The song is about a real person. Caroline Reid Robertson was the 22 year old jealous neighbour (& ex baby sitter) with some serious mental problems who decided she wanted to kill Rachel Barber, the neighbours 15 year old daughter, who she saw as perfect. Caroline Reid suffered depression, daddy issues, she was overweight with bad skin and was self loathing, self absorbed and had a horrible home life with a strained relationship with her mother who divored her father.
Rachel Barber was slim, pretty, had a boyfried & she danced. Caroline wrote many letters describing her life, her hate.
'Robertson wrote of Rachel: "Strikingly attractive, dancer's body, very clear pale skin, hypnotic green eyes, wild free spirit, passionate, charming, moody, mysterious."'
It seems that Caroline may have wanted to kill Rachel Barber because she was envious of the life that she thought she would never achieve herself - & so she wanted to kill her identity as Caroline & take the new identity of Rachel by killing Rachel (if that makes sense?).
In the song the lines 'The one day you see something you cannot bear
Telling you girl, yes you better beware' it could mean when Caroline saw Rachel she saw her beauty, talent and grace and she couldn't bear it. so Rachel 'better beware' of Carolines bitter jealousy.
'A prolific note maker, Robertson wrote down her plan to lure Rachel with an offer of money to take part in a bogus pyschology study, then drug her, disfigure her and dump her body. For two days Robertson kept Rachel's body in a cupboard in her Prahran flat before she hired a van and buried her in a shallow grave in bush on her father's property near Kilmore.'
There is a movie about it 'in her skin(I Am You)' & the song is played at the end credits.
The song is about a real person. Caroline Reid Robertson was the 22 year old jealous neighbour (& ex baby sitter) with some serious mental problems who decided she wanted to kill Rachel Barber, the neighbours 15 year old daughter, who she saw as perfect. Caroline Reid suffered depression, daddy issues, she was overweight with bad skin and was self loathing, self absorbed and had a horrible home life with a strained relationship with her mother who divored her father.
Rachel Barber was slim, pretty, had a boyfried & she danced. Caroline wrote many letters describing her life, her hate. 'Robertson wrote of Rachel: "Strikingly attractive, dancer's body, very clear pale skin, hypnotic green eyes, wild free spirit, passionate, charming, moody, mysterious."' It seems that Caroline may have wanted to kill Rachel Barber because she was envious of the life that she thought she would never achieve herself - & so she wanted to kill her identity as Caroline & take the new identity of Rachel by killing Rachel (if that makes sense?).
In the song the lines 'The one day you see something you cannot bear Telling you girl, yes you better beware' it could mean when Caroline saw Rachel she saw her beauty, talent and grace and she couldn't bear it. so Rachel 'better beware' of Carolines bitter jealousy.
'A prolific note maker, Robertson wrote down her plan to lure Rachel with an offer of money to take part in a bogus pyschology study, then drug her, disfigure her and dump her body. For two days Robertson kept Rachel's body in a cupboard in her Prahran flat before she hired a van and buried her in a shallow grave in bush on her father's property near Kilmore.'
There is a movie about it 'in her skin(I Am You)' & the song is played at the end credits.