Mrs. Jones Lyrics

Lyric discussion by wildhyena 

Cover art for Mrs. Jones lyrics by Hole

I think I might know "who" Mrs. Jones is. OK, let's look at everything she says when she's acknowledging Mrs. Jones:

"The sky's a narcotic with blackjack bones, Mrs. Jones aww Mrs. Jones aww Cry me a river but just take me home Oh, Mrs. Jones aww Mrs. Jones My virus is raging, It's breaking my bones oh Mrs. Jones please Mrs. Jones Your cute little doggy won't leave me alone, Mrs. Jones please Mrs. Jones"

"Mrs. Jones" is not the nurse, not the abortionist, not the fetus, not the spectator or narrator. I believe the abortion procedure was an operation without any anesthesia or pain-killer medication. "Jones-ing" often refers to an intense craving for drugs to alleviate the pain of withdrawal sickness, or in this case, to lessen the misery of a surgical operation without anesthetic relief and being able to feel every little detail and the gruesome torture that seems like an eternity in Hell, and the pain is causing the girl to kind of go out of her mind, and "Mrs. Jones" is all over her (the personification of the intense pain) making the situation even more hopeless and miserable.

So the female patient is very desperately begging, pleading, and praying for Mrs. Jones to leave her alone and have mercy and pity upon her. But Mrs. Jones is there to enjoy practicing the cruel sadistic torture upon the patient. And the patient can't even get her own mind and body to "shut down" and faint so that her trauma wouldn't be as unbearable and vivid in memory.

Mrs Jones is the pain experienced by the patient that has been personified into maybe an "imaginary enemy", or maybe even worse, a demonic entity, specifically assigned to make the patient's life as miserable as possible. She's even brought along a little puppy, which would usually make some patients feel better. But no, this little puppy was never intended to comfort, but instead to cause severe frustration, confusion and misery added.

My Interpretation
Negative
Subjective
Fear
Pain
Torture
Suffering
Desperation
Cruelty