I was hoping to come here to find the answers but I guess I can only give my interpretation.
This album is deceptively raw and tender, being written after Frazer and Guthrie's marriage breakup and the birth of her daughter.
With that in mind, this song sounds to me like she is dealing with a crying child and with all her love, and a new mothers frustrations, attempting to calm the child with understanding that the child is a small person who cannot communicate any other way but by crying. I make it sound so mundane but that's what the Cocteau twins do, turn the mundane into the sacred. No less here in this song.
I was hoping to come here to find the answers but I guess I can only give my interpretation. This album is deceptively raw and tender, being written after Frazer and Guthrie's marriage breakup and the birth of her daughter. With that in mind, this song sounds to me like she is dealing with a crying child and with all her love, and a new mothers frustrations, attempting to calm the child with understanding that the child is a small person who cannot communicate any other way but by crying. I make it sound so mundane but that's what the Cocteau twins do, turn the mundane into the sacred. No less here in this song.