First of all, there's the forbidden love angle. There's also the ex-lover clinging to a mutually abusive relationship angle.
On a more personal note, this could be, as many of the songs on the album and its successor. about womanhood. Men will never know the pain of a period or of childbirth, and even though she's constantly called weak for being a girl, and told she doesn't belong in metal, Maria clings to her femininity and its determined to prove that women are equal, if not better, than the very men who put them down.
My brain went a couple of places with this one.
First of all, there's the forbidden love angle. There's also the ex-lover clinging to a mutually abusive relationship angle.
On a more personal note, this could be, as many of the songs on the album and its successor. about womanhood. Men will never know the pain of a period or of childbirth, and even though she's constantly called weak for being a girl, and told she doesn't belong in metal, Maria clings to her femininity and its determined to prove that women are equal, if not better, than the very men who put them down.