Magic Doors

One reason that the lyrics are vague instead of really specific is that people could relate to them and make different interpretations, but I definitely see nothing wrong in interpreting that a woman singing about a woman in the way she does in, say, Rip, means that the song is about battling with accepting your own sexuality.

Of course that's just one interpretation, and the larger themes are, indeed, self acceptance and the pressure of the society in general and such. But conversely, I think that songs dealing with self-acceptance, self-hatered and living outside of societal norms just happen to fit very well into the gay-mould (haha), because that's what many non-heterosexuals feel incredibly strongly, as the outside world manifests its heterosexuality almost constantly in very subtle yet powerful ways.

Still, I personally find sad is that when someone suggests that an artist is trying to communicate the difficult feelings a gay person has, users here at songmeanings get defensive, as if liking such a song would mean that they themselves are gay, or that it's somehow improper to discuss that subject in songs. But I think this says more about the world in which we live than the people writing those comments.

I remember reading in a thread there that somebody thought Morrissey's Piccadilly Palare couldn't be about gays, because "he's way too smart to write something like that". Yeah. Right. :)