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soiled my jeans lie in heaps beneath me
blood marrs the sheets and they stain so easily
swollen wrists, knees, and you swelled inside me
and it took nine months to destroy my body
I was the dancer
my head filled with laughter
and then the disaster
you came sometime after
I was young then
full of grace then
but oh, resentments
l. o. v. e. scratched your name into me
f. a. c. e. and it's traces of me
curls round your cheeks, christ, you looked just like me
when you took nine months to destroy my body
now I'm in my bed
you tore me asunder
and years after labor
its all I remember
I was young then
full of grace then
but oh, resentments
blood marrs the sheets and they stain so easily
swollen wrists, knees, and you swelled inside me
and it took nine months to destroy my body
my head filled with laughter
and then the disaster
you came sometime after
full of grace then
but oh, resentments
f. a. c. e. and it's traces of me
curls round your cheeks, christ, you looked just like me
when you took nine months to destroy my body
you tore me asunder
and years after labor
its all I remember
full of grace then
but oh, resentments
Song Info
Submitted by
sithie On Jun 16, 2006
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Well... For me, it's the story of a woman who stop her career (she was dancer) to have a child. I think "the disaster" means complications during her pregnancy which weakened her body.
The delivery was very hard too. "you tore me asunder"
She couldn't dance for a long time, but she didn't lost hope and has worked hard to dance again. But when it finally succeeded, people told her she was now too old.
That's why she's resentful, finally she thought that she shouldn't have a child and should continue her career.
a. maz. ing.
you tore me asunder*
and then the disaster you came sometime after
I was young then full of grace then
that part is very similar to Mirah's "mount saint helen's" hmm
"then the disaster" - rape "you came sometime after" - child resulted from it
That's why she's resentful
It's not necessarily a rape. If she resents the child, the conception is a "disaster" whether she consented or not.
It's not necessarily a rape. If she resents the child, the conception is a "disaster" whether she consented or not.
It's about a resentful mother.
I think that's worse than an ungrateful child.