"And she goes
And now she knows that she'll never be afraid
To watch the morning paper blow
Into a hole where no one can escape"
I listened to this on LSD, and I thought the hole symbolized History. And how every event that is written in the morning paper (or noticed, for that matter) is- unavoidably throughout its process- thought about, created and produced, and remembered; and therefore birthed into existence and history and memory, as a Happened Thing. Where it can't not have happened, where it can never un-exist on a timeline.
In this way the Anne Frank (or Anne Frank-inspired) character Jeff is singing about takes comfort in knowing that when she dies, she will not be afraid, because you can never erase that she lived, you can never take away the love she ever felt or the struggles she ever faced.
Being jotted down into history (in very minuscule ways) is pretty much unavoidable, and that in itself can be an intimidating or terrifying thought (depending on how deeply you think about it). But Anne is no longer afraid of that fate, because she finally understands it.
Keep in mind that more people know about something in history that happened if it was a gruesome, terrible thing, or something really profoundly sad. Such as the Holocaust, such as when you forever vividly remember a girl falling from a burning building. In order to enter that level of history within someone's mind and to be that pronounced amongst the other thoughts of the masses, something really tragic must have happened to you. I feel this is also relevant to the song.
"And she goes And now she knows that she'll never be afraid To watch the morning paper blow Into a hole where no one can escape"
I listened to this on LSD, and I thought the hole symbolized History. And how every event that is written in the morning paper (or noticed, for that matter) is- unavoidably throughout its process- thought about, created and produced, and remembered; and therefore birthed into existence and history and memory, as a Happened Thing. Where it can't not have happened, where it can never un-exist on a timeline.
In this way the Anne Frank (or Anne Frank-inspired) character Jeff is singing about takes comfort in knowing that when she dies, she will not be afraid, because you can never erase that she lived, you can never take away the love she ever felt or the struggles she ever faced.
Being jotted down into history (in very minuscule ways) is pretty much unavoidable, and that in itself can be an intimidating or terrifying thought (depending on how deeply you think about it). But Anne is no longer afraid of that fate, because she finally understands it.
Keep in mind that more people know about something in history that happened if it was a gruesome, terrible thing, or something really profoundly sad. Such as the Holocaust, such as when you forever vividly remember a girl falling from a burning building. In order to enter that level of history within someone's mind and to be that pronounced amongst the other thoughts of the masses, something really tragic must have happened to you. I feel this is also relevant to the song.
But like I said, LSD. Who knows.