"I don't want to feel your breathing, your touching"
"I never want this to happen to me"
Those lines sound like maybe, yeah, it's about rape. Which is what everyone says.
But what does "This is my only escape from it all, watching a film or a face on the wall" have to do with rape? That line, out of context, sounds like it's about teenage fantasies. How does it fit into the rest of the lyrics?
"I don't want to feel your breathing, your touching" "I never want this to happen to me"
Those lines sound like maybe, yeah, it's about rape. Which is what everyone says.
But what does "This is my only escape from it all, watching a film or a face on the wall" have to do with rape? That line, out of context, sounds like it's about teenage fantasies. How does it fit into the rest of the lyrics?
Because the girl in the song has been so traumatised by her experience with real-life boys that she takes refuge in celluloid fantasy.
Because the girl in the song has been so traumatised by her experience with real-life boys that she takes refuge in celluloid fantasy.