As it often happens with poetry, these song plays on double meanings and abiguity: one one side PJ describes home abuses, the hit, the blood, the broken teeth are what they mean, the image that follows is the X-ray (a look inside the skeleton). It also happens a lot that the "Stockolm syndrome" is experienced by those who suffer home abuse, so the "oh god I miss you" verse is about that distance from the father, perpetrator of the abuse. The family is broken the father just want to fix the problem he caused, he rattles the keys because either he just used 'em as a wepon or he wants to take her to the hospital to fix his sins. The mother tries to escape (maybe the father locked the door, and that's why he rattles the keys as a display of power over the family). Nobody listens because everybody is so self centered. Nevertheless the abused kid misses his/her family, because he/she misses the love that it should imply not the actual family he/she lives in. Misses (in other words) the abstract idea of family love by missing his/her broken home. At the same time it might be (as suggested) the smashing of a piano and that she misses the instrument. I don't recommand this interpretation beacause some of the songs titles of that record where born in strange ways: this is the only song not based on piano but on guitar of the whola record, PJ stated that she wanted a piano centred album and wrote the recond on it, despite the fact she didn't actually know how to play it. As for "broken harp" the song title might come just from stuff happened during the recording sessions.
As it often happens with poetry, these song plays on double meanings and abiguity: one one side PJ describes home abuses, the hit, the blood, the broken teeth are what they mean, the image that follows is the X-ray (a look inside the skeleton). It also happens a lot that the "Stockolm syndrome" is experienced by those who suffer home abuse, so the "oh god I miss you" verse is about that distance from the father, perpetrator of the abuse. The family is broken the father just want to fix the problem he caused, he rattles the keys because either he just used 'em as a wepon or he wants to take her to the hospital to fix his sins. The mother tries to escape (maybe the father locked the door, and that's why he rattles the keys as a display of power over the family). Nobody listens because everybody is so self centered. Nevertheless the abused kid misses his/her family, because he/she misses the love that it should imply not the actual family he/she lives in. Misses (in other words) the abstract idea of family love by missing his/her broken home. At the same time it might be (as suggested) the smashing of a piano and that she misses the instrument. I don't recommand this interpretation beacause some of the songs titles of that record where born in strange ways: this is the only song not based on piano but on guitar of the whola record, PJ stated that she wanted a piano centred album and wrote the recond on it, despite the fact she didn't actually know how to play it. As for "broken harp" the song title might come just from stuff happened during the recording sessions.