This song makes me cry, I don't think it is mocking the 'mute witness' at all. It shows the striking injustices against people who can't speak out about things. People are saying the 'mute witness' is too young to talk but the line 'your taxi is here, my dear' completely disproves this theory, as you wouldn't send a young child in a taxi on her own. It's sad, because I have not lived very long and have practically no life experience but I've already known people who have been taken advantage of and not listened to. the line
'and you feel so much compassion in your soul' seems sarcastic to me, the people who are treating the 'mute witness' like that have no compassion and are a certain degree of evil. I always want to shout 'oh well she's only trying to tell you what it was that she saw' because the people that this song is about make me seethe with rage. The narrator of this song is the person who is actually trying to help the 'mute witness' 'now dry your tears, my dear'. I don't think the 'mute witness' is a toddler (though the message would still apply) but rather non-verbal, selectively mute, deaf, of has something else preventing them from communicating what has happened.
This song makes me cry, I don't think it is mocking the 'mute witness' at all. It shows the striking injustices against people who can't speak out about things. People are saying the 'mute witness' is too young to talk but the line 'your taxi is here, my dear' completely disproves this theory, as you wouldn't send a young child in a taxi on her own. It's sad, because I have not lived very long and have practically no life experience but I've already known people who have been taken advantage of and not listened to. the line 'and you feel so much compassion in your soul' seems sarcastic to me, the people who are treating the 'mute witness' like that have no compassion and are a certain degree of evil. I always want to shout 'oh well she's only trying to tell you what it was that she saw' because the people that this song is about make me seethe with rage. The narrator of this song is the person who is actually trying to help the 'mute witness' 'now dry your tears, my dear'. I don't think the 'mute witness' is a toddler (though the message would still apply) but rather non-verbal, selectively mute, deaf, of has something else preventing them from communicating what has happened.