It's actually about a fictitious character. Juliana does not even have a sister. She has two brothers.
This song is very old, and these lyrics are dramatically different from a more current piece of her writing, so i don't relate to them much, but to answer you Sara616 - i think, she means she really wanted to get attention, and she was virtually invisible, so she went to desperate measures, and tried too hard, and it blue up in her face, so to speak...
It's actually about a fictitious character. Juliana does not even have a sister. She has two brothers.
This song is very old, and these lyrics are dramatically different from a more current piece of her writing, so i don't relate to them much, but to answer you Sara616 - i think, she means she really wanted to get attention, and she was virtually invisible, so she went to desperate measures, and tried too hard, and it blue up in her face, so to speak...