I'm getting the impression of rape, too... But it sounds more to me like child molestation. Like, it was on a regular basis. When she was a child, she was disturbed because of it all (hence the "voices in her head" and a very troubled girl"). She was probably thinking about suicide when she was a young ("to lay upon the grave of a very troubled girl") Yet, when she grows up ("woke up one morning"), she overcomes her past, and can still be a good person ("Singing Hallelujah... Remember me for my passion, the paradise that I imagined.)
I dunno, in my interpretation, the verses are her past, and the refrain would be her present, I guess...
I'm getting the impression of rape, too... But it sounds more to me like child molestation. Like, it was on a regular basis. When she was a child, she was disturbed because of it all (hence the "voices in her head" and a very troubled girl"). She was probably thinking about suicide when she was a young ("to lay upon the grave of a very troubled girl") Yet, when she grows up ("woke up one morning"), she overcomes her past, and can still be a good person ("Singing Hallelujah... Remember me for my passion, the paradise that I imagined.)
I dunno, in my interpretation, the verses are her past, and the refrain would be her present, I guess...
Just my thoughts on it.