| Purity Ring – Belispeak Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Purity Ring's explanation of the song: http://pitchfork.com/news/43641-rising-purity-ring/ | |
| Purity Ring – Belispeak Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The lyrics remind me of a twisted version of Little Red Riding Hood, where the wolf and Little Red's mother are both played by the "Grandma", who is threatening if not abusive toward her, she's the villain, while she's still Little Red's only guardian. And Little Red flees from her situation, tries to escape from the woods (grandma my hands have wandered / my little legs are getting weak), after thinking of it so many times (I’ve been unruly / in my dreams and with my speech). It sounds ridiculous but I think she falls in a pond, and she's too exhausted to struggle, so she lets herself drown and her corpse rots in the water (the water is rising / my boundless hair has gotten green / I'll be your swimming forest island). I think the whole song is about her being a spirit and telling her Grandma that she forgives her behaviour. Her sleep is narrow, because her soul isn't at peace. She's a part of the forest now that she died in it, that's why she says that her Grandma walks safely over her. She's soil, so the holes her Grandma "drills into her eyelids" are just holes she digs in the earth for her vegetables or whatever. And the "strong drink" and the "pulps" her Grandma sets outside remind me of the food we put outside when a pet runaways, hoping it will come back to eat it. So maybe the Grandma still thinks Little Red isn't dead. Now that I've written it down it sounds a bit absurd and incomplete, but that's how I interpret this song. (Oh, and sorry if I made unforgivable grammar mistakes, I'm French!) |
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