For me this song is about not wanting to conform to what's considered normal in society, through sexuality, political or religious beliefs or simply fashion sense, and wanting to know who sets these stupid rules of how we "should" be, but in the ending finding it soo difficult, and having so much opposition, you just decide to sit down, shut up, and conform, even though it's so not what you want "So with a fever of 43 she surrendered there,
Ready for the world to take her as their own,
But as she lay there the people stared as they
carried on, feeling terrified of her stripped to the
Bone… "
For me this song is about not wanting to conform to what's considered normal in society, through sexuality, political or religious beliefs or simply fashion sense, and wanting to know who sets these stupid rules of how we "should" be, but in the ending finding it soo difficult, and having so much opposition, you just decide to sit down, shut up, and conform, even though it's so not what you want "So with a fever of 43 she surrendered there, Ready for the world to take her as their own, But as she lay there the people stared as they carried on, feeling terrified of her stripped to the Bone… "