"I think everybody's life has
reoccuring themes and a lot of those themes are not particularly
healthy. In spite of being not healthy and painful, I think
as human beings we're conditioned to kind of go back to
them and repeat them because it's what we know from our
childhood and we're comfortable with it, right? So the song
addresses incest, actually. It's just two different portraits
and it's pretty simple in its structure. It throws out a
scene early on of a child and then it takes her to her wedding
day - and there's a common theme between this person who
abused her when she was young and her husband that just
pops out all of a sudden. 'I see it coming 'round again.'"
It's probably the extreme of what I'm talking about. It's
probably my least favorite one to divulge that information
about because it's my favorite lyric on the whole record...
I sound like I'm patting myself on the back, I guess I am
- I feel like I got it right on that one, and between the
music, melody and lyrics there's a lot of space there for
people to make their own assumptions. I have people close
to me who think it's something about babies and that's fine
in a way."
[2006-06-03 interview]
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