I was hoping other people had some suggestions, but it seems I'm the first. The song seems to evoke some imagery of abandoning a child into the foster system (Victim of the system, say it isn't so/ Squatted on the doorstep, swollen on the blow/ Leaving without you, can't say no; ...You've got my eyes, you've got my eyes/
You'll never be mine, ah, but you've got my eyes)
It could be about an unhealthy and/or on-again-off-again relationship, but it feels deeper than that. Maybe I'm wrong.
This sounds like what I was thinking too. The song seems to be about an unhappy father that finds his daughter again, when he's looking for a hooker.
To me it feels like the song tries to tell us to be more careful when starting families. We want to have children, then we get them, and then we give them away to the world, because we aren't ready for them. The parents divorce, and end up unhappy.
This sounds like what I was thinking too. The song seems to be about an unhappy father that finds his daughter again, when he's looking for a hooker.
To me it feels like the song tries to tell us to be more careful when starting families. We want to have children, then we get them, and then we give them away to the world, because we aren't ready for them. The parents divorce, and end up unhappy.
I was hoping other people had some suggestions, but it seems I'm the first. The song seems to evoke some imagery of abandoning a child into the foster system (Victim of the system, say it isn't so/ Squatted on the doorstep, swollen on the blow/ Leaving without you, can't say no; ...You've got my eyes, you've got my eyes/ You'll never be mine, ah, but you've got my eyes)
It could be about an unhealthy and/or on-again-off-again relationship, but it feels deeper than that. Maybe I'm wrong.
This sounds like what I was thinking too. The song seems to be about an unhappy father that finds his daughter again, when he's looking for a hooker. To me it feels like the song tries to tell us to be more careful when starting families. We want to have children, then we get them, and then we give them away to the world, because we aren't ready for them. The parents divorce, and end up unhappy.
This sounds like what I was thinking too. The song seems to be about an unhappy father that finds his daughter again, when he's looking for a hooker. To me it feels like the song tries to tell us to be more careful when starting families. We want to have children, then we get them, and then we give them away to the world, because we aren't ready for them. The parents divorce, and end up unhappy.