Raphael Lyrics

Lyric discussion by BtC777 

Cover art for Raphael lyrics by CocoRosie

"Deep inside my heart and it\'s splintered at its core\nMolden curdle of milken puddle" I think this part explains the pain of a memory of having your heart completely broken. \n"Dreams of warm breasts settling in my mouth" I believe this part signifies either experimenting with another girl, or fantasizing about a girl, at a young age, not going all the way, but falling in love with them, and possibly trying things with them.\n"To be my spouse make a bale and a house" and in this young age relationship, they easily romanticize a life a with them in the future.\n"Apple tree, drunken brawl domesticly\nDirty dog dusty pawed bloody nose roses embroidered sheets" I believe this part signifies violence, possibly rape, but not from the person that they\'re in love with. I wonder if apple tree signifies the apple tree in the creation myth, the tree that holds the forbidden apples. And by eating it, you gain knowledge, and I believe it is the meaning that they believed sex to be one way, and then forced to learn of it in a different way that is more violent, a dirty dog, someone who is perverted, bloody nose, hence a violent struggle at this moment, rose embroidered sheets, I think of a red rose personally, like blood on the sheets, but it might possibly signify being deflowered and your spent on the sheets.\n"Dangle like women in the breeze on a line above the yard" this person had perhaps heard of these kinds of things happening to others, but never thought it would happen to them, so now they are like the others who have had it happen to them.\n"In my heart a flower dies slow like a campfire covered\nIn piss mellow like a snow fall\nMellow like snow fall" whether it happens only once or more times, it kills them inside, and perhaps it has to even be kept a secret, no one will believe them, they might be told they\'re making it up, no one acknowledges it. \n\n"Raphael you know just how\nTo take me in the swimming pool\nLike a child being baptized" I believe they are seeing this childhood lover(not the person who raped them or committed violence against them, but the person they at first fell in love with and tried things with originally by choice or fantasized about before) they have now personified this person as being their savior. \n"Beneath the starry sky we lie\nDrowning in your watery thighs" they find comfort in this person, and they are trying to forget the world when they are with them, and look to them to \'fix\' them. They may even tell them what has happened and the person believes them and comforts them. And they continue in physical relations with them, but it hurts, hence the use of drowning, because I see that word as not good, so they are either drowning out the world doing things with this person, or they are being coerced and used, and let it happen because they want to make this person happy so they will stay with them, even if it makes them uncomfortable to do these things.\n"Luscious eyed you a teenage player" but it doesn\'t last. The person from their childhood who they once dreamed of a life with and they find comfort in leaves them for someone else, or even cheats on them with someone else.\n"In my heard an island sinks slow\nTears fall in the kitchen sink O" and they are back to square one.m except it\'s even worse. Feeling like they are drowning in sorrow with no comfort. Now they deal with the pain of the aforementioned rape or violence, and no longer have this person they once sought comfort in.\n"Don\'t speak I can hear you\nDon\'t speak I can hear you" the person may apologize or say they can still be friends, or try to explain themselves for leaving, but it\'s so painful that they don\'t want to hear it with words because it crumbles everything they\'d ever wanted. \n\nI think that it would be about the relationship between children(more like teenagers probably actually) because you are still fresh to the world learning about everything, and this to me reminds me a lot of when you search for comfort in a friend or romantic interest and you\'re facing a bad homelife, and you can\'t escape. To me it sounds like they start out innocent enough, and slowly become more and more jaded.\n\nThis is my interpretation of the song. I might be completely off, but either way, it breaks my heart.