here's my first feeling about the song (i don't know if he's interviewed about this song or whatever, i tend to take the text on its own anyway... sorry, english major moment). ok, so it seems to me to be about a shitty parent child/relationship. the first lines are from the father's perspective i guess and i have trouble making them correlate directly to the rest of the song, but that's also not necessarily important. the last part of the song, about the girl whose school colors are black and light black reminds me of melodramatic emo kids... no offense, emo kids, i too had my emo phase. the line "giving it up" reads as sexual to me but there are many possibilites. it calls to mind a daughter who is depressed and getting into a mess because her parents maybe don't know what's going on. the last four lines could be actions representative of the scale of things she'd have to do to make her father notice and get back at him (that whole "you'll be sorry when i'm dead" thing). of course, the beauty of the thing is its ambiguity and many possible readings (read: don't bitch me out if you don't agree).
here's my first feeling about the song (i don't know if he's interviewed about this song or whatever, i tend to take the text on its own anyway... sorry, english major moment). ok, so it seems to me to be about a shitty parent child/relationship. the first lines are from the father's perspective i guess and i have trouble making them correlate directly to the rest of the song, but that's also not necessarily important. the last part of the song, about the girl whose school colors are black and light black reminds me of melodramatic emo kids... no offense, emo kids, i too had my emo phase. the line "giving it up" reads as sexual to me but there are many possibilites. it calls to mind a daughter who is depressed and getting into a mess because her parents maybe don't know what's going on. the last four lines could be actions representative of the scale of things she'd have to do to make her father notice and get back at him (that whole "you'll be sorry when i'm dead" thing). of course, the beauty of the thing is its ambiguity and many possible readings (read: don't bitch me out if you don't agree).