I think Ash said it pretty well and gives a very plausible interpretation, although I'll suggest its not about loving someone but about breaking away from one's spiritual bounds.
In my interpretation, the stripping of the skin is a reference to breaking away from the various layers of her former self during the process of personal development. I think she's admitting that its "jaded, so wrong" that she has so few "precious moments" in her memory. I think she's also suggesting that by her "boiling thoughts" can 'evaporate' the impurities deposited in her life by childhood indoctrination. She may be essentially implying that she can enjoy her life without a sense of guilt by shedding her former spiritual-self and loving others.
"Back when they were teaching me to color" implies a rigid structure of indoctrination of proper behavior during childhood. The teachings of these supposedly wise men were meant to numb the mind and dull thoughts (couch cushin, remote control, changing channel references - television as the 'opium of the people').
I suspect that the remainder of the song is her speaking about her trying to love herself for who she is while struggling like an animal (using sex and drugs to numb her mind) in order to merge with her past spiritual self. However, in the end she recognizes that it is only by shedding her former values that she can actually 'feel'.
I think Ash said it pretty well and gives a very plausible interpretation, although I'll suggest its not about loving someone but about breaking away from one's spiritual bounds.
In my interpretation, the stripping of the skin is a reference to breaking away from the various layers of her former self during the process of personal development. I think she's admitting that its "jaded, so wrong" that she has so few "precious moments" in her memory. I think she's also suggesting that by her "boiling thoughts" can 'evaporate' the impurities deposited in her life by childhood indoctrination. She may be essentially implying that she can enjoy her life without a sense of guilt by shedding her former spiritual-self and loving others.
"Back when they were teaching me to color" implies a rigid structure of indoctrination of proper behavior during childhood. The teachings of these supposedly wise men were meant to numb the mind and dull thoughts (couch cushin, remote control, changing channel references - television as the 'opium of the people').
I suspect that the remainder of the song is her speaking about her trying to love herself for who she is while struggling like an animal (using sex and drugs to numb her mind) in order to merge with her past spiritual self. However, in the end she recognizes that it is only by shedding her former values that she can actually 'feel'.