I think this song is about a woman being abused in her marriage by a man who married her on impulse because of her looks, not because of love.
"I want to bury your face in the
Midwestern dirt to dull the shape
And cut that hand that changed my name
Polishing"
Here is the woman saying she wants to put him in the ground. "Cut the hand that changed my name" is about hurting him, the man who changed her last name when he married her.
"
And my next words could be my last
My clumsy mouth and the egg shells cracked
And oh no, oh no, oh no no, oh no, oh no no"
He has a short temper and she knows the slighest thing she says could set him off and he might hurt or seriously kill her
"I'm sinking in deeper, midwestern dirt
Sinking in deeper, midwestern dirt"
I think this is the woman admitting that she didn't kill him, but just daydreams about it. Sinking in deeper in Midwestern dirt is her accepting her fate as an abused trophy wife somewhere in the Midwest, like a plant taking root because it doesnt have the ability to go anywhere else
"Did you ever want to start?
Or just watch my love
I'm just some impulse buy
You couldn't take your eyes off of
Some clean white slate for you to fill in the blanks
Then show me off, you show me off"
She's asking him if he ever really loved her or was she just married for her looks without a second thought. He just needed someone new to start over with, perhaps this is not his first marriage.
"And you'll stay above me forever
Like you stay above me for now"
The most chilling line. She's saying "I know you'll kill me eventually and put me in the ground below you, just like right now you stand over me by controlling/abusing me"
I think this song is about a woman being abused in her marriage by a man who married her on impulse because of her looks, not because of love.
"I want to bury your face in the Midwestern dirt to dull the shape And cut that hand that changed my name Polishing"
Here is the woman saying she wants to put him in the ground. "Cut the hand that changed my name" is about hurting him, the man who changed her last name when he married her.
" And my next words could be my last My clumsy mouth and the egg shells cracked And oh no, oh no, oh no no, oh no, oh no no"
He has a short temper and she knows the slighest thing she says could set him off and he might hurt or seriously kill her
"I'm sinking in deeper, midwestern dirt Sinking in deeper, midwestern dirt"
I think this is the woman admitting that she didn't kill him, but just daydreams about it. Sinking in deeper in Midwestern dirt is her accepting her fate as an abused trophy wife somewhere in the Midwest, like a plant taking root because it doesnt have the ability to go anywhere else
"Did you ever want to start? Or just watch my love I'm just some impulse buy You couldn't take your eyes off of Some clean white slate for you to fill in the blanks Then show me off, you show me off"
She's asking him if he ever really loved her or was she just married for her looks without a second thought. He just needed someone new to start over with, perhaps this is not his first marriage.
"And you'll stay above me forever Like you stay above me for now"
The most chilling line. She's saying "I know you'll kill me eventually and put me in the ground below you, just like right now you stand over me by controlling/abusing me"