I've always felt this song to be a companion to Lust. I think she's talking about a person who is a little controlling and unpredictable in their moods.
It's here I think that we start the many future references to a glass world, and all those references to her changing/being changed.
It's like since TVAB her world is fragile to her. "Here in a glass world". Also transparent. And I personally think Concertina could be alluding to a person's wild mood swings,and how that person can embody both ends of the mood spectrum in seconds, a concertina is an instrument that expands and contracts from large to small, opposites, like fierce and calm.
That persons thoughts are more important than hers/she thinks about their thoughts before her own (as she runs into "your thought from across the room") that that persons thoughts are always there first in her mind/already there before she's even had her own thoughts.
Chinese paper cuts is interesting. Going back to the fragile world.. Chinese paper cuts are thought to promote positive energy in the home if you decorate your home with them. So interesting that "Just another fix" follows this line... all the little fixes you try to make your world better in any way.
How I think this is in comparison to Lust again is how it feels the same person talking in both songs, a person who is searching to make sense of their new world and isn't sure how to live through a world they are not in control of anymore.
I've always felt this song to be a companion to Lust. I think she's talking about a person who is a little controlling and unpredictable in their moods. It's here I think that we start the many future references to a glass world, and all those references to her changing/being changed. It's like since TVAB her world is fragile to her. "Here in a glass world". Also transparent. And I personally think Concertina could be alluding to a person's wild mood swings,and how that person can embody both ends of the mood spectrum in seconds, a concertina is an instrument that expands and contracts from large to small, opposites, like fierce and calm.
That persons thoughts are more important than hers/she thinks about their thoughts before her own (as she runs into "your thought from across the room") that that persons thoughts are always there first in her mind/already there before she's even had her own thoughts.
Chinese paper cuts is interesting. Going back to the fragile world.. Chinese paper cuts are thought to promote positive energy in the home if you decorate your home with them. So interesting that "Just another fix" follows this line... all the little fixes you try to make your world better in any way.
How I think this is in comparison to Lust again is how it feels the same person talking in both songs, a person who is searching to make sense of their new world and isn't sure how to live through a world they are not in control of anymore.