Again - live through it, and suddenly it makes sense in a whole new way.
To me, this is about the fact that by locking away your ability to be emotionally attatched to somebody - ANYBODY - or more you care, but in a detatched, they-can't-hurt-me kind of way... you're untouchable, nobody can hurt you - how can they, when there's not enough grip for them to do anything to you... it's a sort of addictive sense of invincibility... And then, out of the blue, someone comes along and somehow gets through all your walls and your defences, and you're stripped down, defenceless, and no matter how much you love this person, no matter how much you care, you can't help but rail against it and almost hate them for doing this to you and leaving you so vulnerable - "Tell me what did you like about me? And don't say my strength and daring..."
This song completely blew me away when I first heard it, it was the first DiFranco song I'd ever heard.... it's just 4 minutes of raw, untempered emotion... WOW!!
Again - live through it, and suddenly it makes sense in a whole new way.
To me, this is about the fact that by locking away your ability to be emotionally attatched to somebody - ANYBODY - or more you care, but in a detatched, they-can't-hurt-me kind of way... you're untouchable, nobody can hurt you - how can they, when there's not enough grip for them to do anything to you... it's a sort of addictive sense of invincibility... And then, out of the blue, someone comes along and somehow gets through all your walls and your defences, and you're stripped down, defenceless, and no matter how much you love this person, no matter how much you care, you can't help but rail against it and almost hate them for doing this to you and leaving you so vulnerable - "Tell me what did you like about me? And don't say my strength and daring..."
This song completely blew me away when I first heard it, it was the first DiFranco song I'd ever heard.... it's just 4 minutes of raw, untempered emotion... WOW!!