I see this song as possibly being related to sexual abuse among other things. Flowers or being 'plucked' can be a reference to losing virginity/sexual activity. Daisies are often related to innocence and childhood, as well as death (pushing up the daisies). After sexual abuse, it is common to feel the perpetrator is 'just round the corner' and to feel you're hurt or 'cracked' in strange places. You also feel you know what people are saying. The daisies can also be seen as escaping difficult childhood (dancing on a dime, hearing mother cry, maybe she's around the corner). The maybe she's around the corner line could also relate to the girl in the song being 'around the corner', the best self as it were, the one who's settled - and the song character is working to get to her.
However, the song character's dead petals bring her to a new place, she's no longer a skeleton, no longer not a part of life or dead, but instead someone making the best of it.
I see this song as possibly being related to sexual abuse among other things. Flowers or being 'plucked' can be a reference to losing virginity/sexual activity. Daisies are often related to innocence and childhood, as well as death (pushing up the daisies). After sexual abuse, it is common to feel the perpetrator is 'just round the corner' and to feel you're hurt or 'cracked' in strange places. You also feel you know what people are saying. The daisies can also be seen as escaping difficult childhood (dancing on a dime, hearing mother cry, maybe she's around the corner). The maybe she's around the corner line could also relate to the girl in the song being 'around the corner', the best self as it were, the one who's settled - and the song character is working to get to her.
However, the song character's dead petals bring her to a new place, she's no longer a skeleton, no longer not a part of life or dead, but instead someone making the best of it.