| Natalie Merchant – My Skin Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To me this song is several different stories. In the beginning she's showing someone her scars, "Take a look at my body Look at my hands There's so much here that I don't understand" and then remembering all the lies that person told her before, things like 'I won't tell" or "It'll be okay" and she's realizing she doesn't need them anymore. Then she goes on to remember that so many people have tried to help her that she's become untouchable and nothing they do can reach her. The chorus, the part about being in the dark and needing it,is her claiming she doesn't need anything and she's fine the way she is, self-harming, or maybe even having an eating disorder. And then she also realizes that this thing she things the needs is killing her from the inside out. She goes on to say that all the promises people made her are supposed to make it easier, but she doesn't need that. She's untouchable, and so their words don't help her or hurt her. I've been treated so wrong I've been treated so long That's her treatment in a hospital, and how it was wrong for her and lasted too long. As if I'm becoming untouchable She thinks that bmaybe it's been going on for long enough that nothing can hurt her anymore. I'm the slow dying flower In the frost killing hour Sweet turning sour and untouchable She's dying "in the frost killing hour" maybe in the afternoon, and she's going from a sweet person to a sour person, but she's still untouchable. One of the reasons I think the girl might be an anorexic is that Ana girls are usually cold if they don't have enough body fat on them, and so she could be frosting over so to speak, and she's become so cold that when it gets better, or brighter, she starts to die more. Then she's saying that she needs all of it, the darkness and the sweetness, and everything. She needs someone who can sing her a lullaby and kiss her goodnight. I think that at this point she's more talking to whoever she was showing her scars to, saying she needs her disease, but she also needs them. Well is it dark enough Can you see me Do you want me Can you reach me Oh, I'm leaving You better shut your mouth And hold your breath And kiss me now And catch your death Oh, I mean this Oh, I mean this To me this part is her warring emotions about what's going on. On one hand she's asking herself if things have gotten bad enough to let other people help her, but she's also asking her companion if he\she wants her or needs her, or even sees her. Then she says she's leaving, maybe leaving life or their relationship, but changes her mind and decides, no, this person is going to stop everything, hold their breath and catch what I have, even if it kills them, because she needs it. She needs this person, and she would rather they were miserable with her than she left and was alone and truly "untouchable" I'm not sure if this is right, but it's how I see the song. The girl could be a recovering anorexic, torn between her need to be skinny and her desire to get better, or maybe someone who is bipolar and is torn between two states of mind. Either way, I love this song, it's so haunting. |
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| Emilie Autumn – Save You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Although all these comments have sound logic, I think it might be about her abortion. She didn't want her child to be bipolar too, but at the same time she didn't want it to die. | |
| Emilie Autumn – 306 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I usually think about Ophelia when I hear this. Ophela went crazy and drowned herself, and she was a character in a book so "and the black plot thickens" kinda works. I always thought that it was someone(EA herself, possibly) thinking about how her suicide was like Ophelia's( about a girl, and this is funny, took her life but what she didn't know...) It's just a though, as I have never heard of the whole bodies in a river thing. That's probably the actual meaning, but I figured I'd add my two cents | |
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