This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
We found an old doll
That was out in the grass
She has special powers
We set a black mass
We sat in a circle
All holding hands
The doll's been held together
With old rubber bands
She'll rise
She'll rise
She'll rise
I'll lay her down in her gingebread coffin
She's so pretty, all laid out in white
Lay her down in her gingerbread coffin
When we need her she'll rise in the light
We'll look down at the ground
And into her eyes
Passed around an old teacup
Filled up with dead flies
Surprise
Surprise
We brought, but not used
A collecton of knives
We'll remember this moment
Through all of our lives
She'll rise
She'll rise
She'll rise
Oh
I'll lay her down in her gingerbread coffin
She's so pretty, all laid out in white
Lay her down in her gingerbread coffin
When we need her, she'll rise in the light
Lay her down in her gingerbread coffin
It's a flickering, beautiful sight
Lay her down in her gingerbread coffin
When we need her, she'll rise to the night...
That was out in the grass
She has special powers
We set a black mass
We sat in a circle
All holding hands
The doll's been held together
With old rubber bands
She'll rise
She'll rise
She'll rise
I'll lay her down in her gingebread coffin
She's so pretty, all laid out in white
Lay her down in her gingerbread coffin
When we need her she'll rise in the light
We'll look down at the ground
And into her eyes
Passed around an old teacup
Filled up with dead flies
Surprise
Surprise
We brought, but not used
A collecton of knives
We'll remember this moment
Through all of our lives
She'll rise
She'll rise
She'll rise
Oh
I'll lay her down in her gingerbread coffin
She's so pretty, all laid out in white
Lay her down in her gingerbread coffin
When we need her, she'll rise in the light
Lay her down in her gingerbread coffin
It's a flickering, beautiful sight
Lay her down in her gingerbread coffin
When we need her, she'll rise to the night...
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Gingerbread Coffin Lyrics as written by Melora Creager
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Exact quote from Melora herself regarding this song..
"I think kids and children can naturally be pretty dark if left to their own devices. It's always been pretty important to me in my life to keep child-like feelings alive and not to forget what that's like. So with that song, I remember doing weird stuff with my friends like hiding in the bushes and making weird ceremonies. I was just trying to recapture that feeling."
There ya go. =)
"Sometimes kids do some pretty freaky things and don't realize how very disturbing it is to an adult's point of view." Of course the reverse is true too.
white is symobic of innocence, and it does relate to the loss of innocence in children i believe.
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I think this song is about the fantasies of children regarding toys and the like. They found a doll in the grass and just knew she had powers. They went on to create and perform rituals.
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I agree with Cliomouse. Children tend to be very ritualistic. This song reminds me of my childhood and all the wierd little things me and my best friend used to do. beautiful song.
Yea. Sad, though, that adults so easily find things 'disturbing'. Aside from that, lovely song.
freaky?! i think its lovely!!!! children getting round, learnign bout the wonders of the world....nice. :) miss those days when we were young. but then again, i can still have funn....more like this song. :D
Wrong. You guys don't understand Goth. Not trying to be insulting, but it's about an aesthetic. It's about death. It's pure Goth. It's not about children, really.
Omg. I hate uptight goth people... get a life. You're not goth, so stop obsessing about it and go cry under the moonlight in some park somewhere...