I've always found this song to be talking about the corruption in the world, and how baffled one can be at how others go through life blissfully unaware of it.
The lyrics at the end, "I got lizards and snakes running through my body, funny how they all have my face" remind me of Neil Gaiman's Sandman one-shot, Endless Nights (specifically, the chapter on Delirium). In that chapter, a woman feels as if she's been lied to by men, and that her babies aren't babies at all but lizards, snakes and fish running through her womb. Tori hinted at having read Sandman in 'Tear in Your Hand' ("Neil and me will be hanging out with the Dream King"), so this connection may be intentional.
Interestingly, both the song and the Sandman chapter feature corruption (Endless Nights deals with corruption both of the mind and world). It would be interesting to know if the two were paralells - however, I'm not sure when Endless Nights came out.
I've always found this song to be talking about the corruption in the world, and how baffled one can be at how others go through life blissfully unaware of it.
The lyrics at the end, "I got lizards and snakes running through my body, funny how they all have my face" remind me of Neil Gaiman's Sandman one-shot, Endless Nights (specifically, the chapter on Delirium). In that chapter, a woman feels as if she's been lied to by men, and that her babies aren't babies at all but lizards, snakes and fish running through her womb. Tori hinted at having read Sandman in 'Tear in Your Hand' ("Neil and me will be hanging out with the Dream King"), so this connection may be intentional.
Interestingly, both the song and the Sandman chapter feature corruption (Endless Nights deals with corruption both of the mind and world). It would be interesting to know if the two were paralells - however, I'm not sure when Endless Nights came out.