I adore this song. It makes my spine tingle.
What I get from it is that it's about being used by guys in high school. She's not one of the "pretty girls", so they don't want her for anything else but sex. The line "He said 'you're really an ugly girl/but I like the way you play'" is significant; "play" ie, fuck.
The guys are using her, she wants to "smash the faces" of these guys, but yet she is still "dressing up everyday" to impress them, all because they're popular, "beautiful".
The "pretty girls" are not being used, she's not one of them; she doesn't know where they are. Comparing popular girls to "demi gods" is wonderful; so true of high school, if you're popular, you basically are a demi-god.
All her memories of these times are her "precious things", and she wants to wash them away, so she forgets them.
"Let them bleed": they are bloody, painful memories.
"Let them break their hold on me": they take her over, she can't forget them, but she wants to. The boys also had a hold on her; she didn't want to be doing these things, but she still did because they were "beautiful".
Some of the best lines EVER in songwriting to me are "So you can make me cum/That doesn't make you Jesus". Quite a lot of men think that if they can please a girl sexually they are some kind of God, but she's saying that actually, they're not at all. Being good at sex and a good person are two completely different things.
I adore this song. It makes my spine tingle. What I get from it is that it's about being used by guys in high school. She's not one of the "pretty girls", so they don't want her for anything else but sex. The line "He said 'you're really an ugly girl/but I like the way you play'" is significant; "play" ie, fuck. The guys are using her, she wants to "smash the faces" of these guys, but yet she is still "dressing up everyday" to impress them, all because they're popular, "beautiful". The "pretty girls" are not being used, she's not one of them; she doesn't know where they are. Comparing popular girls to "demi gods" is wonderful; so true of high school, if you're popular, you basically are a demi-god. All her memories of these times are her "precious things", and she wants to wash them away, so she forgets them. "Let them bleed": they are bloody, painful memories. "Let them break their hold on me": they take her over, she can't forget them, but she wants to. The boys also had a hold on her; she didn't want to be doing these things, but she still did because they were "beautiful". Some of the best lines EVER in songwriting to me are "So you can make me cum/That doesn't make you Jesus". Quite a lot of men think that if they can please a girl sexually they are some kind of God, but she's saying that actually, they're not at all. Being good at sex and a good person are two completely different things.