Wow, that's pretty gross. This song is very foreboding and scary to me. On the one hand, I see it being about anorexia. When she says, "young girls dreaming of beautiful deaths, popstar pictures above their beds", it reminds me of how media portrayals of women are so heavily influential on young girls' health. And you get the image of this woman as being as thin as can be, so much so that she's on the brink of death. Then the song ties this in with war and neglect of peoples' lives, which is largely what the album is about. It's interesting, like he's saying that we've, as a society, put so much stock into these attractive, perfect ideals of how to live that we've drained ourselves completely and left ourselves no room for our actual well being. Now we live in war and decay, an anorexic society.
Wow, that's pretty gross. This song is very foreboding and scary to me. On the one hand, I see it being about anorexia. When she says, "young girls dreaming of beautiful deaths, popstar pictures above their beds", it reminds me of how media portrayals of women are so heavily influential on young girls' health. And you get the image of this woman as being as thin as can be, so much so that she's on the brink of death. Then the song ties this in with war and neglect of peoples' lives, which is largely what the album is about. It's interesting, like he's saying that we've, as a society, put so much stock into these attractive, perfect ideals of how to live that we've drained ourselves completely and left ourselves no room for our actual well being. Now we live in war and decay, an anorexic society.