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Fiona Apple – Paper Bag Lyrics 13 years ago
me 2.

The hands 'too shaky to hold', are not his, but her own, as I understand it.

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Fiona Apple – Get Him Back Lyrics 13 years ago
At the surface. it is obviously a song about the voice's/Apples negative male relationship experience.
Except that the first one mentioned probably doesn't refer to a real relationship, beyond the deep impact of it. I'd concede that it is unlikely to be about Apples relationship to Blaine, when there is a much more likely candidate to consider.

More to the point, though, I'd say that this song is about the deepseated, charged fury of a person obsessing with negative relationships and trying to finally turn the obsessive charge on its head towards a partner more sensitive to her needs, so as to reengage in a positive relation w the world/a special someone, by trying harder, through the energetic charge.

(someone expressed delight in the 'venomous' tone of the lyrics. I'd name the tone 'reptilian' - thinking of the special, primitive grammar,in conjunction w the growling tone of the lyrical content)

Great rythmic and vocalic flow.
Best wishes on her

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