i agree that it's about a less than happy childhood, but i don't think the mother was so much neglectful as it was that she just had too high expectations.
'all your little molars cracked in the pressure' is like grinding your teeth, something people do when they are stressed. 'come here little sister, let's get you to bed' like he has to be the responsible one, or maybe he's trying to remove her from a situation where the mother is just berating them.
then 'but oh you caught me sleeping in the power sockets/you caught me mildew in the tiles of the bathroom/and oh you shot a glance like I was doing okay/oh I am never on my way' this whole verse is like he's saying that she only sees what he does wrong, and he's never moving forward in her eyes.
'do you ever run with him in the morning/think about jumping over the back fence' seems like (and i'm not sure who he is addressing, perhaps his sister with 'him' being a boyfriend or something) he's asking if they ever want to run away from it all, kind of like, 'do you ever feel like that because i do'
'seven different places need a bitter mending/all we use are eyes to fill in most the gaps' i'm not really sure about this one, but maybe he's referring to the seven days of the week? how his mother never let up and so he's saying she thinks they need a bitter ending, but now he's looking back and knows that things need to be sewn up so 'mendings'. that seems kind of chaotic, haha, but that's just what i'm thinking.
'the reasons my molars are so broken is i spend too much time ghosting with the likes of you and yours/the reasons my insides are swollen is i spend too much time ghosting with the likes of you and yours' sounds like he he's saying that he still feels like his mother made him feel because he lingers in the past, hence 'ghosting'. so he's still stressed and feels inadequate because he still allows his childhood to haunt him.
i agree that it's about a less than happy childhood, but i don't think the mother was so much neglectful as it was that she just had too high expectations.
'all your little molars cracked in the pressure' is like grinding your teeth, something people do when they are stressed. 'come here little sister, let's get you to bed' like he has to be the responsible one, or maybe he's trying to remove her from a situation where the mother is just berating them.
then 'but oh you caught me sleeping in the power sockets/you caught me mildew in the tiles of the bathroom/and oh you shot a glance like I was doing okay/oh I am never on my way' this whole verse is like he's saying that she only sees what he does wrong, and he's never moving forward in her eyes.
'do you ever run with him in the morning/think about jumping over the back fence' seems like (and i'm not sure who he is addressing, perhaps his sister with 'him' being a boyfriend or something) he's asking if they ever want to run away from it all, kind of like, 'do you ever feel like that because i do'
'seven different places need a bitter mending/all we use are eyes to fill in most the gaps' i'm not really sure about this one, but maybe he's referring to the seven days of the week? how his mother never let up and so he's saying she thinks they need a bitter ending, but now he's looking back and knows that things need to be sewn up so 'mendings'. that seems kind of chaotic, haha, but that's just what i'm thinking.
'the reasons my molars are so broken is i spend too much time ghosting with the likes of you and yours/the reasons my insides are swollen is i spend too much time ghosting with the likes of you and yours' sounds like he he's saying that he still feels like his mother made him feel because he lingers in the past, hence 'ghosting'. so he's still stressed and feels inadequate because he still allows his childhood to haunt him.