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May 14, 2016
It's a story about a woman desperately trying to have a loving relationship with a man who's incapable of that. She insists on a relationship with him, because she believes that she can transform him through love and sacrifice, and make him realise that he actually loves her. He warns her that he has nothing to give, but he still gets into a relationship with her for the comfort. It hints beautifully at the bizarre and dysfunctional ways they manage to connect and attach to each other, and the failure to go deeper. She gives him her all, but he still has nothing to give, and he even keeps hurting her. Still, she doesn't stop hoping that he will eventually heal, and only then he will realise that he loves her. This is the saddest part about it, because she can't accept the failure and give up, entrapping herself in this miserable situation. Unless she's a masochist, which is possible, because at no point does she raise any expectations and is always coming from a perspective of altruism, but that's equally sad too.
The moral of the story being: if somebody is in a deep dark place, showing them the light of love is not always enough to lure them out of there.
She sounds very much like somebody with a savior complex.
May 14, 2016
May 14, 2016
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small and he was big
She became so small, he could lift her, body and heart and all.
He held her up naked
She became so small, he could lift her, body and heart and all.
He held her up naked
The previous metaphor of sexual submission, grows into a metaphor that encompasses their whole relationship where she gives over to him body and soul, and makes himself completely vulnerable to him.
"he held her up naked" suggest she was in his, in his hands having given herself completely over to him.
"she was just his fig" can mean two things:
- the fig is a fruit that one merely consumes, it could mean that he was only able to use her
- fig leaf is what Adam and Eve covered themselves with to hide their shame after committing the original sin. In this case it would mean that their their relationship could only help him cover up his problems/shame, but not overcome them.
In either case it is a very sad outcome, because after she gave him all she had, it didn't make much of a difference to him.
"he held her up naked" suggest she was in his, in his hands having given herself completely over to him.
"she was just his fig" can mean two things:
- the fig is a fruit that one merely consumes, it could mean that he was only able to use her
- fig leaf is what Adam and Eve covered themselves with to hide their shame after committing the original sin. In this case it would mean that their their relationship could only help him cover up his problems/shame, but not overcome them.
In either case it is a very sad outcome, because after she gave him all she had, it didn't make much of a difference to him.
May 14, 2016
May 14, 2016
May 14, 2016
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you know? Maybe you are".
She peeled his skin away, so every day he'd cry
And in those tears he'd
She peeled his skin away, so every day he'd cry
And in those tears he'd
"peeled his skin away" means she got to know him layer by layer, exposing the core of his being. This was very painful for him.
"in those tears he'd lie to find some peace" means it didn't really help him, but he told her it did, probably because she knew that's what she was doing it for.
Him enduring what is essentially a torment from her, and even pretending that it got her closer to her goal of making him happy suggest, that at his point he's getting attached to her, and want's to keep her around.
"in those tears he'd lie to find some peace" means it didn't really help him, but he told her it did, probably because she knew that's what she was doing it for.
Him enduring what is essentially a torment from her, and even pretending that it got her closer to her goal of making him happy suggest, that at his point he's getting attached to her, and want's to keep her around.
May 14, 2016
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into my throat"
She said "don't worry babe, I'll
She said "don't worry babe, I'll
She assures him that he doesn't expect him to do the work of emotionally opening up, because she will do the work for him, through opening herself up to him.
"and laid down on his road" is a metaphor to that she didn't give him a choice. When you're driving a car and somebody lies down on the road, you can't continue without dealing with it first.
"and laid down on his road" is a metaphor to that she didn't give him a choice. When you're driving a car and somebody lies down on the road, you can't continue without dealing with it first.
May 14, 2016
May 14, 2016
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room
She said "I'll make you smile again" and made an airplane
Out of some pretty words put in
She said "I'll make you smile again" and made an airplane
Out of some pretty words put in
She was confident that she could and wanted to make him happy again. She didn't give him a choice.
The next line is a metaphor: when children don't want to eat something, parents pretend the spoon is an airoplane, to distract the child from eating something they don't want. It means that even though he didn't want the relationship and to change, she wasn't aggressively ramming it down his throat, but she used gentleness ("pretty words") to to get past his defence.
The next line is a metaphor: when children don't want to eat something, parents pretend the spoon is an airoplane, to distract the child from eating something they don't want. It means that even though he didn't want the relationship and to change, she wasn't aggressively ramming it down his throat, but she used gentleness ("pretty words") to to get past his defence.
May 14, 2016
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They met when he was in a hospital
He whispered "I ain't got no heart" into the
He whispered "I ain't got no heart" into the
Hospital symbolises sickness, but in this case it means his soul was sick, he was in a very dark place of his life. He declares that he's unable to love, not available for a meaningful relationship.