What I saw in my minds eye when I read the lyrics, was a child, who was a thinker, hence emotionless, or without much action, like a sculpture with a pulse, and the mother saw perfection in this and wanted to protect the child and keep the child safe and perfect, as time whent on though, without truly living, the child grew and began to fall apart. I suppose this could also be seen as a lover that would lock their love away from the world, we all need to accomplish something and have a will of our own and when all our means are met from an outside source this eats away at the core of our being.
What I saw in my minds eye when I read the lyrics, was a child, who was a thinker, hence emotionless, or without much action, like a sculpture with a pulse, and the mother saw perfection in this and wanted to protect the child and keep the child safe and perfect, as time whent on though, without truly living, the child grew and began to fall apart. I suppose this could also be seen as a lover that would lock their love away from the world, we all need to accomplish something and have a will of our own and when all our means are met from an outside source this eats away at the core of our being.