| Ani DiFranco – Marrow Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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It’s delayed grief. An emotionally abusive relationship. The stockpiling is referring to making a foundation for a long term relationship - hunkering down, as it were. It ended. He probably looked for her. But she was nothing more the sparks from his smoke. Mired in the marrow has a kind of double meaning. The bone and the vegetable. You become mired in grief, unable to see the meaning of things. But she has started to address it. Seems like therapy “uncorking bottles” - secrets, hidden thoughts. “Filling up cups” addressing these things. Toasting - has she met him after all these years? Are the letters a therapy technique? It’s almost a reference to AA - maybe he was a drinker and wrote to her to apologise? For AA it’s the act of writing the letter or reaching out that is cathartic, not necessarily how the apology lands. So it would be more of a letter to himself. Overall I’d say it’s the result of some therapy she had to address a relationship where she felt used. |
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