I always thought this was about her father, but I link it to my father, and therefore to mental illness (my dad's pretty nuts and his mother was schizophrenic).
To me, she wants to "get the Jack part out" because that's the mentally ill part- she carries his crazy genes. Hence for me the "before they had these pills to take" part refers to mood stabilisers, SSRIs (Zoloft, Celexa, Effexor, Prozac etc), or maybe even anti-psychotics. Before these pills she couldn't control the crazy part of her which came from her father.
I admit there's not much in there that obviously points to mental illness, it's mostly my personal take on it, but some lines that I think hint at it are
"half underwater";
"half painful instrumental"; (both suggest something not right, unclear or unhappy)
"you'll notice something funny" (about her...i.e. she's mad);
"I guess it's high time you found out" (about the mental illness that runs in the family).
I always thought this was about her father, but I link it to my father, and therefore to mental illness (my dad's pretty nuts and his mother was schizophrenic).
To me, she wants to "get the Jack part out" because that's the mentally ill part- she carries his crazy genes. Hence for me the "before they had these pills to take" part refers to mood stabilisers, SSRIs (Zoloft, Celexa, Effexor, Prozac etc), or maybe even anti-psychotics. Before these pills she couldn't control the crazy part of her which came from her father.
I admit there's not much in there that obviously points to mental illness, it's mostly my personal take on it, but some lines that I think hint at it are "half underwater"; "half painful instrumental"; (both suggest something not right, unclear or unhappy) "you'll notice something funny" (about her...i.e. she's mad); "I guess it's high time you found out" (about the mental illness that runs in the family).
@wkap I love this interpretation.
@wkap I love this interpretation.
@wkap I love this interpretation.
@wkap I love this interpretation.