This song plays with my head -- though it's more the instrumentals than the music.
The lyrics are relatively (i.e. for Tori) straightforward here, evoking a state where a relationship has disintegrated into rage and denial.
The music, though -- the repeating string motif suggests building tension and frustration, while the piano theme (very heavily reminiscent of Matthew Shipp, actually, especially Shipp's "DNA" album -- in a good way) brings the tension over the boiling point and into the breaking glass. The return to the "gentler" themes implies an alternation between anger and quiet desperation; this isn't a story which happens once and then is done, it's a destructive cycle.
This song plays with my head -- though it's more the instrumentals than the music.
The lyrics are relatively (i.e. for Tori) straightforward here, evoking a state where a relationship has disintegrated into rage and denial.
The music, though -- the repeating string motif suggests building tension and frustration, while the piano theme (very heavily reminiscent of Matthew Shipp, actually, especially Shipp's "DNA" album -- in a good way) brings the tension over the boiling point and into the breaking glass. The return to the "gentler" themes implies an alternation between anger and quiet desperation; this isn't a story which happens once and then is done, it's a destructive cycle.