| Tokyo Police Club – Bambi Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think the song is about inheriting alcoholism from his mother. She comes home drunk, and even though she tries to hide it from him, he still sees it. "Turning into black and white" it becomes a memory. "Barely awake but I still got my stripes" She did a pretty good job of hiding it, but it still had an effect on him. He has all these memories of his mom abusing alcohol interwoven with some of his other childhood memories of her. Now that he's inherited the alcoholism, he can reflect back on this blur of memories and process them, realizing his mom is "the killer with a colored kite." In other words, he now understands that she was drunk and was indirectly "killing" him by exposing him to it and passing it on even though she was also doing her best as a mom. He seems to acknowledge that he understands it was a difficult time for his mom and why she was drinking when he says "a tiny kingdom at the bottom of the trees, where I was always a winner and I was usually right." That line implies that she was feeling down like a loser, and that she felt like she was making mistakes or being wrong. Maybe his parents were going through a divorce? In the next part "where I was always a winner and I was barely alone", implies she was either alone now or at least feeling lonely without the alcohol. Great song. BTW, pretty sure it says "barely awake" not "buried awake." |
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