This song gives me chills whenever I listen to it. An AMAZING title track that I've ordered my best mate to play at my funeral, because, well, it's such a moving song. So because of that it always reminds me of death, but I think all of you are sort of right. I like the idea that this little girl is traumatized and so Ted's character is trying to protect her by hiding her from the world in a basement (basement being a metaphor of course) where she won't be exposed to all the garbage my generation has to live with--particularly the media and their ideals for women. Ted does, however, indicate that there's no way for the girl to achieve her full potential being hidden from the world her entire life, thus the Building Skyscrapers in the Basement... she won't develop properly if hidden away, so it's really a song about lose-lose situations as much as it is an assault on the media's portrayal of what we "have to be."
This song gives me chills whenever I listen to it. An AMAZING title track that I've ordered my best mate to play at my funeral, because, well, it's such a moving song. So because of that it always reminds me of death, but I think all of you are sort of right. I like the idea that this little girl is traumatized and so Ted's character is trying to protect her by hiding her from the world in a basement (basement being a metaphor of course) where she won't be exposed to all the garbage my generation has to live with--particularly the media and their ideals for women. Ted does, however, indicate that there's no way for the girl to achieve her full potential being hidden from the world her entire life, thus the Building Skyscrapers in the Basement... she won't develop properly if hidden away, so it's really a song about lose-lose situations as much as it is an assault on the media's portrayal of what we "have to be."