut through clean" by the wheels of a train. She is transfixed by what is below her - death - and shudders to think what she would see if she looked behind her - at life. She might also mean that she is afraid of her past. Having "faith", being "strong" - it did nothing for her. She believes she was always "fated" to end up at this point - at the brink of death. So why not jump to her death and get it done with? "I could be clean and through" - she could be "clean" and pure in death rather than facing the mess of life, and "through" - over, finished, done with it. When she has a bad day, she falls off the "merry-go-round" - the smiling-faced routines and cycles of "healthy" society. She's already falling towards death, so she'll make the final decision and jump. |
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