I definitely think this song is about rape. Not only about rape, but murder as well. I feel like it's about a girl who places her trust in a man who comes across as someone harmless (he's a dog but he's dressed up like a sheep). He has had other victims (bones all through the back yard) literally in his back yard, and figuratively as secrets or deceiving.
"And I walked into the doorway, He slid across the room. My heart, it started racing,I just didn't know what to do. And he laid me on the floor,And my screams they go unheard.The lady living next door,Well she's 6 feet under the dirt"--I think this entire section speaks for itself; about the rape.
This song reminds me so much of the book/movie "the lovely bones". Which is about a young girl who gets raped and murdered by a man who she thought was harmless. Once she has passed, she revisits her father whom desperately wishes he could have protected her, and reflects upon her murder/rape.
I definitely think this song is about rape. Not only about rape, but murder as well. I feel like it's about a girl who places her trust in a man who comes across as someone harmless (he's a dog but he's dressed up like a sheep). He has had other victims (bones all through the back yard) literally in his back yard, and figuratively as secrets or deceiving. "And I walked into the doorway, He slid across the room. My heart, it started racing,I just didn't know what to do. And he laid me on the floor,And my screams they go unheard.The lady living next door,Well she's 6 feet under the dirt"--I think this entire section speaks for itself; about the rape.
This song reminds me so much of the book/movie "the lovely bones". Which is about a young girl who gets raped and murdered by a man who she thought was harmless. Once she has passed, she revisits her father whom desperately wishes he could have protected her, and reflects upon her murder/rape.