Sugarcane Lyrics

Lyric discussion by hopelessly_hopeful 

Cover art for Sugarcane lyrics by Missy Higgins

I can't really figure it out either. It will come to me later, but I was thinking something along the lines of this.

Maybe the little girl is abused and made fun of because of her screwing up in a recital? And so she's being told to be strong. And then the second verse talks about a stripper, and she's being empathetic, saying how the poor ballerina could be okay if she only had a "wall to hide" her. The always be afraid part, perhaps about how people can be so cruel?