The thing about this album is that there are so many layers. Like an onion, but I actually like to eat this album.
I've always seen the voice of this song-Carolina-as his addictions (eating disorder, drugs). It's obviously an enticement, a seducing of the listener to "follow [her] down to it". When you first start using, starving, or binging and purging, you're convinced it won't be dangerous, it'll give you what you need, and that it'll stay a secret-and you do everything you can to keep it that way.
One image I found really stuck with me was one that related to bulimia. I felt like the singer was showing the listener how to make himself throw up. "One, two, three" could refer to, quite literally, shoving three fingers down one's throat.
And of course, the dirty little secret would be the disorders.
The thing about this album is that there are so many layers. Like an onion, but I actually like to eat this album. I've always seen the voice of this song-Carolina-as his addictions (eating disorder, drugs). It's obviously an enticement, a seducing of the listener to "follow [her] down to it". When you first start using, starving, or binging and purging, you're convinced it won't be dangerous, it'll give you what you need, and that it'll stay a secret-and you do everything you can to keep it that way. One image I found really stuck with me was one that related to bulimia. I felt like the singer was showing the listener how to make himself throw up. "One, two, three" could refer to, quite literally, shoving three fingers down one's throat. And of course, the dirty little secret would be the disorders.