| Radical Face – Wrapped in Piano Strings Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i think the first part is a failed double suicide. he dies, but she lives. then the next part is him watching her going about her life (i think the 'apple from my eye' part is about vowing to stay with her/watch over when he's gone so she doesn't forget him). he watches her second suicide attempt ('blood ran into the kitchen sink, your hands and lives are running pink'), which also fails, because the next part is about her getting psychiatric treatment ('they cut your eyes wide open, and pour into your precious head'). she's being treated as if something's fundamentally wrong with her, which he doesn't want her to feel ('my reach don't go that far dear, but please, oh please, don't let them in'). so, she's still alive and miserable, and he's dead and miserable because he's without her ('few words could open me, but you knew them all'). his only comfort is that despite her "letting them in" with treatment and remaining alive ('i've seen the end, i've lost the war'), she will die one day like everyone else and finally be with him again ('one day you'll join me here just like the rest'). that's my take. |
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