I think it's about someone who allows themself to be abused and taken advantage of just to please their sadistic lover.
The first stanza shows how he deliberately inflicts pain on her, but she still starves herself, ("93 pounds"), cuts herself and otherwise attempts to make herself more appealing and worthy of his love. Either that or he forces her to do these things and she complies in her desperate need to please him.
The "pear" line could mean she gets sick ("discolored") from eating food - a result of starving herself. Pears also symbolize the womb in some cultures, so that could have something to do with it.
He refers to her as "passive as a toilet", meaning she lets herself be shit all over, so to speak. It could also be pretty literal (evidenced by the next line), Xiu Xiu is no stranger to sexual deviancy.
The "crush a pastry/ashtray into your breast" lines baffle me though.
I think it's about someone who allows themself to be abused and taken advantage of just to please their sadistic lover.
The first stanza shows how he deliberately inflicts pain on her, but she still starves herself, ("93 pounds"), cuts herself and otherwise attempts to make herself more appealing and worthy of his love. Either that or he forces her to do these things and she complies in her desperate need to please him.
The "pear" line could mean she gets sick ("discolored") from eating food - a result of starving herself. Pears also symbolize the womb in some cultures, so that could have something to do with it.
He refers to her as "passive as a toilet", meaning she lets herself be shit all over, so to speak. It could also be pretty literal (evidenced by the next line), Xiu Xiu is no stranger to sexual deviancy.
The "crush a pastry/ashtray into your breast" lines baffle me though.