Aching to Pupate

to me, as a angsty teenager, this song is about a girl who is going through adolescense and is herself, her joyful happy self who enjoys life. such lines as

"or i'll jump on the bed waltzing madly with the broomstick but before i leave the house i will fill my lips with lipstick"

and

"i'll stand on a street corner all mysterious and giddy"

suggest that to me.

but then:

"but peddling is a dirty sport lots of competition in the city everyone is on a street corner all mysterious and giddy"

there are other girls. this girl wants to receive attention and admiration, for the beauty of herself she is discovering. (the butterflies she is selling)

"some are selling bags and shoes some are selling books and gold i've been standing here for days not one butterfly's been sold"

the problem is, these other girls have things that people want, that people will give attention to. "bags and shoes, books and gold"

and she wants attention and love, a lot: "and how i'm aching to pupate"

so, basically, regina is singing about me.

i just see this as funny narrative song. just random, and cute. "i will fill my lips with lipstick!"

Working on a butterfly farm is so Regina.

i think its about how people no longer pay attention to inner beauty, like the butterfly inside her coat...

I think that it's about a girl going through puberty, and how all the other girls are pretty but she's not. So she's aching to pupate in the way that she wants to sleep and then wake up an adult. She wants to skip the akward phase and she just wants to change.

Obviously? Ugly Hooker? I can understand how you would come to that conclusion, but I don't think that's what the song is about...To me it's just really fun imagery about selling butterflies, and about waiting to get through puberty...To finally transform! I am kind of reminded in the rose petal scene in American Beauty: A girl opens up her trenchcoat and a flood of beautiful butterfiles fly out...Cool...It's also sad, beacuse no one wants to buy butterflies, they don't mind matericalistic things like bags and shoes, but no one wants a peice of real beauty...sigh...

butterflies pupate when they turn from caterpillars to their butteryfly form. def. to go through a pupal stage (The nonfeeding stage between the larva and adult in the metamorphosis of holometabolous insects, during which the larva typically undergoes complete transformation within a protective cocoon or hardened case).

Of course, this is symbolic of her longing to change...

i read that she wrote this while working on a butterfly farm.

Ooooh, I love this song. It's like she just picked up a book on butterflies and was like "Hey...that word is cool." =]

this song is so pretty, but it makes me sad, how she was so excited about her beautiful idea to brighten up and beautify the city and then no one wants to buy the butterflies and how disappointing that must be.

and her want to transform into something beautiful as well is so pretty, ahhhh! i just cant get enough of this song.