| Vienna Teng – Shasta (Carrie's Song) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is about a woman who drove to California to get an abortion, but she couldn't go through with it, and is driving home on highway 5, thinking about the recent events, and how her family is going to react to her situation, and her decision not to go through with it. "And you're thinking about how someone died that day, the you that was so carefully planned" This is a play on words - an allusion to the abortion that didn't happen. The "someone" who died was not the fetus as one might expect, but instead, Carrie's vision of herself. She had always imagined that she would have a normal life -- not one filled with the trauma that comes with the situation of an unwanted pregnancy. That vision of who she had always thought she was going to be -- the normal life -- "died" that day -- her life will never be the same going forward. |
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