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Hi! I frequently dropped by this place to find out what the songs that I was currently working on (singing/dancing) meant--until I just felt a sudden urge to share my interpretation of what some of the songs meant! c: Hope to have lots of fun on here! :D
| Zola Jesus – Skin Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The way I understood this song was that it was about suicide. To be quite honest, it was a little gruesome for me because my dance teacher initially taught us a choreography to this song, I loved it, then I went home to look up the lyrics. Here's how I saw it: safety net don't hold me now in this hole i've fallen down *'It's like even though there might be something or someone (the safety net) that tries to pull me out of this shit I'm in, it just gets worse and worse. They can't do anything about it.' secret home i've made and found a new way to breathe *Like what the person above me (gomenasai) had said, this is the one place/thing that she loves. 'Even though I know in my heart that I should get out of whatever this bad thing is, I like it. A lot. It's new way to finally relax, and actually feel happy--even if it's just temporary.' skin come off skin come off i've had enough, ooh ooh skin come off *This is like her 'old skin' coming off, she's reborn again. 'I've had enough of not letting others hear me out, I've had enough of others judging me, I've had enough of others hurting me, I've had enough of always being the codependent one, I've had enough. I am no longer that person, I am now me. I am now who I want to be. I am now happy.' and in the sickness, you have faith and in the thickness you'll find me finally *Like gomenasai had said, it definitely means that when someone is sick (whether it be physically or not) they usually have faith, that they will heal. 'But I had no hope, no faith. I couldn't see the light, so I just ended my life...when you eventually die, you will find me in the one place where time is slow (because thickness)...where there is no time at all. Endless, but not. Endlessly happy. Finally.' in the city, you find pain and the people you see there that remind you of your own let it go *This part is pretty self-explanatory. You start seeing so much crap and pain that these people carry all over the world, and it reminds you of how much more imperfect you are than they are....and then 'let it go' is like saying 'I give up. I don't have to deal with this anymore. I'm free.' you don't have to beg finally *Her loved ones are begging her not to go, but she's implying that she'll be fine. 'You'll find me after death. We'll be united once again, except this time, we'll be happy. Finally.' Like I said, it was kind of a shock to me the way I perceived this song. Perhaps it's because I'm able to relate to the song a lot--I don't know. But in any case, this song is hauntingly beautiful. Typing all of my personal interpretations out like this will help me out a lot in my dance piece to this song. Woo hoo! So, thank you. :-) |
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