Where has anyone read that Lacey was raped? The only thing I've ever read was that she had some rough fights with her mother, and her mother probably hit her ("hand coming down again) as young as 10. This song to me is an apology to a family member (probably mother) that she's sorry that she remembers the ugliness back then. Because now that she's healed she can understand that her mother was hurting too. I mean think about if your kid is acting out, doing drugs and drinking alcohol, staying out late, ditching school, not following rules, talking back to you---and you are the only parent--I'm sure you'd be a little crazy. Not that it's right to hit your child, but now that Lacey is healed and can look back, she can see that her mother was depressed herself and desperately frightened of what her daughter was doing and didn't know how to handle it properly. I think I read there were a lot of other siblings and they were poor on top of it. So now she looks back and can understand it. When she says "You stood where I stood" I think perhaps that could refer to the mother was abused herself as a kid. Plus "this story ends so good" Because she is healed and she does love her mother still despite what happened. "No matter what you're gonna build my shell" Means just that she's gonna harden from being abused. Then I feel the last chorus is devoted to Jesus and so when it goes "I only notice your face" Now she's only thinking of Jesus when times are difficult and she has to brace herself---cuz then it says "No matter what you're gonna break my shell" Now her wall/shell that was built by her past abuse is now broken by Jesus. Jesus has broken her shell. Also, the "I'm shedding my skin" to me could mean she's tried to cut herself, and then she's "told it's not time yet cuz she's only 10" So it's not time to die.
Where has anyone read that Lacey was raped? The only thing I've ever read was that she had some rough fights with her mother, and her mother probably hit her ("hand coming down again) as young as 10. This song to me is an apology to a family member (probably mother) that she's sorry that she remembers the ugliness back then. Because now that she's healed she can understand that her mother was hurting too. I mean think about if your kid is acting out, doing drugs and drinking alcohol, staying out late, ditching school, not following rules, talking back to you---and you are the only parent--I'm sure you'd be a little crazy. Not that it's right to hit your child, but now that Lacey is healed and can look back, she can see that her mother was depressed herself and desperately frightened of what her daughter was doing and didn't know how to handle it properly. I think I read there were a lot of other siblings and they were poor on top of it. So now she looks back and can understand it. When she says "You stood where I stood" I think perhaps that could refer to the mother was abused herself as a kid. Plus "this story ends so good" Because she is healed and she does love her mother still despite what happened. "No matter what you're gonna build my shell" Means just that she's gonna harden from being abused. Then I feel the last chorus is devoted to Jesus and so when it goes "I only notice your face" Now she's only thinking of Jesus when times are difficult and she has to brace herself---cuz then it says "No matter what you're gonna break my shell" Now her wall/shell that was built by her past abuse is now broken by Jesus. Jesus has broken her shell. Also, the "I'm shedding my skin" to me could mean she's tried to cut herself, and then she's "told it's not time yet cuz she's only 10" So it's not time to die.