Here are my 2 cents about the song.
Tori suddenly receives a phone call with extremely bad news, or anyway news which can shake her world in a definite way, and this song talks about the moments in which she refuse such a reality ("I haven't moved since the call came / since the call came I haven't moved" - the repetition gives quite well the idea of staticity she has fallen into). To do this, she stops, and starts to glare at the wall on the other side ("I stare at the wall knowing on the other side / the storm that waits for me").
On this wall, there's a portrait of a woman with a parasol, which in this song becomes a metaphore too of the construction of a protection against the menacing external world ("if I'm the Seated Woman with the Parasol / I will be safe in my frame").
Still I don't know why "may be the only one you can't Betray" - perhaps the bad news where about some kind of "betrayal"? - neither what exactly is this "silk on wool embroidery" (the "whip slash" is clearly about the bad news).
@RedGlow I think the seated woman with a parasol bit means that the person she loved cheats sistematically on his (her?) partners, and that the only way not to be cheated on —betrayed— by him is not to be a real woman, because he will cheat on any woman he comes across with. So if you are that woman in a picture "maybe" you are the only woman in the world he will not betray. We must guess there is a picture of the seated woman in front of her.
@RedGlow I think the seated woman with a parasol bit means that the person she loved cheats sistematically on his (her?) partners, and that the only way not to be cheated on —betrayed— by him is not to be a real woman, because he will cheat on any woman he comes across with. So if you are that woman in a picture "maybe" you are the only woman in the world he will not betray. We must guess there is a picture of the seated woman in front of her.
Here are my 2 cents about the song.
Tori suddenly receives a phone call with extremely bad news, or anyway news which can shake her world in a definite way, and this song talks about the moments in which she refuse such a reality ("I haven't moved since the call came / since the call came I haven't moved" - the repetition gives quite well the idea of staticity she has fallen into). To do this, she stops, and starts to glare at the wall on the other side ("I stare at the wall knowing on the other side / the storm that waits for me").
On this wall, there's a portrait of a woman with a parasol, which in this song becomes a metaphore too of the construction of a protection against the menacing external world ("if I'm the Seated Woman with the Parasol / I will be safe in my frame").
Still I don't know why "may be the only one you can't Betray" - perhaps the bad news where about some kind of "betrayal"? - neither what exactly is this "silk on wool embroidery" (the "whip slash" is clearly about the bad news).
@RedGlow I think the seated woman with a parasol bit means that the person she loved cheats sistematically on his (her?) partners, and that the only way not to be cheated on —betrayed— by him is not to be a real woman, because he will cheat on any woman he comes across with. So if you are that woman in a picture "maybe" you are the only woman in the world he will not betray. We must guess there is a picture of the seated woman in front of her.
@RedGlow I think the seated woman with a parasol bit means that the person she loved cheats sistematically on his (her?) partners, and that the only way not to be cheated on —betrayed— by him is not to be a real woman, because he will cheat on any woman he comes across with. So if you are that woman in a picture "maybe" you are the only woman in the world he will not betray. We must guess there is a picture of the seated woman in front of her.