I think you both make good points so I just have a few things to add.
I agree this is autobiographical. When she sang it live in London recently it was practically confessional. The atmosphere was electric.
Note that she references this song in Artifical Nocturne: "I make all that I believe in dreams so real". Perhaps a reference to her creative process, perhaps also acknowledging her visionary outlook on life.
"Dreams so real we wake up in them" is a poem by her father, which concludes "an awed woe stirring us so". This is a beautiful continuation of that theme.
The line is "play it stripped down to my thing" not "played stripped down to my bone". She believes in the power of girls. And maybe we now know her preferred sleeping atire :-)
"The scream becomes a yawn" is a classic Emily double meaning. On the one hand she fears that nobody is listening to her, it's as if she's opening her mouth but nothing is coming out...on the other, it's the middle of the night, and with fatigue her screams eventually mutate to yawns.
I agree with a lot that you have to say. But I think you're off on a few points. It says to believe in the power of songs, to believe in the power of girls. It's not saying she's attracted to women. Rock is a male dominated profession. She wanted to show other girls that a girl can have power in such a biased industry. But she doesn't know if anyone got the message or she's just singing the message just to keep herself afloat.
I agree with a lot that you have to say. But I think you're off on a few points. It says to believe in the power of songs, to believe in the power of girls. It's not saying she's attracted to women. Rock is a male dominated profession. She wanted to show other girls that a girl can have power in such a biased industry. But she doesn't know if anyone got the message or she's just singing the message just to keep herself afloat.
And as far as the scream becomes a yawn. When you're young and trying to...
And as far as the scream becomes a yawn. When you're young and trying to stand up and be an individual and really make a difference you're full of angst and fire. That's the scream. But as you get older you start to lose heart as you don't feel like anything you're doing is having any impact. You start to fake it, to limp on. You're tired of fighting so hard. That line seems to be the heart of this song for me. It's the whole reason she's questioning herself. It's getting hard to keep fighting. She's running out of energy and she feels kinda lost.
I think you both make good points so I just have a few things to add.
I agree this is autobiographical. When she sang it live in London recently it was practically confessional. The atmosphere was electric.
Note that she references this song in Artifical Nocturne: "I make all that I believe in dreams so real". Perhaps a reference to her creative process, perhaps also acknowledging her visionary outlook on life.
"Dreams so real we wake up in them" is a poem by her father, which concludes "an awed woe stirring us so". This is a beautiful continuation of that theme.
The line is "play it stripped down to my thing" not "played stripped down to my bone". She believes in the power of girls. And maybe we now know her preferred sleeping atire :-)
"The scream becomes a yawn" is a classic Emily double meaning. On the one hand she fears that nobody is listening to her, it's as if she's opening her mouth but nothing is coming out...on the other, it's the middle of the night, and with fatigue her screams eventually mutate to yawns.
I agree with a lot that you have to say. But I think you're off on a few points. It says to believe in the power of songs, to believe in the power of girls. It's not saying she's attracted to women. Rock is a male dominated profession. She wanted to show other girls that a girl can have power in such a biased industry. But she doesn't know if anyone got the message or she's just singing the message just to keep herself afloat.
I agree with a lot that you have to say. But I think you're off on a few points. It says to believe in the power of songs, to believe in the power of girls. It's not saying she's attracted to women. Rock is a male dominated profession. She wanted to show other girls that a girl can have power in such a biased industry. But she doesn't know if anyone got the message or she's just singing the message just to keep herself afloat.
And as far as the scream becomes a yawn. When you're young and trying to...
And as far as the scream becomes a yawn. When you're young and trying to stand up and be an individual and really make a difference you're full of angst and fire. That's the scream. But as you get older you start to lose heart as you don't feel like anything you're doing is having any impact. You start to fake it, to limp on. You're tired of fighting so hard. That line seems to be the heart of this song for me. It's the whole reason she's questioning herself. It's getting hard to keep fighting. She's running out of energy and she feels kinda lost.
I like your age point - a cool way to interpret the scream/yawn line.
I like your age point - a cool way to interpret the scream/yawn line.
I didn't mean to imply that she was attracted to women, not sure where that inference comes from.
I didn't mean to imply that she was attracted to women, not sure where that inference comes from.