To me, this song is about a girl who leaves a small town to find herself. She blindly chases her dreams but the world just didn't pan out the way she thought it would. She ends up working at some dead end job that can't even pay the rent.
Her body is a defense mechanism that protects her real self. The real self that has been disappointed and let down by the real world. To get her through the day, her body has to be that "older sister" that protects her.
She writes a postcard to her best friend, a boy she's known forever, still living in her small hometown. He loves her and knows that she's hopefully hopeful. She's a dreamer and an idealist, but when he reads her postcard, he gets angry because the words are dreary and painful. He realizes that the world has let her down by reading between the lines.
The song leaves us at a phone booth. She's at the end of the road. After some shoplifting, she thinks about giving up and calling home and admitting defeat. Her protective body tells her to wave the white flag, but her true self still believes in the world. So she sits there, watching the colors of the street light blink, wondering where she went. She thinks about her best friend and what she left behind, and where it got her.
To me, this song is about a girl who leaves a small town to find herself. She blindly chases her dreams but the world just didn't pan out the way she thought it would. She ends up working at some dead end job that can't even pay the rent.
Her body is a defense mechanism that protects her real self. The real self that has been disappointed and let down by the real world. To get her through the day, her body has to be that "older sister" that protects her.
She writes a postcard to her best friend, a boy she's known forever, still living in her small hometown. He loves her and knows that she's hopefully hopeful. She's a dreamer and an idealist, but when he reads her postcard, he gets angry because the words are dreary and painful. He realizes that the world has let her down by reading between the lines.
The song leaves us at a phone booth. She's at the end of the road. After some shoplifting, she thinks about giving up and calling home and admitting defeat. Her protective body tells her to wave the white flag, but her true self still believes in the world. So she sits there, watching the colors of the street light blink, wondering where she went. She thinks about her best friend and what she left behind, and where it got her.