For starters, it's not written by Ornette Coleman. Songmeanings.com needs to fix this asap.
Bringing up the mental disorder comparison, I would think it's challenging the idea people have that those struggling with said diseases can just, "put themselves back together" and change back into the person they were "before". The narrator of the song in the first verse starts out asking her lover how they would feel to be "split in to fragments" and unable to "put the pieces back together" in order to make him understand that it's not that she doesn't want to change the way she is, but she can't. The chorus basically tells him no matter what he does she won't be cured. The second verse also shows that he's been ignoring signs that she's been sick and that this won't bring her back either.
Having dealt with depression while being in a relationship, this song describe perfectly what it's like to be in a relationship while dealing with one.
For starters, it's not written by Ornette Coleman. Songmeanings.com needs to fix this asap.
Bringing up the mental disorder comparison, I would think it's challenging the idea people have that those struggling with said diseases can just, "put themselves back together" and change back into the person they were "before". The narrator of the song in the first verse starts out asking her lover how they would feel to be "split in to fragments" and unable to "put the pieces back together" in order to make him understand that it's not that she doesn't want to change the way she is, but she can't. The chorus basically tells him no matter what he does she won't be cured. The second verse also shows that he's been ignoring signs that she's been sick and that this won't bring her back either.
Having dealt with depression while being in a relationship, this song describe perfectly what it's like to be in a relationship while dealing with one.