hmmm... i think that i'm going to have to agree with all these posts in this sense; i believe that the song is about discovering taboos for what they really are. mary's family was most likely christian, and many things that they preach against (i.e., drugs, sex, philosophy, etc.) are not as bad as they make them out to be, and can actually provide a great experience for learning and understanding ourselves and the world better (when you understand psychology and the nature of people, you certainly can "read their minds" to an extent). when mary returns home to tell her family about what she's found, they see what she's done as sinning instead of growing as a person. with all the new experiences and knowledge that mary has become accustom to, there's no way that she could go back to her old ways of thinking without dishonoring herself.
hmmm... i think that i'm going to have to agree with all these posts in this sense; i believe that the song is about discovering taboos for what they really are. mary's family was most likely christian, and many things that they preach against (i.e., drugs, sex, philosophy, etc.) are not as bad as they make them out to be, and can actually provide a great experience for learning and understanding ourselves and the world better (when you understand psychology and the nature of people, you certainly can "read their minds" to an extent). when mary returns home to tell her family about what she's found, they see what she's done as sinning instead of growing as a person. with all the new experiences and knowledge that mary has become accustom to, there's no way that she could go back to her old ways of thinking without dishonoring herself.