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Second Intermission Lyrics
second intermission, anticipation
you know the third act
small talk drops out of the play
you're standing in the lobby
tightening your tourniquet
waiting for it
waiting for it
and the bell sounds
and the lights flash
and there's all these questions milling around
and there's no time to ask
hooray for little miss leading
she's learning about bleeding
but what is love if not exquisite art
only saving grace or is it
somewhere in your iris
the reflection of my surprise is
stroll past i realize do not enter
and touch me in my epicenter
and the bell sounds
and the lights flash
and there's all these questions milling around
and there's no time to ask
i'm always trying to get there
i never really get there
to that quiet place where i accept myself
so that deep inside some high school
locker room, no clothing
popping zits of my self-loathing
under flourescent light
and the bell sounds
and the lights flash
and there's all these questions milling around
and there's no time to ask
second intermission, anticipation
you know the third act
small talk drops out of the play
you're standing in the lobby
tightening your tourniquet
waiting for it
waiting for it
you know the third act
small talk drops out of the play
tightening your tourniquet
waiting for it
waiting for it
and the lights flash
and there's all these questions milling around
and there's no time to ask
she's learning about bleeding
but what is love if not exquisite art
only saving grace or is it
somewhere in your iris
the reflection of my surprise is
stroll past i realize do not enter
and touch me in my epicenter
and the lights flash
and there's all these questions milling around
and there's no time to ask
i never really get there
to that quiet place where i accept myself
so that deep inside some high school
locker room, no clothing
popping zits of my self-loathing
under flourescent light
and the lights flash
and there's all these questions milling around
and there's no time to ask
you know the third act
small talk drops out of the play
tightening your tourniquet
waiting for it
waiting for it
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I'm not completely sure on the meaning of this song, althoughI can really identify with the lines
" I'm always trying to get there i never really get there to that quiet place where i accept myself"
i think theres a description about a phase in her life, her puberty and that in-between insecure feeling, comparing it to an intermission on a theater.
Or maybe shes comparing both to something that is affecting her now. Maybe someone being too close for comfort ("stroll past i realize do not enter and touch me at my epicenter") which is reminding her of her insecureties and feelings of being bare and vunerable when she was a teenager? Its about being alienated and out of place, in herself and with the surroundings i think. And the narrator holds a distance to it all, almost ironically discribing it all.