| The Antlers – Bear Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree with most everything wyliekyle has already posted. However I disagree with the following points: "We'll script another show" in my opinion means one of two things, I'm not sure which one though. First, perhaps they must now rewrite a new chapter in their "post abortion" lives; one that includes the strangeness and sense of dislocation felt between young lovers that choose to destroy something they have accidentally and unfortunately created. Something this real in the lives of young people inevitably leads to a sense of fractured reality. They are no longer playing young people's games and they are not at all ready for the reality of such an adult decision. Or maybe it means that they must continue lying about her pregnancy to their friends. This second possibility seems to be a bit weak as it doesn't take into account the fact that their friends have already begun dodging their phone calls as a response to their new role as pregnant outcasts in their social clique. Both are tenuous but I think they are a bit closer to what is actually meant. The real reason for my post is to respond to wylikyle's belief about the young couple not actually getting the abortion. When he writes "I'll know we're fucked. Not getting unfucked soon" he is stating that their relationship is "fucked," or no longer sustainable once the procedure is complete. He is aware that while she makes him sit in the waiting room (she won't have him near her and doesn't want him there for support)he is simply beginning the end of their relationship. He is waiting out their demise. After the abortion they will be "bigger strangers than we've ever been before" and he will have to watch her "sit in front of snowy television, suitcase on the floor." The snowy television acts as a metaphor for their broken and disconnected relationship and her suitcase is packed as she is leaving him. Just a thought. |
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