Miki wrote a memoir recently, and to add to dizietsma's comment, this song is her life story up to her adolescence. The book sets it all out in great detail, and it's worth reading if your're a big Lush fan. But it's also just masterful songwriting - would you be able to condense your own life to date into three short stanzas? Because that's what Miki does here - requiring great humility and dispassion to do so, leaving only the absolute bare essentials in, disregarding all the things that seem important to you, and resisting the urge to explain. At the end it's really compelling as a story for a listener, even though it's actually deeply personal and specific.
Miki wrote a memoir recently, and to add to dizietsma's comment, this song is her life story up to her adolescence. The book sets it all out in great detail, and it's worth reading if your're a big Lush fan. But it's also just masterful songwriting - would you be able to condense your own life to date into three short stanzas? Because that's what Miki does here - requiring great humility and dispassion to do so, leaving only the absolute bare essentials in, disregarding all the things that seem important to you, and resisting the urge to explain. At the end it's really compelling as a story for a listener, even though it's actually deeply personal and specific.