| Marina and the Diamonds – Mowgli's Road Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Since Mowgli, the main character of "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling, was someone who didn't live in a human society and was raised by wolves, I think that the allusion she's making is that she wants to take "Mowgli's road" and not have to live a wealthy, pressured life. Not necessarily in the wild like Mowgli, but the pressure she feels is starting to drive her mad. (Hence the "We are the spoons, they're telling me" little bit.) "Ten silver spoons coming after me, One life with one dream on repeat." She lives in luxury, and the authority figures in her life are practically smothering her with their ideas. And "one life with one dream on repeat" could mean that these authority figures want her to take one path and one path only, and keep telling her to take it as though if they say it all the time, she'll end up believing it. "I'll escape if I try hard enough, Till King of the Jungle calls my bluff" She has tried for a very long time to act like this is what she wants, but at one point it just stops working. She knows what she wants and how to get it, but there are a lot of things and she has to take a chance and do what she wants to do quickly before her future is set down for her. She's sick of luxury, she realizes that there are more things out there for her. "Oh Lord, (Oh Lord) I have been told, (I have been told) I must take the unforsaken road (Forsaken road)." She's been told that she has to take the path that everyone else has taken, "forsaken" means given up, so the road that hasn't yet been given up on for her is the one that she's supposed to take. "Oh Lord," she's not happy about this. "There's a fork in the road, I'll do as as I am told, Well, I don't know, don't know, don't know, don't know, don't know Who, who I want to be." There is an opening for her, and even though she's afraid to take it, she knows that it's there and is always on the edge of taking it. However, she's unsure of where it might lead and even though her lifestyle is slowly strangling her, it protects her. She is unsure of who she is. "Cuckoo! You say Y-E-S to everything, Will that guarantee you a win? Do you think you will be good enough, To love others and to be loved?" Here I think she's lashing out at herself. She's ashamed of the way she is, and she is sick of saying yes to everything around her. She wants to make her own choice, and is almost mocking herself by saying "Do you think you will be good enough to love others and to be loved?" "Oh Lord, (Oh Lord) Now I can see, (Now I can see) The cutlery will keep on chasing me, (Forsaken road)" She realizes that whatever choice she makes will haunt her, the cutlery will keep chasing her. "There's a fork in the road, I'll do as as I am told, Well, I don't know, (Don't know, don't know, don't know, don't know) Who...I want to be. 'We are the spoons,' they're telling me 'We scooped our way into your dreams, To knock the knives out bloody cold, And lead you down the unforsaken road!'" Somebody, maybe her friends, is advising her and telling her that they'll help her along the way and the forsaken road is dangerous. The "knives" could be her rebellious streak, and whoever's advising her wants to knock them out so they no longer have to deal with this. They 'scooped their way into her dreams' and are trying to control her. Marina said in an interview that this was about how she wasn't sure who she wanted to be, I think she's referring to her relatives or friends wanting her to take a career path other than her dreams of being a singer. As we all know, she took the forsaken road and is an amazing artist because of it. Are You Satisfied is another song that has a similar meaning to this. Aside from all that, this is just an awesome song. |
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