best song on the album!!!!!
for me, this song is definitely about cutting. i could go line by line analysis for this song. in fact....
it starts off with an attempt to escape from reality.
"biting keeps your words away..." this stanza shows that the protagonist of the song is using pain to escape reality, and he/she finds comfort in the pain.
the protoganist believes that the self-mutilation is actually helping her. she needs to cut to be able to function.
in the third stanza, she describes the experience of cutting as an euphoric experience. "when i jab a sharpened object in
choirs of angels seem to sing
hymns of hate in memorandum" (also the best line in the song. it becomes a religious routine.
she then begins to complain about the mundane of every day life. "bland accounts of two lovers meeting..." and so on. this re-enforcers her need to escape reality, by doing something outside the norm.
the pain becomes more important then anything to her life. "that even if i quit
there's not a chance in hell i'd stop". she admits that she can quit anytime, but she will keep on coming back to her pain. she has tried to stop, with bandages, vaseline and so on. however, by the end of the song, she realises it was all for nothing. this makes her fall into self-loathing and makes her want to hurt herself more. it becomes a cycle
the song starts off as the protagonist tries to explain to people why she does what she does. but by the end of the song it becomes a plea.
this song reminds my a lot of the smiths (adding to my love to it more) and is just downright brilliant. amandas power to mix poignant lyrics to poppy songs is amazing.
best song on the album!!!!! for me, this song is definitely about cutting. i could go line by line analysis for this song. in fact.... it starts off with an attempt to escape from reality. "biting keeps your words away..." this stanza shows that the protagonist of the song is using pain to escape reality, and he/she finds comfort in the pain. the protoganist believes that the self-mutilation is actually helping her. she needs to cut to be able to function. in the third stanza, she describes the experience of cutting as an euphoric experience. "when i jab a sharpened object in choirs of angels seem to sing hymns of hate in memorandum" (also the best line in the song. it becomes a religious routine. she then begins to complain about the mundane of every day life. "bland accounts of two lovers meeting..." and so on. this re-enforcers her need to escape reality, by doing something outside the norm. the pain becomes more important then anything to her life. "that even if i quit there's not a chance in hell i'd stop". she admits that she can quit anytime, but she will keep on coming back to her pain. she has tried to stop, with bandages, vaseline and so on. however, by the end of the song, she realises it was all for nothing. this makes her fall into self-loathing and makes her want to hurt herself more. it becomes a cycle the song starts off as the protagonist tries to explain to people why she does what she does. but by the end of the song it becomes a plea. this song reminds my a lot of the smiths (adding to my love to it more) and is just downright brilliant. amandas power to mix poignant lyrics to poppy songs is amazing.