I might be wrong, but to me at least it seems obvious that 'Eden' is supposed to be Los Angeles. She moved there to go to college and said that was really her first experience in the wider world, which kind of explains the bridge where she says basically that she used to think this city must be the best place on earth (and that she somehow got lucky and ended up there, and in the entertainment industry). But then she started to see the dirty underbelly - the people who just wanted to be famous for the sake of it, the people behind the scenes who just want to exploit you, who think that looking a certain way is more important than having integrity.
And then during the making of this record she moved to New York, so it makes sense that she can say she's now looking back from the outside in and realized that she had to leave because her life in LA had changed and she'd been "choking on the air" there. Also if she really is talking about LA "all those angels started acting the same" makes sense, because "Los Angeles" literally means "the Angels".
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So, you're probably right about the true meaning of this song, but I feel like sharing what the song means to me. For me this song kinda just represents my life, things were perfect, it was paradise, but then things changed, my parents divorced when I was nine and my world fell apart. I've had really bad depression every since then, but I always tried to appear just fine "what is broken can not show". This continued for almost six years, until a couple months ago when I attempted suicide. People wonder why, things changed, I couldn't deal with it,...
@jojoinpink54
So, you're probably right about the true meaning of this song, but I feel like sharing what the song means to me. For me this song kinda just represents my life, things were perfect, it was paradise, but then things changed, my parents divorced when I was nine and my world fell apart. I've had really bad depression every since then, but I always tried to appear just fine "what is broken can not show". This continued for almost six years, until a couple months ago when I attempted suicide. People wonder why, things changed, I couldn't deal with it, I had to get out. "When they ask, why'd she go? You can say because life in Eden changed."
So yeah, that's my more personal and depressing interpretation.
I might be wrong, but to me at least it seems obvious that 'Eden' is supposed to be Los Angeles. She moved there to go to college and said that was really her first experience in the wider world, which kind of explains the bridge where she says basically that she used to think this city must be the best place on earth (and that she somehow got lucky and ended up there, and in the entertainment industry). But then she started to see the dirty underbelly - the people who just wanted to be famous for the sake of it, the people behind the scenes who just want to exploit you, who think that looking a certain way is more important than having integrity.
And then during the making of this record she moved to New York, so it makes sense that she can say she's now looking back from the outside in and realized that she had to leave because her life in LA had changed and she'd been "choking on the air" there. Also if she really is talking about LA "all those angels started acting the same" makes sense, because "Los Angeles" literally means "the Angels".
@jojoinpink54 So, you're probably right about the true meaning of this song, but I feel like sharing what the song means to me. For me this song kinda just represents my life, things were perfect, it was paradise, but then things changed, my parents divorced when I was nine and my world fell apart. I've had really bad depression every since then, but I always tried to appear just fine "what is broken can not show". This continued for almost six years, until a couple months ago when I attempted suicide. People wonder why, things changed, I couldn't deal with it,...
@jojoinpink54 So, you're probably right about the true meaning of this song, but I feel like sharing what the song means to me. For me this song kinda just represents my life, things were perfect, it was paradise, but then things changed, my parents divorced when I was nine and my world fell apart. I've had really bad depression every since then, but I always tried to appear just fine "what is broken can not show". This continued for almost six years, until a couple months ago when I attempted suicide. People wonder why, things changed, I couldn't deal with it, I had to get out. "When they ask, why'd she go? You can say because life in Eden changed." So yeah, that's my more personal and depressing interpretation.