I keep being facinated by her lyrics, they are all sooo emotional and so deep and have such power. Everyone here is right, this is about a relationship, it could be about any type of relationship, between two people and one of them is abusive, it could be about drugs-it most likely is- ,it could be about a friend thats involved in bad stuff and you get dragged down by it and end up trying bad stuff too. But I think this song is most likely talking about drugs because of the line that says " He's crushing my knuckles/ Splitting my skin, he says he'll let go If only I'd ask it of him " .Like banditqueen said, the "splitting my skin" part could be a reference to heroin or some other drug. But I also think it's refering to drugs because of the part that says "he says he'll let me go if only I'd ask it of him" and "Sometimes I'm tempted/ I would be lying if I said I didnt miss that giant man/ He was the line between pleasure and pain". It's basically saying that If only she had the strenght to say Enough then the "big giant man" (the drugs) would "let her go". And "He was the line between pleasure and pain" it's saying that the drugs gave her pleasure when she was in pain by making her forget about it and if she didnt take them she was gonna have to just face the pain. But it's obviuosly worst to take the drugs cuz thats much more destructive than the pain, even if the pain is really hard to bear, the drugs are just destroying her. And yeah, "Sometimes she's tempted" but thankfully she's become strong enough not to go back to that. "But me and my feet have some years to reclaim"
Amazing lyrics.
I keep being facinated by her lyrics, they are all sooo emotional and so deep and have such power. Everyone here is right, this is about a relationship, it could be about any type of relationship, between two people and one of them is abusive, it could be about drugs-it most likely is- ,it could be about a friend thats involved in bad stuff and you get dragged down by it and end up trying bad stuff too. But I think this song is most likely talking about drugs because of the line that says " He's crushing my knuckles/ Splitting my skin, he says he'll let go If only I'd ask it of him " .Like banditqueen said, the "splitting my skin" part could be a reference to heroin or some other drug. But I also think it's refering to drugs because of the part that says "he says he'll let me go if only I'd ask it of him" and "Sometimes I'm tempted/ I would be lying if I said I didnt miss that giant man/ He was the line between pleasure and pain". It's basically saying that If only she had the strenght to say Enough then the "big giant man" (the drugs) would "let her go". And "He was the line between pleasure and pain" it's saying that the drugs gave her pleasure when she was in pain by making her forget about it and if she didnt take them she was gonna have to just face the pain. But it's obviuosly worst to take the drugs cuz thats much more destructive than the pain, even if the pain is really hard to bear, the drugs are just destroying her. And yeah, "Sometimes she's tempted" but thankfully she's become strong enough not to go back to that. "But me and my feet have some years to reclaim" Amazing lyrics.