Even though it would make for a more scandalous story, I don't think this song has anything to do with molestation. If that were the case, there would be a lot more lines suggesting that.
The song is incredibly biographic: their father and mother divorced when they were young, and the sisters were raised apart; Bianca, the younger of the two, lived with their dad (a native american shaman,) until she was around fifteen, but eventually dropped out of school and lived as a drifter - as her father did.
This song seems to be about Bianca's realization that she doesn't want to live like her father, but she also must learn from the way he is, in order to grow and to keep herself grounded.
The parallels between this song and "Promise," from the same album, are uncanny and bare mentioning. It should be noted that in Promise, the narrator is giving a "tarnished offering," which she describes as "crystal light" between her thighs, and pleads that her werewolf not run away from her.
It's important to see this parallel, because then the sound clip from the beginning is given a little context - He is the lover that she is leaving. She has done a lot of thinking (about her life and her father, in particular,) and decided to keep herself "sacred*," so to speak.
*(note that the lyrics in the middle of the songs should say:
"In a dream
my FATHER came to me
and made me swear that I'd keep
what's sacred to me
and if I had the choice
to LIVE in his name
I'd pray my way through the rain
singing oh happy day")
I was thinking about that! I felt it sounded an awful lot like 'love,' or maybe 'lover' but it can be a slurred 'father.' Plus 'father' seems to be a main theme to the song.
I was thinking about that! I felt it sounded an awful lot like 'love,' or maybe 'lover' but it can be a slurred 'father.' Plus 'father' seems to be a main theme to the song.
Even though it would make for a more scandalous story, I don't think this song has anything to do with molestation. If that were the case, there would be a lot more lines suggesting that.
The song is incredibly biographic: their father and mother divorced when they were young, and the sisters were raised apart; Bianca, the younger of the two, lived with their dad (a native american shaman,) until she was around fifteen, but eventually dropped out of school and lived as a drifter - as her father did.
This song seems to be about Bianca's realization that she doesn't want to live like her father, but she also must learn from the way he is, in order to grow and to keep herself grounded.
The parallels between this song and "Promise," from the same album, are uncanny and bare mentioning. It should be noted that in Promise, the narrator is giving a "tarnished offering," which she describes as "crystal light" between her thighs, and pleads that her werewolf not run away from her.
It's important to see this parallel, because then the sound clip from the beginning is given a little context - He is the lover that she is leaving. She has done a lot of thinking (about her life and her father, in particular,) and decided to keep herself "sacred*," so to speak.
*(note that the lyrics in the middle of the songs should say: "In a dream my FATHER came to me and made me swear that I'd keep what's sacred to me and if I had the choice to LIVE in his name I'd pray my way through the rain singing oh happy day")
I was thinking about that! I felt it sounded an awful lot like 'love,' or maybe 'lover' but it can be a slurred 'father.' Plus 'father' seems to be a main theme to the song.
I was thinking about that! I felt it sounded an awful lot like 'love,' or maybe 'lover' but it can be a slurred 'father.' Plus 'father' seems to be a main theme to the song.