I have a few theories. My first one being the one I feel strongest about. My first theory focuses on a single mother who has struggled through life, bitter and beaten down. "Hes a real cannibal" she goes. That line sounds to me like she feels as of he has fed off of her soul, her happiness and since she have hims life and sustenance from her flesh as well. She feels as if all shes been through, all shes suffered from is because of him. She loves him unconditionally like a mother does by nature but also despises him and probably blames him for her miserable life and potentially the father not being around.
This line and I think I'll call him roderigo is a tip of the hat reference to One Hundred Years of Solitude. So in a sense she wishes she died bringing him into this world or he died as an infant. Yet, like I said she still loves him. It's a conflicted situation, almost like post partum mothers who snap and can even kill their child just to be remorseful after. Dress him up darker clothes, sell him away. Essentially a metaphor to the dark, depression he is raised in. Selling him away as in the value of his person being stripped, forcing him into some else almost like a slave.
She tied him down to her tree, stayed fit to name him what's hes gonna be. This one I feel refers to her forcing her eldest son who is the strongest to assume the mantle of man of the house. Forcing responsibility of fatherhood on him, pushing him down a certain path in life. The tree being a reference to their family tree as well as her being the mother as mothers are referred to as the person who holds a family up or together. Now doubling back to the standing under oath her gun, sit up straight or I'll hurt you.
Here I feel the song is referring to her trying to make him the perfect man. By being strict and trying to model him into what she wished his father would have been. Her strictness becoming abusive/borderline abusive. Now, tied him up with her rope. This indicates she has bound him to the life she wants. She has ensnared him into the role she needs him to fulfill. She does this out if a crazed desperation wishing to never be alone, however by doing so she stains her own neck, basically trying a noose around her own life. By forcing all this upon this child she is killing him but also herself, slowly destroying what sanity and motherly love she has.
However much like his father roderigo doesn't stay. His strength is what allowed him to not be held by her rope. Which may also be a nod to the father leaving due to the mother being mentally unstable or a nod to that being the reasons she isnt ok.
Now the rest of the song can be one of two things for me. Either she moves on to the next child trying to create a new Roderigo, in the sense of the lost father or the first son. She acknowledges that shes the real "animal". Which could be another nod to 100 Years of Solitude. The child being born with a tail yet here it's in reference to her initially thinking her first son drained life from her but now she fully understands the only one who stripped her of anything was herself. So now out of insanity and an unquenchable need to not be alone she continues on the same path.
That's my main theory any way. My other theories are much darker. I apologize for any grammar issues, run on sentences or redundancies.
I have a few theories. My first one being the one I feel strongest about. My first theory focuses on a single mother who has struggled through life, bitter and beaten down. "Hes a real cannibal" she goes. That line sounds to me like she feels as of he has fed off of her soul, her happiness and since she have hims life and sustenance from her flesh as well. She feels as if all shes been through, all shes suffered from is because of him. She loves him unconditionally like a mother does by nature but also despises him and probably blames him for her miserable life and potentially the father not being around.
This line and I think I'll call him roderigo is a tip of the hat reference to One Hundred Years of Solitude. So in a sense she wishes she died bringing him into this world or he died as an infant. Yet, like I said she still loves him. It's a conflicted situation, almost like post partum mothers who snap and can even kill their child just to be remorseful after. Dress him up darker clothes, sell him away. Essentially a metaphor to the dark, depression he is raised in. Selling him away as in the value of his person being stripped, forcing him into some else almost like a slave.
She tied him down to her tree, stayed fit to name him what's hes gonna be. This one I feel refers to her forcing her eldest son who is the strongest to assume the mantle of man of the house. Forcing responsibility of fatherhood on him, pushing him down a certain path in life. The tree being a reference to their family tree as well as her being the mother as mothers are referred to as the person who holds a family up or together. Now doubling back to the standing under oath her gun, sit up straight or I'll hurt you.
Here I feel the song is referring to her trying to make him the perfect man. By being strict and trying to model him into what she wished his father would have been. Her strictness becoming abusive/borderline abusive. Now, tied him up with her rope. This indicates she has bound him to the life she wants. She has ensnared him into the role she needs him to fulfill. She does this out if a crazed desperation wishing to never be alone, however by doing so she stains her own neck, basically trying a noose around her own life. By forcing all this upon this child she is killing him but also herself, slowly destroying what sanity and motherly love she has.
However much like his father roderigo doesn't stay. His strength is what allowed him to not be held by her rope. Which may also be a nod to the father leaving due to the mother being mentally unstable or a nod to that being the reasons she isnt ok.
Now the rest of the song can be one of two things for me. Either she moves on to the next child trying to create a new Roderigo, in the sense of the lost father or the first son. She acknowledges that shes the real "animal". Which could be another nod to 100 Years of Solitude. The child being born with a tail yet here it's in reference to her initially thinking her first son drained life from her but now she fully understands the only one who stripped her of anything was herself. So now out of insanity and an unquenchable need to not be alone she continues on the same path.
That's my main theory any way. My other theories are much darker. I apologize for any grammar issues, run on sentences or redundancies.