Girl with One Eye

i'm not very familiar with F+tM, or even this song. Nonetheless, it's caught my attention, and my first impression doesn't look much like anything here, so i thought i'd share :-)

When i first heard this, i took it quite literally, and was pretty grossed out. But once i read through the lyrics while i listened, i got the impression that the girl with one eye is the narator at a younger age, when she was a kid, and how she's stifled her childllike self to be an adult.

"She told me not to step on the cracks I told her not to fuss and relax"

she's considering how she's changed from the time she was young to now--dropped her superstitions about walking on the sidewalk breaking her mother's back, etc.

"Well, her pretty little face stopped me in my tracks But now she sleeps with one eye open"

upon considering the differences, she's shocked by the contrast (as we often are.) i think this is how the little girl makes her cry.

"That's the price she paid" pretty self-explanitory, i guess.

"I took a knife and cut out her eye" the process of losing that blind innocence was painful, and self-inflicted.

"I took it home and watched it wither and die" it's gone. i don't think the "taking i home" is so important.

"Well, she's lucky that I didn't slip her a smile" ???

"That's why she sleeps with one eye open That's the price she paid" same as before.

"I said, hey, girl with one eye Get your filthy fingers out of my pie" she still feels some of her youthful self surfacing, and insists that she back off, and take her grubby little hands out of her business.

"I said, hey, girl with one eye I'll cut your little heart out cause you made me cry" she's not happy about this transition she's undergone (growing up), and takes it out on the little girl she used to be.

"I slipped my hand under her skirt I said don't worry, it's not gonna hurt" she promised herself that sex wasn't going to be a big deal. i don't think this part is her own hand, but stands more for the fact that her giving up her innocence was her own doing, rather than blaming whatever faceless guy she slept with.

"Oh, my reputation's kinda clouded with dirt" she doesn't hide the fact that she's not a little girl anymore, and people don't approve.

"That's why you sleep with one eye open That's the price you paid" her innocent self pays the price for this reputation she's developped by cutting out her eye.

this probably isn't the best way of explaining this idea. but... there it is :)