To me, it's about a little boy born to a single mother who didn't want a child. She regularly leaves him on his own in a one-room bedsit flat while she's out. She thinks it's unfair that she got pregnant and can't pick him up and tell him that he's wanted because he isn't.
Lyrically, it's terribly sad and captures the loneliness of a child on his own, both when his mother's away and heartbreakingly when she's there. Brings memories of others alive for me, with more adult wisdom on it. Awful to think it happens every day to children right now.
To me, it's about a little boy born to a single mother who didn't want a child. She regularly leaves him on his own in a one-room bedsit flat while she's out. She thinks it's unfair that she got pregnant and can't pick him up and tell him that he's wanted because he isn't.
Lyrically, it's terribly sad and captures the loneliness of a child on his own, both when his mother's away and heartbreakingly when she's there. Brings memories of others alive for me, with more adult wisdom on it. Awful to think it happens every day to children right now.