I'm going to assume the woman in the song is the same person mentioned in all three stanzas as I try to interpret what I think this song means:
In the first one she is in a hospital,possibly after a suicide attempt - the "bandage wrapped around her hand" could indicate self harm.
The "loud machines so foreign to her" is a bit hard to figure out,maybe it's a metaphor for her mental problems(?) Same with "sent her splattered red against the wall" - maybe she cut her self badly and was bleeding everywhere and was struggling with doctors trying to restrain and sedate her(?)
The second stanza sounds like a flashback to her childhood playing the piano for her "drunken father". The third is obviously the woman about to hang herself,having left a suicide note,and this attempt is assumed to be successful("this is it,she'll show those bastards"),or she believes it will be successful.
"Everything she said was true" - could refer to something that happened to her that no one believed and was a source of her trauma.
I'm going to assume the woman in the song is the same person mentioned in all three stanzas as I try to interpret what I think this song means:
In the first one she is in a hospital,possibly after a suicide attempt - the "bandage wrapped around her hand" could indicate self harm. The "loud machines so foreign to her" is a bit hard to figure out,maybe it's a metaphor for her mental problems(?) Same with "sent her splattered red against the wall" - maybe she cut her self badly and was bleeding everywhere and was struggling with doctors trying to restrain and sedate her(?)
The second stanza sounds like a flashback to her childhood playing the piano for her "drunken father". The third is obviously the woman about to hang herself,having left a suicide note,and this attempt is assumed to be successful("this is it,she'll show those bastards"),or she believes it will be successful.
"Everything she said was true" - could refer to something that happened to her that no one believed and was a source of her trauma.