It's hard to say what music videos have to do with any song, but if there is a connection, the opening scene has the protagonist portrayed as an updated Opelia, from Shakespear's Hamlet. Her hair is splayed out across a bed of ivy like the hair of the famous drowned character through lillypads.
The character of Ophelia suffers the same kind of problems as described in the lyrics, but opinion varies about the cause. Since Ophelia doesn't actually make any approaches to Hamlet as a lover, one idea is that her love is directed at her father, which if you think about that while listening to these lyrics, it makes things even more complex. The suggestion of wolves being a threat goes back even further than Shakespear's era. Perhaps she is dealing with some problems with grandparents or family history, or perhaps an inherited disease?
There are also suggestions of gender and identity crisis, betrayal and sudden awareness and I think this is what the song overall creates: not so much a defined cause and effect, but a feeling of a confused miasma of psychological difficulties the girl is trying to break free from to become "her own woman". The song seems to end on a positive note, a bridge between awareness and loss. No one drowns in this version. I like it.
It's hard to say what music videos have to do with any song, but if there is a connection, the opening scene has the protagonist portrayed as an updated Opelia, from Shakespear's Hamlet. Her hair is splayed out across a bed of ivy like the hair of the famous drowned character through lillypads.
The character of Ophelia suffers the same kind of problems as described in the lyrics, but opinion varies about the cause. Since Ophelia doesn't actually make any approaches to Hamlet as a lover, one idea is that her love is directed at her father, which if you think about that while listening to these lyrics, it makes things even more complex. The suggestion of wolves being a threat goes back even further than Shakespear's era. Perhaps she is dealing with some problems with grandparents or family history, or perhaps an inherited disease?
There are also suggestions of gender and identity crisis, betrayal and sudden awareness and I think this is what the song overall creates: not so much a defined cause and effect, but a feeling of a confused miasma of psychological difficulties the girl is trying to break free from to become "her own woman". The song seems to end on a positive note, a bridge between awareness and loss. No one drowns in this version. I like it.