Personally, when I hear this song I picture an average housewife (as with everyone else) going for a run down her block or whatever and she's just reviewing her life.
"I've got soul in my bones,
got a home, a dog, and a man
to call my own"
and then she goes on to talk about her period and everything that comes with it. The period could represent regularity/security because it comes "every month" and it's never not there.
As she's running, she thinks of what she has with her:
"I've got mace, pepper-spray
and some shoes that runs faster than a rapist rapes."
The shoes that runs faster than a rapist rapes line is what leads me to believe that she's running or jogging. The run or jog in itself could represent this woman running from her own problems or her own fears of her rape or being raped again.
Again, I go back to the idea that she's reviewing her life because she begins to talk about what she needs.
Verse 1: What I Have,
Verse 2: What I Think I Need to feel safe.
End of Verse 2: What I Know I Need to feel safe;
chemical castrations the hope to keep moving on and Godspeed to get away if it should ever happen again.
Personally, when I hear this song I picture an average housewife (as with everyone else) going for a run down her block or whatever and she's just reviewing her life. "I've got soul in my bones, got a home, a dog, and a man to call my own"
and then she goes on to talk about her period and everything that comes with it. The period could represent regularity/security because it comes "every month" and it's never not there.
As she's running, she thinks of what she has with her: "I've got mace, pepper-spray and some shoes that runs faster than a rapist rapes."
The shoes that runs faster than a rapist rapes line is what leads me to believe that she's running or jogging. The run or jog in itself could represent this woman running from her own problems or her own fears of her rape or being raped again. Again, I go back to the idea that she's reviewing her life because she begins to talk about what she needs.
Verse 1: What I Have, Verse 2: What I Think I Need to feel safe. End of Verse 2: What I Know I Need to feel safe; chemical castrations the hope to keep moving on and Godspeed to get away if it should ever happen again.
That's just what I picture.