What I thought this song meant was more personal. I am in foster care and this always makes me think of when the police took me away. {"They've come to take me away and won't leave until I'm gone"}
And some of it is feelings of when I was put into foster care. {"What we captured got away, slipped from us."} This would be my feelings about my childhood and how it was taken away from me.
Also {"Don't speak, don't say anything. They've been recording all we say for years now."} This would mean that when my mother was drinking I wouldn't say anything because I wouldn't have wanted to leave my home. I was in foster care when I was 3 and got out when I was 4. Then I went back when I was 11. This would be DSS (DCF) having my case on file.
Obviously, this is not what the song means, I just always think of foster care when I hear this song.
What I thought this song meant was more personal. I am in foster care and this always makes me think of when the police took me away. {"They've come to take me away and won't leave until I'm gone"}
And some of it is feelings of when I was put into foster care. {"What we captured got away, slipped from us."} This would be my feelings about my childhood and how it was taken away from me.
Also {"Don't speak, don't say anything. They've been recording all we say for years now."} This would mean that when my mother was drinking I wouldn't say anything because I wouldn't have wanted to leave my home. I was in foster care when I was 3 and got out when I was 4. Then I went back when I was 11. This would be DSS (DCF) having my case on file.
Obviously, this is not what the song means, I just always think of foster care when I hear this song.