| Bright Eyes – A Line Allows Progress, a Circle Does Not Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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A song about an addict, examining what got them there and what they’re like now that they are. It could possibly be about Conor, or maybe a friend. The topic is a bit overused, but there are some lovely ideas. “Sitting around, no work today. / Try pacing to keep awake. / Laying around, no school today, / just drink until the clock has circled all the way.” I believe this verse is a reference to how boredom influenced the drinking (and apparently, later in the song, drug) problem. Without having to work or go to school, the addict thinks they can only have fun by drinking. The clock getting circled all the way plays into the circle not allowing progress. By watching the clock circle, watching time wrap back up around your wrist like handcuffs, there is no progress. Nothing done. “It is late afternoon / as you walk through the rooms / of a house that is quiet / except for unanswered telephones.” This verse examines again the emptiness that leads to drinking, and yet how the drinker almost longs for that emptiness by ignoring their friends. They almost want to have nothing to do, to have an excuse to drink (or use). “But you would settle for anything / that would make your brain slow down or stop. / Break this circle of thoughts you chase / before they catch back up with you.” The brain is like a clock, simply ticking away in a circle until it gets back to where it once was. “You're going to crawl from this bed you have made / and stop counting on that camera / that hangs round your neck / because it won't ever remember / what you choose to forget.” The alcoholic decides to stop (as they always do: circle). The camera line is a bit beautiful. This person is most likely an artist, attempting to find console in visual stimuli but ends up using the camera as a fantastic source of memory because they so long try to forget things in their life. The camera makes, through pictures, things become beautiful instead of the sad truth. “As you try to find some source of light, / try to name one thing you like. / You used to have such a longer list, / and light, you never had to look for it.” Yes, I think this is a vague reference to Catcher in the Rye. Making a list of things you like. The user in this song finds that there is so much less on it, how bad things have gotten. “ / until all you want is to finish this half empty glass / before the ice melts away. / This feeling always used to pass / but seems like it's every day / seems like it's every night now.” The glass is an obvious reference to life, to thoughts of suicide most likely. Things have only gotten worse. That’s what this song is saying. That’s what the album is saying as that line titles the CD. Things get worse. You make bad enough choices and you will feel them every day and every night. So kids, don’t get addicted. To anything. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Carlyle Lake Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I believe this song is sarcastic, huffing about manmade alterations to nature. Even though a manmade lake is not so destructive (is it?) it is man altering nature and the only thoughts are how to protect humans, instead of what is natural. It’s satirical also in the sense that the thought is to NOT think about tomorrow, but to take in the high tide you must wait a while, maybe even all day. It’s commentary on the lack of vision into the distant future, but the obsession with the nearer one. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I believe this song is following the mediocre life of a closeted gay man. He is married, quite unhappily, and works a simple job. He sleeps with men from time to time but has a hard time admitting that he is gay. “I don't care to say what / I failed to recognize. / Every single day from the poker to the prize.” The narration is from the future, and he’s looking back on the situation. Bobby was, always has been, gay but his whole life he denied it. “Running out of Springfield / I worked for the Capitol Air, in the bags. / Found a woman there who said / she had a mind to make / me a messenger man.” I sort of see this as a woman that decides she can turn him straight. A “messenger man” would mean if she could do so, then he would be the poster boy for gay men turned straight. I imagine he developed a close friendship and when he indulged this secret (which he’s not so sure about himself) she insisted she would fix him. She is probably young and very attractive, which is why she thinks she can turn him straight while his wife hasn’t been able to. “If my father took his life / for the national plan, I don't care. / I'm not about to stick my grave with an / apron and a bucket of plans, never ever.” I believe “national plan” references somehow a political thing against gay people or gay marriage. His father was somehow devoted against this, and Bobby is saying that he doesn’t care. When he’s talking about the apron and bucket at his grave, I believe he’s talking about stereotypes and how that’s not what he is indulging in. “I can take the pillow cases / off the yellow pillows, / make a property line from the bed. / In the living room, the living room / the morning papers made the most / out of nothing at all.” By taking the pillow cases off, he is intending to expose what the pillow really is: he can come out. He’ll come out and him and his wife will be completely separate. I sort of think the morning papers image are him and his wife ignoring each other in the mornings, reading instead of talking. There is nothing there at all, and the papers are the flimsy wall between them. “So we took the room / with a view of the runaway. / I took off my clothes / and she took it for a holiday. / I was taken for all the things / that I never had before.” Perhaps because his wife and him have been doing so horribly, he tries to make it better and takes up the woman’s offer to “make him straight”. They get a motel near the airport, they can see the runway from the window (he feels like he is about to take off; this is what determines everything, whether he truly is gay or straight). He was “taken” by the woman and realizes he really is gay, something he never had before. “Running out of Springfield / she left me with a note saying: / "Bobby, don't look back."“ The woman accepts his sexual orientation and leaves him alone, telling him to only look to the future and accept himself. “And if my wife took a bicycle ride / with a knife in her hand, / I saw it coming.” His wife, with the realization that they are splitting up, becomes suicidal. “All the shadflies run at once / with a trumpet or a train. / Oh, I'm running from it.” All the other men ignored the fact that they may not be accepted and went for their dreams, while Bobby ran from it. “Wait a minute, wait a minute, / give a minute, lady / I can explain the aftershave.” Here he is reminiscing about when he once had to make excuses for being a homosexual, but now he has no one to apologize to. He has no one. “Bobby got a shadfly / caught in his hair.” His life was cut short. Everything that was his life is no more and he is left with nothing. |
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| Arcade Fire – I'm Sleeping in a Submarine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is about when children, little boys, dream of going to war. Arcade Fire seems to like to tackle childish fantasies. “She’s gone to sea! / She’s fighting for me! What bravery!” A little boy has a fantasy that some woman in his life (mother? aunt? some missing family figure?) is fighting for him. Perhaps he’s been told something like that, but he now fantasizes about how brave she is. (Are there any films or novels about a character like this?) “I’m sleeping in a battleship. / I’m sleeping in a submarine. / I’m sleeping in a fighter plane.” This is the woman speaking, though I believe it is simply in his mind. He imagines her playing, sleeping, having a good time. “I’m sleeping going down the drain.” I imagine much of this play taking place in the bathtub because of the submarine, battle ship thoughts. Perhaps the young boy has toys that he plays with in the bathroom, and while the bathtub is being drained, his imagination doesn’t stop. She’s sleeping going down the drain. “Antiaircraft guns / have more fun / in the sun. / All hands on deck! / The radio address, / what a mess!” Perhaps now he is playing on the beach. Really just making a game out of this, the way young children fantasize about war and the absurdity of it all. “A cage is a cage / is a cage, is a cage!” This sums up the song and covers a broad spectrum. Besides all the war tools being described as cages of sorts, the young boy is also in a cage: his imagination. He flatters himself with these fabricated and toy-accompanied dreams, locking himself into a cage. |
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| Arcade Fire – My Heart Is an Apple Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this whole song is an open letter to his family and hometown, basically just his need for escape reiterated into a poetic form. “I'll admit I'm full of shit. / That's how I know I love you. / That's how I know I trust you.” He will admit that he shouldn’t have left his family or hometown for the very principle, and because of that he hopes they both know that he loves and trusts them. “You're not sure if there's a right or wrong. / But it feels like there is when I treat you like this.” It isn’t known whether he should’ve stayed or not, but when he’s rude and abandons in a sense, it’s easily exclaimed that he is wrong. Perhaps arguing in his family leads to people blaming him. “I go outside.” He leaves, goes outside his hometown. “I can't explain why it's a sin, the state I'm living in. / I just feel so tired.” He can’t explain why he wanted to leave other than he just felt so tired. It was just something he truly felt he needed. “My mouth is full, your heart is an apple. / Your mouth is full, my heart is an apple.” Clearly, eating each other up. I still believe this is family. Family are supposed to love and support each other, but end up taking chunks out of each other. This song is very simple and my explanation doesn’t do it any any justice at all. It’s so wonderfully sung, the part where it is only water sounds gives me chills. I also think it’s alluding to Snow White, the fact that “family” (sort of) dumped her off in the woods, and feeding her an apple. The entire thing, I believe, is a loose reference to that, perhaps only in spirit. Haunting. |
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| Arcade Fire – Old Flame Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Very simple, but executed excellently, song about an on and off relationship that doesn’t ever fully stop. “You knew in five minutes, / but I knew in a sentence.” I agree with saying that this refers to the five-minutes theory. Upon meeting, they were both very attracted to each other. “So why do we go through all of this again? / Your eyes are fluttering, such pretty wings, / a moth, flying into the same old flame again. / It never ends.” Clearly, about a relationship that keeps going on and off. He questions why they continue doing, reiterates on her beauty (that moth eyelash is a lovely image), and recognizes that they are seemingly addicted to each other despite the danger. “It's not like I dropped the bomb / on my conscience, mom.” I believe this is him confirming that he knows what he’s doing, knows that the continued relationship is damaging. He knows. It doesn’t stop him. “It takes fighting day and night / to make such a good thing die.” I love how this slightly has a double-meaning. Fighting, as in arguing, and then fighting as in trying hard to make it stop working. Here he recognizes that is is a good thing, they are a good couple, but it’s the fighting (in either sense) that ruins things. “Out, everyone out. I give too much shit at home / in my heart and mind, it gets me every time. “Out, everyone out” is squalled with such emotion. I imagine someone just getting fed up, feeling like he’s trying so hard, giving himself to this relationship (home means perhaps a marriage?) and feels like he is getting nothing in return. “So why do we go through all this shit again? / Your eyes are fluttering, such pretty wings, / a moth flying into me, the same old flame again. / It never ends.” The repetition is wonderful in that it reinforces the idea of never ending. The addition of “shit” again shows much anger, the heightened vocals. It all adds so much emotion. And it never ends. |
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| Bright Eyes – Four Winds Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The overall theme is that religion has been lost in the current world. He examines different aspects of this, and apparently comes to terms with it. “Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe, / there's people always dying trying to keep them alive. / There are bodies decomposing in containers tonight, / in an abandoned building where …” I believe this first stanza introduces what is important for people today. People fight for their country so they can still be American, they fight for their religion so they can still say they’re a Christian, or a Mormon. However, these people merely die and are left alone to decompose, rather than finding happiness, or heaven, or an eternal peace. “… a squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl / with fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl.” I truly enjoy that it’s a squatter that makes this portrait. In almost every religion, it’s important to let go of material objects. The fact that this is a “squatter” and no less an artist, makes it seems so spiritual. I agree with the fifteen cans in that it represents a Quinceañera. People believe they’ve reached a sort of maturity when in reality, fifteen is so very young. This represents the thought that people believe they can exist without religion, as if they’ve grown beyond it. “She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world, / four winds blowing through her hair.” The “end of the world” thought is obvious. I really believe Conor is suggesting that without faith, there is nothing. The four winds represent death. Four winds were breathed into dry bones to create life, and now they are blowing away. “But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon! / She just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed. / She caves.” I believe great Satan is just that: Satan. He is suggesting that without the appeal of evil, the whore of Babylon (The USA, or really, many countries with our need for convenience and flair) will simply collapse. Without trying to do good, without faith, she will simply cave. “The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute. / If you burned them all together you'd be close to the truth, still … ” I do not think this is insulting holy books at all but rather saying that they are not reaching anybody. By burning them, not as an insult, but by combining and renewing their powers, more will get said. Also, the power of fire is very ancient and spectacular. Many a places have gone up in flames only to be replaced by something greater. I believe Conor is suggesting that there be a change. “… they are poring over Sanskrit under Ivy League moons / while shadows lengthen in the sun.” Sanskrit--like someone said earlier--represents looking towards the past. The Ivy League moons, I believe just separate intellectuals, are paying attention to faith, but faith in the past rather than the now. “Cast on a school of meditation built to soften the times / and hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds, / it's knocking over fences, crossing property lines. / Four winds cry until it comes.” I agree that this is a reference to the Yeats poem, the gyre. Today is all about being nice and kind to everyone (not letting anyone in kindergarten getting left out, etc.) that nobody can do anything fantastic to save faith. This de-spiraling is passing across the world. “And it's the sum of man / slouching towards Bethlehem. / A heart just can't contain all of that empty space. / It breaks, it breaks, it breaks.” In the end, he suggest, people will find faith (also a reference to the Yeats poem, of course). Without this love (there’s a God-shaped hole in my heart, yes?) people feel emptiness. “Well, I went back to my rented Cadillac and company jet / like a newly orphaned refugee, retracing my steps. / All the way to Cassadaga to commune with the dead. / They said, "You'd better look alive."“ I believe the first half was Conor criticizing others, and here he recognizes his part. He is renting expensive items even though he knows there is no need (however, note the “renting”; this part of him is not permanent). The retracing steps part is interesting. He seems to be nothing that he is consciously doing something that he has done in the past. Perhaps he is acting as he did when he was younger, now that he recognizes the lack of faith. So he turns to the past, like maybe he always has, but with more fervor by actually attempting to commune with dead. The only advice he gets is to live. “And I was off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps / in the black hills, the bad lands, the calloused east. / I buried my ballast, I made my peace. / Heard four winds leveling the pines.” He heads off to visit the past genocide in Dakota. Something about this makes him get rid of a weight (the ballast), perhaps with the knowledge that humankind has always done bad. Four winds leveling the pines is basically wiping these things away. Either he hears the four winds as life, new faith, coming to destroy the old (like the fire), or coming to destroy all. This song can be very confusing because there can be so many meanings for each line and they seem to clash, twist, intertwine. I think Conor is realizing that his younger, atheistic ways were a bit immature and he’s strengthening his knowledge and appreciation of religion, or faith, whether he subscribes to any, or has any, or not. |
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| Beirut – Cherbourg Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The Port of Cherbourg is located in Normandy. This song is a continuation of Nantes, most definitely. It documents the mans time on the ship, after he’s set off to reconnect with his girlfriend. “And a fall from you / is a long way down. / I've found a better way out.” He has realized the pain he’s been through before with his girl, and insists that he shouldn’t have to endure it again because he knows something better. “Well it's been a long time / since I've seen you smile. / Gambled away my fright / till the morning lights shine.” An allusion to Nantes, what he once did. “Sunday morning / only fog on the limbs. / I called it again. / What do you know?” Imagery of a life on the sea, I believe. “And I filled our days / with cards and gin. / You're alight again, my dear.” He is clearly with friends, and is realizing that the “cards and gin” life is not so bad. She is alight, no longer so high up in his mind, in his life. “I will lead the way, oh, lead the way / when I know.” He plans to direct the ship (also a metaphor for his life) when he knows where he wants to go, meaning he doesn’t, meaning he is no longer going towards her. “And I'll sleep away, oh, sweep away / what I don't.” He is getting rid of the notion of her. “Well seize the way, oh, seize the way, / oh, I hope. / I will lead the way, oh, lead the day when I know.” The punch line, he is accepting his life on the sea, wandering. He is intending to enjoy, not make any plans as he was before. However, he realizes that at some point he will need direction. He simply does not have it yet. |
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| Beirut – A Sunday Smile Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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In a book called History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France by William Francis Patrick Napier, I read about an assault on a place simply called the White Church. I believe this song assessed this event, or a soldiers thoughts during his attack on the White Church. “What’s to say for the days I cannot bare.” I believe here he is preparing to introduce what in his head he imagines when he is having a hard time in the war. “A Sunday smile, you wore it for a while. / A cemetery mile, we paused and sang.” He thinks of her smile on a specific day, this day being spent in (or by) a cemetery. Even surrounded by death, the two of them were frightfully happy. I believe he thinks of this because now as he is surrounded by death, he is unhappy. “We burnt to the ground, left for you to admire / with buildings inside church of white.” I think here he is proclaiming that his acts in the war will be something they can look back on. From the aforementioned book: “Heated shot were however thrown at the White Church with a view to burn the magazines; …” “We burnt to the ground, left a grave to admire. / And as we reach for the sky, reach the church of white.” He is trying to find good in his acts, thinking that maybe lovers will somebody walk by the cemetery he created and be able to dance. Also, he describes reaching for the white church. They never actually succeeded in destroying it. I think this represents the hope. He reaches for the sky, the same way he fully believes in his relationship with his girl back home. It’s what keeps him going. And yet they didn’t burn the White Church down. So what does this say about everything? |
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| Beirut – Nantes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I believe this song is about setting off to get the one you love, almost a bit like that scene in “Across the Universe” where Jude comes back to get his girl, eh? Except with a French setting. “Well it's been a long time, long time now / since I've seen you smile.” A very nice way of saying he hasn’t seen who he’s missing for a long time. “And I'll gamble away my fright / and I'll gamble away my time.” He is scared to set off on his journey, and in the meantime he can only try and get rid of his fear and also the time leading up until when he plans to leave. “And in a year, a year or so / this will slip into the sea.” The year is the timeline. So after a year, he is going to embark. Considering Nantes is rather close to the Atlantic, it makes sense he would be residing there. “Nobody raise your voices / just another night in Nantes.” While this is basically the punch line of the song, it is also very mild and timid. The narrator is asking for peace and quiet, it’s just another night at home. I believe the journey he’s setting off on, to win his love, will be rather noisy and filled with excitement and he asking for downtime before he leaves. I believe the significance of the scene from the movie is perhaps something that happened with his woman. She insisted he leave her while he was fighting against it. Really a simple scene painted against absolutely wondrous music. |
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| The Weakerthans – Night Windows Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The truly beautiful thing about this song is the imagery. Even though we have an image to accompany it (the Hopper painting), the lyrics themselves paint wonderful pictures. I also believe this song is about a close friend, probably from childhood, who has died in the war. “In the stick count for the song / of knowing you’re gone.” I believe the narrator is taking a night walk, missing his friend, and either listening to music, or creating one (this one in his head). Therefore the song becomes the song of “knowing you’re gone.” “I see you suddenly alive / and nearly smiling. / I stop and hold my breath / and watch the way you used to be. / The full moon makes / our faces shine / like over-ironed polyester, / then disappears behind the clouds / and leaves me under empty rows / of night windows.” I believe the moonlight creates a shadow in the window of his old home, which is not inhabited by others. He thinks for a second that it could be his friend, he could still be there, and he watches. However, when the light changes, it all goes away and he’s simply there beneath night windows. “We could walk to where these streets / get pulled together, / blinking, lined with gravel / shoulder squared towards an end. / Where the radio resounds / from Doppling traffic, / where the power lines /steal esses from the hourly news.” This is where the imagery gets really lovely. It also slides perfectly into the news, assuming that’s where he heard his friend died. “De-pluralize our casualties, / drown the generals out in static. / We turn and watch our city sprawl / and send us signals in the glow / of night windows.” I believe this is a contrast of the war to how they live. The information about the war gets lost in people’s daily lives, lights on at night. “(But you’re not coming home again / and I won’t ever get to say…) / remember how… / I’m sorry that… / I miss the way… / could we…?” A very sad end, admittance that the person is dead and little daily phrases won’t be able to be used anymore in conversation, just like night windows can never exist as a simple human thing. They are so much more than that. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Game Shows Touch Our Lives Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I believe in this song the Alpha husband goes back and forth from wishing his life was so much more and being somewhat satisfied with what it is. “Dug up a fifth of Hood River gin / ” It’s sort of ironic that Hood River gin is known for it’s bowler hat which represents an English gentlemen. The Alpha couple is so far from that. This could represent their desire for luxury, but they’re lack of effort to try to actually obtain it. “ / music on the television playing our song. / I'm in the mood, / the mood for you.” I believe that the music is a game show theme song, considering the rest of the lyrics. The fact that this music gets him in mood insinuates that the prospect of luxury is what turns him on. Or perhaps he believes his wife is the luxury, the prize. Or both. We effectively get an image of a sort of white trash household. They sit around all day drinking and smoking in the dark with the TV on loudly. I believe this is very important, because they live very far from luxury. Their lifestyle is described with a jutting honesty as if the narrator doesn’t even realize these things are unhealthy, just facts. So lines like, “I held onto you with a desperate strength, with everything, with everything in me,” are especially touching. He seems to realize that “everything” in him is not much, and all he can do is hold on to her. “People say friends don’t destroy one another, / what do they know about friends?” I believe this is the narrator’s fear that his wife will rise above him. The entire song, everyone and everything else seems to be above the two of them. He knows he is so far down, so he desires to keep her down too and believes that that is friendship, or rather, sticking together. “Thunder clouds forming, cream white moon, everything's gonna be okay soon. / Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day.” This line is very important. We see a storm forming. So does the couple. Above that is the “cream white moon”, which I believe represents the luxury that is so far out of their reach and even above the storm. However, the narrator insists things will be okay. It seems very ignorant and blind. It is either that, or he believes his wife and him will stay (down) together, and in that sense, everything will be okay. “Carried you up the stairs that night, / all of this could be yours, if the price is right.” The couple lives in a state of fantasy. As mentioned before, there are points where the narrator seems to realize that his wife is all he has (and perhaps needs), but when he’s not in that clarity, they seem to like to pretend that things are perfect. He’s carrying her up, fantasizing about winning a game show. “I heard cars headed down to oblivion on the expressway.” This again is a representation of the people above him. “Your drunken kiss is as light as the air. / Maybe everything that falls down, eventually rises.” More of the above us sort of theme. Her drunken kiss is “light” but he recognizes that they’re down, and hopes they can rise. “Our house sinking into disrepair. / Ah, but look at this showroom, filled with fabulous prizes.” This last line sums up the feeling held throughout the entire piece. It’s a final realization that their house, their home, is a mess. And yet, there is the showroom--in their minds, in their love. And then the question is, will that be enough? |
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| The Velvet Underground – All Tomorrow's Parties Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is about "Thursday's Child". Thursday's Child, in the nursery rhyme, is described as having "far to go". This description could mean that she is a sort of lost soul and has much to encounter before "getting there", or being happy. Thursday's Child is also rather mournful. She can't enjoy herself at the parties; this is because she does not know how she is supposed to be. "And what costume shall the poor girl wear / to all tomorrow's parties." The poor girl is, of course, Thursday's Child. The fact that she is searching for a costume means that she is desiring to cover her identity up. "All tomorrow's parties" is really just the future, as tomorrow technically never comes. The parties are probably really parties, like in the previous factory ideas. At a party, many people drink or take drugs to alter their personality. This girl may do this often because she doesn't know how to act without these substances. "A hand-me-down dress from who knows where..." We know the dress, the costume, is coming from someone else, but not even the girl knows who it is from. She is clothing herself in costumes that don't even have any meaning to her, just as long as they are something, or rather someone else's. "And where will she go and what shall she do / when midnight comes around. / She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown / and cry behind the door." Midnight is the doorway between today and tomorrow. Tomorrow, the future, is what she's always worried about (remember, she has far to go). As midnight and tomorrow approaches, she gets panicked. She realizes she still cannot go anywhere acting how she might act, and decides to turn to God. I believe "Sunday's clown" is Jesus. Not that Jesus is a clown, but that the way his image is produced can easily be a costume and any costume can be described as clown-like. She turns to a "savior" and mourns her behavior, hiding from everyone and crying. Even now though, she is hiding when is crying. Her mourning is the only thing that is nature to herself--everything else she picks up from others--and even that, she hides. "Why silks and linens of yesterday's gowns.../ ... and what will she do with Thursday's rags / when Monday comes around." I believe "silks and linens" mean that the costumes when she gets a hold of them are pure, rich. However, after she is done with them they are soiled, have become rags. This is a representation of her sinful nature. She takes the beautiful lives that others have produces, put them on herself trying to absorb the goodness, but alters herself so deeply that there is nothing good left, because there is none of her. "For Thursday's child is Sunday's clown / for whom none will go mourning." I believe this means that even the repentful Thursday's Child is in costume. Others can see this and do not feel remorse for her. "A blackened shroud, a hand-me-down gown / of rags and silks, a costume / fit for one who sits and cries / for all tomorrow's parties." In conclusion, Thursday's Child takes beautiful clothing, beautiful lives and plasters them on herself. She goes to parties and alters her mindset so that she hardly exists. She soils the clothing (both physically and metaphorically) and people watch her without sorrow because she is doing this to herself. Each week she attempts to repent, but even that is an act. In the end, the only thing that is truly a representation of who she is are the dirty clothes. Thursday's Child has far to go. |
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