maybe ask tori online? she might tell you.
to me, it seems to be about how people beat themselves up over nothing. the "saviour complex," thinking (a) they should be saving everyone somehow, (b) they're not, so (c) they need to get all dramatic about it and castigate themselves....
but i don't think it's quite as clear as the person above me thinks (or to me it's not, anyway). i'm fairly sure tori had a particular person in mind while writing it. that's just my guess, but i have a somewhat good track record with guesses on artistic creations (i've been able to check with the artists occasionally).
she's probably also writing about herself. as an artist and a person who's been around a lot of things in my life, i've seen that artists are almost always referring--at some level--to personal experience.
after all, it's one's feelings and perceptions that trigger the desire to express those to others, right?
one more thing: like most art, there are probably many layers of meaning to it, and what it says to *you* is 100% one of those layers. whether or not the artist intentionally meant it that way.
that's what makes some art "great" (vs just ok or interesting): that it reaches into each one who experiences it and pulls out a personal, significant reaction to it.
27 Nov 2009, 12:43 am
