As said before, this song is really about Sara moving from her hometown and having to take risks and adjust.
However, personally, I perceive this song talking about fame. Fame always starts out good (Threw a lucky pair of dice, ended up in a paradise) but eventually gets dark.
Examples of this are "All those angels started acting the same," saying the 'goodies' of fame eventually all become superficial sellouts. "No way to make the pain play fair, it doesn't disappear just because you say it isn't there" Fame causes great pain and there's no privacy to allow you to deal with the personal struggles of fame.
Then the obvious "When they ask, 'Why'd she go?' You can say, ' 'Cause life in Eden changed.'" Stating how people bail out of what some people think must be the dream life because the lifestyle starts to get dangerous.
The second verse represents the change fame undergoes in the middle. The serpent represents the evils that start enticing stars. "Less than beautiful is worse than unholy," showing that famous people have to be perfect or they get torn down by the media. "Idolized my innocence, stole it from me in the end...still paying for the poison they sold me" Saying that famous people all start out innocent and nice, but fame steals their personality and they pay for it long after.
The bridge also supports this. "I was placing bets...this was even better than as good as it gets...Looking back,... I was choking on the air in Eden" Stating that fame seems so wonderful, but in retrospect it restricts you, your privacy and your personality.
I realize this isn't what the song is about, but that's what I imagined and I think it still fits well!
As said before, this song is really about Sara moving from her hometown and having to take risks and adjust.
However, personally, I perceive this song talking about fame. Fame always starts out good (Threw a lucky pair of dice, ended up in a paradise) but eventually gets dark.
Examples of this are "All those angels started acting the same," saying the 'goodies' of fame eventually all become superficial sellouts. "No way to make the pain play fair, it doesn't disappear just because you say it isn't there" Fame causes great pain and there's no privacy to allow you to deal with the personal struggles of fame.
Then the obvious "When they ask, 'Why'd she go?' You can say, ' 'Cause life in Eden changed.'" Stating how people bail out of what some people think must be the dream life because the lifestyle starts to get dangerous.
The second verse represents the change fame undergoes in the middle. The serpent represents the evils that start enticing stars. "Less than beautiful is worse than unholy," showing that famous people have to be perfect or they get torn down by the media. "Idolized my innocence, stole it from me in the end...still paying for the poison they sold me" Saying that famous people all start out innocent and nice, but fame steals their personality and they pay for it long after.
The bridge also supports this. "I was placing bets...this was even better than as good as it gets...Looking back,... I was choking on the air in Eden" Stating that fame seems so wonderful, but in retrospect it restricts you, your privacy and your personality.
I realize this isn't what the song is about, but that's what I imagined and I think it still fits well!