There was a moment of what I considered at the time to be blissfull lucidity when the line: "All our songs will be lullabies in no time" took a clear meaning. It seems she wants to sing lullabies. But none of her songs are currently lullabies. Maybe the subject has no one to sing a lullaby for.
I was suddenly very sure that the song was written about infertility. I was also, however, quite baked at the time.
"What's a wolf without a pack?" could be interpreted as societal pressure, where the family unit is idealised as a perfect natural bond.
More generally "What's bad? We'll fix it." could then reflect medical intervention to promote fertility, which could be read as intimidating and forceful. She's a broken woman, she needs to be fixed. Or sympathising I suppose, reassuring the supposed woman that "she has all the time" - in other words she's not too old to conceive.
But ultimately "this part of you, too small to lose" is gone "so long". There however still people there to "make it all right", they, not the knives, have your back.
Although, with such a dour conclusion, having "all the time" to spend alone could suggest a long life of misery...
It's not so much as stepping outside the box, as getting lost in a foggy haze somewhere inside the box. What does anyone think? Am I reading my own sub-conscious envy as an inconceivable male into the song? What the fuck has conception to do with Winning? Oh dear...
Infertility.
There was a moment of what I considered at the time to be blissfull lucidity when the line: "All our songs will be lullabies in no time" took a clear meaning. It seems she wants to sing lullabies. But none of her songs are currently lullabies. Maybe the subject has no one to sing a lullaby for.
I was suddenly very sure that the song was written about infertility. I was also, however, quite baked at the time.
"What's a wolf without a pack?" could be interpreted as societal pressure, where the family unit is idealised as a perfect natural bond.
More generally "What's bad? We'll fix it." could then reflect medical intervention to promote fertility, which could be read as intimidating and forceful. She's a broken woman, she needs to be fixed. Or sympathising I suppose, reassuring the supposed woman that "she has all the time" - in other words she's not too old to conceive.
But ultimately "this part of you, too small to lose" is gone "so long". There however still people there to "make it all right", they, not the knives, have your back.
Although, with such a dour conclusion, having "all the time" to spend alone could suggest a long life of misery...
It's not so much as stepping outside the box, as getting lost in a foggy haze somewhere inside the box. What does anyone think? Am I reading my own sub-conscious envy as an inconceivable male into the song? What the fuck has conception to do with Winning? Oh dear...
@Troglodyke
@Troglodyke
That's incredibly insightful.
That's incredibly insightful.