| Sinead O'Connor – Troy Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Well she did say this about the song " “But a song like Troy : I wrote that when I was 17, when my mother died and I don’t feel angry like that anymore. I don’t feel that terrible pain that I felt then.” She talked about some of the abuse from her mother here:http://exclaim.ca/music/article/sinead_oconnor-nothing_compares_2_her So I think it's about conflicting feelings after an abusive mother's death. |
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| Alexz Johnson – Skin Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I always interpreted about being about abuse by a family member. A lot of the stuff she says is stuff victims of abuse tell ourselves, like: "Is this a dream or is this my lesson" A lot of us feel at fault for what happened, feel like it's happening because we were bad. I still feel "bad" and it's so many years later. "I drift away to a place Another kind of life Take away the pain I create my paradise" This reminds me of dissociation, which often can be exactly that. When I dissociate it makes me feel like I'm outside of my body. "Is it a crime, am I overreacting?" Victims of abuse tend to tell ourselves this, that maybe we're just overreacting. "Braids have been un-tied As ribbons fall away" I interpret this about being of the feeling of a loss of innocence. "Oh my permission to sin You might have started my reckoning I've got a reason now to bury him alive Another little white lie" I think her abuser manipulated her into lying about what happened to her, but now she's considering telling someone about his abuse. "I've got a reason now to bury him alive." I dunno, this is a really important song to me. I'm not saying that my interpretation is what Alexz Johnson intentionally wrote it as being about but it's something that definitely can be read into the song. |
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