Lyric discussion by VerySmolCheese 

Cover art for Crab lyrics by (Sandy) Alex G

I should warn before I go through with this song. It goes to some very dark places.

The song itself is about a traumatized boy in his early teens who has a romantic/sexual relationship with a much, much older woman. A woman who seems to have physically (and likely sexually) abused the boy when he was a young child.

The boy seems to justify the woman's actions in his head. This is very common in individuals who have been traumatized from childhood abuse.

The song itself is essentially the boy reaching out to this woman, explaining to her that he's forgiven her. He also says that he's lonely and sad, and that he thinks she might be too. The boy and the woman start spending a lot of time together, which quickly leads to a very illegal relationship. This sort of quantifies that the woman is still very manipulative. She uses the fact that the boy is confused and in a state of teenage angst to her advantage to have a sexual relationship with him.

[Edit: Didn't finish my comment]

Negative
Subjective
Disgust
Childhood Trauma
Abuse
Justification
Loneliness
Illegal Relationship
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