Far Away Lyrics

Lyric discussion by cocorosieluv14 

Cover art for Far Away lyrics by CocoRosie

I see this as asking if you would help someone no matter who they are or what they've done. "Would you go, if they came, open arms, far away."

My Interpretation

Hmmm not so, The theme of the song conveys child rape and the chorus "would you go if they came with with open arms far away" suggests the manipulation inputted into children by their rapists (if you look it up many cases of child rape/molestation show that once a child is kept by their rapist for a very long time they become manipulated into thinking they belong to their rapist and they cant escape them). The diction being used in the word "would" proposes the idea that it is an option for the child because the narrator understands the child...