If the song isn’t referencing child abuse then what on earth does the “howl of the rope” mean then? If this is referencing a bomb shelter then there would not have likely been such a sound? Am I correct?
The song is clearly about Stipe and his sister being frightened for their lives at the hands of their abusive father.
“It’s nine o’clock don’t try to turn it off’ ….. likely referring to the TV that he and his sister were watching downstairs in the basement, which may have been the sound of their saving grace at the time. As long as their father could hear the sound of the TV downstairs he would likely have delayed going down to beat the crap out of the two of them with whatever God-Forsaken sadistic ROPE-DERIVED inhuman pain-inflicting device that the father may have been using at the time.
As a result of my own interpretation I often feel guilty for liking this song.
The song reminds me of one by Skillet, called ‘Open Wounds’. Check it out if you’ve never heard it.
If the song isn’t referencing child abuse then what on earth does the “howl of the rope” mean then? If this is referencing a bomb shelter then there would not have likely been such a sound? Am I correct?
The song is clearly about Stipe and his sister being frightened for their lives at the hands of their abusive father.
“It’s nine o’clock don’t try to turn it off’ ….. likely referring to the TV that he and his sister were watching downstairs in the basement, which may have been the sound of their saving grace at the time. As long as their father could hear the sound of the TV downstairs he would likely have delayed going down to beat the crap out of the two of them with whatever God-Forsaken sadistic ROPE-DERIVED inhuman pain-inflicting device that the father may have been using at the time.
As a result of my own interpretation I often feel guilty for liking this song.
The song reminds me of one by Skillet, called ‘Open Wounds’. Check it out if you’ve never heard it.
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