Breed

I always saw a parent/child relationship. the 'little clone/souvenir' parable being indicative of someone who grew up to have a child not because they wanted to be a parent but because they were under the social expectations they grew up with to have one.

The backlash of the song then able to be this child that is trying so very hard to be perfect to please a parent that will never be happy and where perfect is not good enough.

I agree there is definitely a consistent theme of a relationship where one person is changed to please someone that will never be happy anyways. Maybe it's a metaphor for all manner of relationships like that.

i think this might mean meeting somebody, and they say I love you, but you dont love them. so you're telling them to fuck off. and maybe liking them at first, then you got to know them, and you didnt like them so you could expose all their secrets they've scared. maybe

sounds to me like this song is talking about a guy she really liked....wanted to fuck, and people were saying she loved him....people were saying she had influenced him a bunch to turn him into something else "somebody says i made you"

but she gets rejected, despite all her hidden "talents", and she revels in rubbing her good qualities in his face so he's jealous and realizes what he's turned down. she says "maybe you're not good enough - good enough to make me blush."

but since the person she's molded into her perfect mate doesn't want her now that they've reached their perfection, she says whatever because she can just make another.

I love this song, I heard this band first years ago and fell in love with them.

This is one of my fav songs. The intro is cut from a 'Planet of the Apes' scene. I think the lyrics are two fold. Between two close friends, or between lovers. Normally one would think of a clone as being the same sex, so perhaps a younger sibling, or stalker. I don't think most people show all their cards in a relationship on average.

Honestly, this may sound sort of sick and twisted but I always thought it was a song about a failed relationship that led to an abortion. That being said, I remember feeling very uncomfortable listening to it for a while. Still a good song though.

They broke up, she has an idealized image of him inside her that she's still in love with and having a relationship with because she feels alone and is not yet over the relationship.

I think everyone has it wrong, it’s not about someone she wants to have sex with. It’s about her mother, or parents in general. Constantly stating “I love you” yet a negative tone towards that statement, along with the “I made you.” I think the I made you is meant to be taken literally. “Breed on your own” could be about how the mother would get knocked up and not keep with the father. I think the “Somebody says, I love you” could be them having trouble to properly refer to that person as anything other than a somebody, because their difficult relationship with that parent, yet the parent still says they love them.

On top of that, she mentions a clone a couple of times, being the broken part of herself that entertains the idea of their parent loving them? Possibly. What a confusing song, i love it!

tl;dr - the song is talking about the parent who abandons the child and she possibly resents that feeling of any connection towards them.

I think everyone has it wrong, it’s not about someone she wants to have sex with. It’s about her mother, or parents in general. Constantly stating “I love you” yet a negative tone towards that statement, along with the “I made you.” I think the I made you is meant to be taken literally. “Breed on your own” could be about how the mother would get knocked up and not keep with the father. I think the “Somebody says, I love you” could be them having trouble to properly refer to that person as anything other than a somebody, because their difficult relationship with that parent, yet the parent still says they love them.

On top of that, she mentions a clone a couple of times, being the broken part of herself that entertains the idea of their parent loving them? Possibly. What a confusing song, i love it!

tl;dr - the song is talking about the parent who abandons the child and she possibly resents that feeling of any connection towards them.