Spoken like a souvenir
Touch all of your childhood fears
Keep them at a gentle pace
Closer now to feel their heat

Somebody says, I love you
All those years you never knew
All the things that I could do
I keep them in a hidden place
So I can rub them in your face

Somebody says, Somebody Says, Somebody says
I made you (I made you, I made you)

Breed! Breed on your own!
You're always alone
You suffering clone

Maybe you're not good enough
Good enough to make me blush
So many reasons I can find
To kill this little clone of mine
I hold your grace
Like a broken vase
You've been replaced
'Cause I made you

Somebody says, Somebody says
Breed! Breed on your own
You're always alone
You suffering clone
(I made you)

Breed, breed on your own
You're always alone
You suffering clone
Somebody says, I love you
Somebody says, I love you


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    My Interpretation

    I think everyone has it wrong, it’s not about someone she wants to have sex with. It’s about her mother, or parents in general. Constantly stating “I love you” yet a negative tone towards that statement, along with the “I made you.” I think the I made you is meant to be taken literally. “Breed on your own” could be about how the mother would get knocked up and not keep with the father. I think the “Somebody says, I love you” could be them having trouble to properly refer to that person as anything other than a somebody, because their difficult relationship with that parent, yet the parent still says they love them.

    On top of that, she mentions a clone a couple of times, being the broken part of herself that entertains the idea of their parent loving them? Possibly. What a confusing song, i love it!

    tl;dr - the song is talking about the parent who abandons the child and she possibly resents that feeling of any connection towards them.

    Snoigelon November 02, 2022   Link

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