Sharpen my body like a pen
Come on I need to show it
Something too small for a lense
If I rub it if I wipe it
Guiding with one single hand
Nothing's wrong you like the feeling
I am all over the land
Come on I need to show it
Back on the mountain again
I was standing watching seasons
You're now my only friend
I'm too heavy, I'm the burden
Sitting and picking on myself
It's a shiny, shiny morning
And when the light finds my eye
I'll be fleeting like a scent
I hold my breath and then count to three
On and on outworn
Must be five hundred degrees
Will it show, in my show
Come on I need to show it
Something too small for a lense
If I rub it if I wipe it
Guiding with one single hand
Nothing's wrong you like the feeling
I am all over the land
Come on I need to show it
Back on the mountain again
I was standing watching seasons
You're now my only friend
I'm too heavy, I'm the burden
Sitting and picking on myself
It's a shiny, shiny morning
And when the light finds my eye
I'll be fleeting like a scent
I hold my breath and then count to three
On and on outworn
Must be five hundred degrees
Will it show, in my show
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...unless they realized that a title such as "Like a Pencil" would sound retarded, thus doing all this intentionally.
I thought they used pen because it's impossible to sharpen a pen, as to say like the impossible state they want to "sharpen their body" but i suppose i was wrong.
The masturbation idea, and the anorexia idea both make sense though...
"It's a shiny shiny morning
And when the light finds my eye
I'll be fleeting like a scent"
"Nothing's wrong you like the feeling"
Words like "Sharpen my body like a pen" make me think of euphemisms the industry has come up with for their ideal body like "toned." The choice of the word sharpen offers a jab at the industry and points towards the unhealthy, destructive way of life they really want from their performers.
"Guiding with one single hand...you like the feeling." Sexual? Yes. However, I think it has more to do with the perverse attraction to the "ideal" than anything else. I'd offer more of my own thoughts but there is a world outside of the internet that I must attend to.
Woman can't climax and it's driving her insane:
"Sharpen my body like a pen
Come on, I need to show it"
She's trying to focus herself into orgasming - so much that she feels she needs to prove to herself that she can.
"Something too small for a lense
If I rub it if I wipe it"
She's stimulasting her clitoris, but it's not doing anything - her magic spot has shrunk down so no one would be able to find it.
"Guiding with one single hand
Nothing's wrong you like the feeling"
She's doing everything she should, and she's trying to convince herself that she can orgasm, that she's enjoying her masturbation.
"I am all over the land
Come on I need to show it"
Again, she's trying to convince herself, but her mind's erratic, and what was her attempt at feeling pleasurable has given way to feeling frustrated.
"Back on the mountain again
I was standing watching seasons"
She's trying yet again - the mountain is the uphill struggle she's facing trying to climax. 'I was standing watching seasons' might literally mean it's been a long long time since she's attempted to orgasm, or that she's so unable to orgasm that she's started daydreaming.
"You're now my only friend
I'm too heavy, I'm the burden"
Masturbation itself is all she does now. She's so frustrated and pent up that she's isolating herself in her mind until she can come and be done with it.
"Sitting and picking on myself
It's a shiny, shiny morning"
She's tried so long that she hasn't slept - her attempts at masturbation are now just 'picking on [her]self' - she's noticed that it's morning. The 'shiny shiny morning' refers to the breaking dawn - the wee hours.
"And when the light finds my eye
I'll be fleeting like a scent"
Despite it being a new day, she is still attempting to have an orgasm, but still can't. When the day has pushed on too far, she'll have to give up and go about what she's doing.
"I hold my breath and I count to three
On and on outworn"
It's her final chance - a focussed attempt. She is literally worn out by not being able to climax despite her efforts.
"It must be five hundred degrees
Will it show, in my show"
She's been at it so long that she's worked up an immense heat (when you're horny it always seems hotter than it is). 'Will it show, in my show' refers to her trying to hide her frustration from those around her.
Another equally valid reading is that it's about her faking an orgasm during sex - all instances of her pleasuring herself in the first example are replaced with a sexual partner.
Could also be self stimulation during sex
It sounds like,
"Must be five-hundred degrees
Can't stay long, outworn."
Does anyone else hear that?
Sitting and picking on myself
It's a shiny, shiny morning
And when the light finds my eye
I'll be fleeting like a scent
though it can also be about masturbation :D "Guiding with one single hand/ Nothing's wrong you like the feeling/ I am all over the land"...