Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!mit-eddie!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!nessus@ATHENA.MIT.EDU From: nessus@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: "The Kick Inside"/"Don't Push..." inquiries... Message-ID: <8912182248.AA14975@GAFFA.MIT.EDU> Date: 10 Mar 90 11:02:51 GMT Sender: nessus@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Doug Alan Organization: MIT Lines: 24 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu -------- > From: n8344141@unicorn.wwu.edu (paul carpentier) > While drinking Renton, Washington Coffee, a former KateHouse visitor > asked me if the song "The Kick Inside" was a suicide note, probably > from the perspective of the female who was incestuously impregnated. It is indeed. In fact it is based on a traditional folk song with the same story line. > He also asked if "Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake", or any part > of it, was about Emma slashing her wrists. Gee, your friend is obsessed with suicide, eh? Who can tell what the "red, red glass is bleeding" refers to? I don't think the wrist-slashing interpretation makes sense, though. "But she's so O.D.'d on weeping/ She can hardly see,/ That she's dropping beads,/ (Red, red glass is bleeding)" If she slashed her wrists, how could she not know that she was bleeding? It seems to me more likely that the bleeding is a metaphor for her losing her life energy. |>oug "S is for SUSAN who perished of fits"