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Pretty clearly about Elizabeth's daughter with Robin Guthrie, Lucy Belle.

This song is so beautiful. ~so pure.

I think obviously it was written in the period right after the birth of her daughter, and probably with Robin Guthrie and her in mind, But like most of their songs, the meaning is pretty open ended.

To me, it is a song about something we've all felt, which is when somebody is so damn mad at you for what you've done, and you are trying desperately to make them see that it is okay to be mad, and that I still love you despite your expression of frustration. Not really an apology, just a validation of the fact that sometimes people get really angry. And that's okay. And in classic form, the chorus is a Cocteau Twin. Is it, "Reach and you won't lose me" or "Rage and you won't lose me"?

We've all been pissed and maybe stepped over the line (a bit... hopefully not too much), and to have someone tell you that that is okay is pretty amazing.

I was hoping to come here to find the answers but I guess I can only give my interpretation. This album is deceptively raw and tender, being written after Frazer and Guthrie's marriage breakup and the birth of her daughter. With that in mind, this song sounds to me like she is dealing with a crying child and with all her love, and a new mothers frustrations, attempting to calm the child with understanding that the child is a small person who cannot communicate any other way but by crying. I make it sound so mundane but that's what the Cocteau twins do, turn the mundane into the sacred. No less here in this song.