This is one of the most haunting songs on the album lyrically and musically--even her unaffected vocals here sell the song's dejected stance--I think the main imagery "So I swung through here like a brace of jackrabbits With their necks all broke"is the key to this song. Fight or flight, except here they are one and the same, the jackrabbits knowing nothing but to flee, only worsening their fatal injuries--the singer of the song is both trapped and emancipated by their emotions and convictions "My faith makes me a dope"
Lots of lines with darker double-edged meanings "A length of rope" The tricky game of negotiating between friends and lovers, Undying love as an unmendable wound (never change in size), the very implements of healing (poultice) only signaling a death knell (vultures), salvation coming as a snake.
This is one of the most haunting songs on the album lyrically and musically--even her unaffected vocals here sell the song's dejected stance--I think the main imagery "So I swung through here like a brace of jackrabbits With their necks all broke"is the key to this song. Fight or flight, except here they are one and the same, the jackrabbits knowing nothing but to flee, only worsening their fatal injuries--the singer of the song is both trapped and emancipated by their emotions and convictions "My faith makes me a dope"
Lots of lines with darker double-edged meanings "A length of rope" The tricky game of negotiating between friends and lovers, Undying love as an unmendable wound (never change in size), the very implements of healing (poultice) only signaling a death knell (vultures), salvation coming as a snake.