Cheap Curtains
Unraveling Shadows: A Poetic Tale of Broken Threads
Lyrics
Waking up has gotten really hard
Expressing difficulty in waking up.
Body has gotten so used to the dark
Body adapted to darkness, making waking up challenging.
You know today
A statement about the current day.
I won't be moving much at all
Anticipation of minimal movement today.
That sting of light will surely find its way
Reference to light penetrating through a gap in curtains.
Through the gap
Describing the gap in the curtains.
Where the cloth has come away
The cloth is coming off, allowing light to enter.
Has it torn?
Questioning if the cloth has torn.
I guess it's just fabric after all
Realization that it's just fabric.
Pull them further to the left side
Instruction to pull the curtains to the left.
Pull them harder to the right
Instruction to pull the curtains harder to the right.
Oh, Cheap Curtains
Addressing the curtains as "Cheap Curtains."
I've watched your threads
Observation of the threads of the curtains coming undone.
As they've all but come undone
Noting the unraveling of threads meant to keep separation.
Meant to keep us apart
Intention of the curtains to keep individuals apart.
Instead they come apart
Ironically, the curtains fail to fulfill their purpose.
Your edges start to fray
Describing the fraying edges of the curtains.
I'll bind your threads
Expressing the intent to mend the curtains.
And shut the world away
Wanting to shut the world away by fixing the curtains.
Meant to keep us apart
Original purpose of the curtains was to create distance.
Instead you fall apart
The curtains, however, fail to maintain separation.
Behind these blinds
Reference to a private space behind the curtains.
Is where I come to life
The place where the person feels alive is behind the blinds.
Hack my hair with a blunt kitchen knife
Symbolic act of cutting hair, possibly representing change.
And I believe
A belief in perceiving fear in the eyes of one's children.
Thats fear in my children's eyes
Suggesting the speaker has children.
Behind the dark and straining to see
Being in the dark and struggling to see.
Distorted shapes of my memories
Seeing distorted shapes of memories.
And a vague outline of my family.
A vague outline of the speaker's family is visible.
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