I suppose I'm the only one who happens to think that this song is referring to a father-figure. It sounds like she admires him, but he doesn't really show appreciation for her. And because she talks about how brilliant he is and him teaching her about his philosophies of life and views on art, it also makes me think it's someone much older. Um...the part where she's like, "you teach me of honest things...things that were daring things, that were clean...things I knew what an honest dollar did mean. I hid my soiled hands behind my back..." I'm thinking that he's a pure person who is teaching her to be the same, and she's sinned and she's trying to hide those sins (soiled hands) from him.
I suppose I'm the only one who happens to think that this song is referring to a father-figure. It sounds like she admires him, but he doesn't really show appreciation for her. And because she talks about how brilliant he is and him teaching her about his philosophies of life and views on art, it also makes me think it's someone much older. Um...the part where she's like, "you teach me of honest things...things that were daring things, that were clean...things I knew what an honest dollar did mean. I hid my soiled hands behind my back..." I'm thinking that he's a pure person who is teaching her to be the same, and she's sinned and she's trying to hide those sins (soiled hands) from him.