This is a cool and clever song. At its most basic level, it's about a girl dealing with her period (monster and blood as metaphors) -- which in turn serves as a second-level metaphor for growing up. In the twilight between childhood and adulthood, you feel like your real self is trapped inside your changing body. (Dressed up in your outsides). Your body is doing weird things, and you struggle with a sense of losing who you are in who you are becoming. It's scary. (Inside you're in nighttime, everywhere is frightening).
The connected hearts are those of the child and the adult. Growing up threatens to rip the connection apart. The protaganist wants to flee it (run and hide, she's coming around), but obviously can't escape it. She struggles with it (the venom fought hard to poison our hearts), becoming depressed (delusions of dying). Ultimately, though, she resolves it -- realizing that growing up isn't as bad a thing as she feared. It just a necessary part of our life's cycle. The monster that scared her so much is ultimately seen in a different, and positive, light. Blood, which is normally associated with death and injury, is seen as renewing life force instead of as destructive force (It's our blood that mends us). This obviously ties up the menstruation angle. The final stanza is hopeful and upbeat.
This is a cool and clever song. At its most basic level, it's about a girl dealing with her period (monster and blood as metaphors) -- which in turn serves as a second-level metaphor for growing up. In the twilight between childhood and adulthood, you feel like your real self is trapped inside your changing body. (Dressed up in your outsides). Your body is doing weird things, and you struggle with a sense of losing who you are in who you are becoming. It's scary. (Inside you're in nighttime, everywhere is frightening).
The connected hearts are those of the child and the adult. Growing up threatens to rip the connection apart. The protaganist wants to flee it (run and hide, she's coming around), but obviously can't escape it. She struggles with it (the venom fought hard to poison our hearts), becoming depressed (delusions of dying). Ultimately, though, she resolves it -- realizing that growing up isn't as bad a thing as she feared. It just a necessary part of our life's cycle. The monster that scared her so much is ultimately seen in a different, and positive, light. Blood, which is normally associated with death and injury, is seen as renewing life force instead of as destructive force (It's our blood that mends us). This obviously ties up the menstruation angle. The final stanza is hopeful and upbeat.
Really good song.