I actually thought the song was about something entirely different from Courtney and the cancer child theory. A general interpretation I had was how love is really just a disguised prison that forces us to make bad decisions at times.
"I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks"
Love is represented as the heart-shaped box, but what's disturbing is that its not truly a heart. Its only a box which looks like a heart but whose true purpose isn't to feel (emotions) but to imprison. So perhaps there's truly no in the relationship he's singing about and he's beginning to realize that.
The meat eating orchids could be showing how appealing something is, yet it uses its beauty in order to lure prey (like drugs)
The magnet tar pit trap is showing how inevitable it would be for him to fall for this fake love, the heart shaped box. The magnet is drawing him into the tar pit, the tar keeps him from escaping, and the pit is used to show how dark it is where he's been trapped.
I'm wondering if angel's hair and baby's breath are allusions to drugs because I do recall hearing about some sort of drug that had angel in its name. If so, I'm thinking about how perhaps this is what caused him to realize that the love wasn't real. The person that tells him that she loves him is also telling him to take these drugs, which seem so wonderful with such appealing names, but he knows how much they harm him once he "cuts" himself using them. Maybe at this point he thinks along the lines of "if she loved me, why would she want me to harm myself?"
I'm not really sure about the hymen and the umbilical cord. My theory is that he hates how everything is so impure/tainted (broken hymen-loss of innocence) and perhaps wants to "climb back" to innocence, before he met fake love, drugs, and corruption.
The priceless advice is sort of using sarcasm, or veiled anger. This guy is angry at all the horrors he's had to face because of his metaphorical imprisonment by the heart shaped box. He's angry at the pressure that was put on him to do things that should never have been done, to harm himself. He's also angry that he accepted that sort of advice. His new complaint is that he is forever in debt to this priceless advice, in other words, he's fucking pissed that he's been damaged, further corrupted, whatever it was that this shitty "advice" pressured him to do that left him with bad memories.
I actually thought the song was about something entirely different from Courtney and the cancer child theory. A general interpretation I had was how love is really just a disguised prison that forces us to make bad decisions at times.
"I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks" Love is represented as the heart-shaped box, but what's disturbing is that its not truly a heart. Its only a box which looks like a heart but whose true purpose isn't to feel (emotions) but to imprison. So perhaps there's truly no in the relationship he's singing about and he's beginning to realize that.
The meat eating orchids could be showing how appealing something is, yet it uses its beauty in order to lure prey (like drugs)
The magnet tar pit trap is showing how inevitable it would be for him to fall for this fake love, the heart shaped box. The magnet is drawing him into the tar pit, the tar keeps him from escaping, and the pit is used to show how dark it is where he's been trapped.
I'm wondering if angel's hair and baby's breath are allusions to drugs because I do recall hearing about some sort of drug that had angel in its name. If so, I'm thinking about how perhaps this is what caused him to realize that the love wasn't real. The person that tells him that she loves him is also telling him to take these drugs, which seem so wonderful with such appealing names, but he knows how much they harm him once he "cuts" himself using them. Maybe at this point he thinks along the lines of "if she loved me, why would she want me to harm myself?"
I'm not really sure about the hymen and the umbilical cord. My theory is that he hates how everything is so impure/tainted (broken hymen-loss of innocence) and perhaps wants to "climb back" to innocence, before he met fake love, drugs, and corruption.
The priceless advice is sort of using sarcasm, or veiled anger. This guy is angry at all the horrors he's had to face because of his metaphorical imprisonment by the heart shaped box. He's angry at the pressure that was put on him to do things that should never have been done, to harm himself. He's also angry that he accepted that sort of advice. His new complaint is that he is forever in debt to this priceless advice, in other words, he's fucking pissed that he's been damaged, further corrupted, whatever it was that this shitty "advice" pressured him to do that left him with bad memories.
very excellent interpretation. I couldn't agree more!
very excellent interpretation. I couldn't agree more!