To me this song is about a boy breaking with an abusive mother. He says:
"there you were black silver dressed in gold
like every story ever told"
This is how wicked stepmothers/mothers appear in fairy tales. The rest of the song just spells out the confusing, hurtful, mystifying communication which the mother always used against him, and relates the difficulty of ending that specific relationship. The heart will always translate; always know that her words mean hate, even when she tries to spell out empty evasions and words of love; the blackness must be expelled from his life, even though its effects, some of them will keep going and going.
To me this song is about a boy breaking with an abusive mother. He says:
"there you were black silver dressed in gold like every story ever told"
This is how wicked stepmothers/mothers appear in fairy tales. The rest of the song just spells out the confusing, hurtful, mystifying communication which the mother always used against him, and relates the difficulty of ending that specific relationship. The heart will always translate; always know that her words mean hate, even when she tries to spell out empty evasions and words of love; the blackness must be expelled from his life, even though its effects, some of them will keep going and going.