Seems to me that the first verse is about a woman who is totally alone in the world because she has no spine, and the second verse is the narrator describing herself, a brave, unstoppable individual.
The first verse -- "All my friends are embryonic/All my friends are microscopic..." seem to point that this woman's only friends are, oddly enough, bacteria and viruses, since those are the only things that are unavoidable, and herself -- "All my friends wake up alone." Her own fears of standing alone as an independent woman -- "girl germs" -- stop her from asserting her own identity. She instead chooses to submit to men -- "Sleep with me, wake up alive."
Seems to me that the first verse is about a woman who is totally alone in the world because she has no spine, and the second verse is the narrator describing herself, a brave, unstoppable individual.
The first verse -- "All my friends are embryonic/All my friends are microscopic..." seem to point that this woman's only friends are, oddly enough, bacteria and viruses, since those are the only things that are unavoidable, and herself -- "All my friends wake up alone." Her own fears of standing alone as an independent woman -- "girl germs" -- stop her from asserting her own identity. She instead chooses to submit to men -- "Sleep with me, wake up alive."