I just read my dear friend Jeremy's post on this band. While he digs into particular LP's of a bands, you know me...it's all about the song. Something new here, a song not really related to my actual life. However, I do listen to this song quite often.
When I first heard this song I was so very captivated. To be honest the music and her voice is what got me. Then when I read the lyrics and saw the title I was full on in love with the song. Plath Heart as a title makes me think of the loverly haunting Sylvia Plath.
Okay, lyrics aside the music is amazing. It brings in happy and disturbing imagery. You know the kind where it seems like a dream but, it's not. I think of a long summers day with someone you want but, have never had. You have that one day, those moments. Sunflower filled fields. I see a man, he's watching her spin in this golden feild and her dress is turning, she is laughing and smile nose to the sun. He runs up to her and embraces her in his arms. Her feet up in the arm she leans in kisses him. He sets her down and she runs looking back coyly at him right in his eyes. He chases after her and they fall to the ground. They kind of fumble around for a bit and then magic happens. They look into one anothers eyes and she touches his face. They embrace and have that moment. Night falls and they are still in that sunflowered field. They notice stars and look up above and she lays her head upon his chest. A slumber sets in and when he awakes. She is gone. The sun is bright and in his eyes. He thinks he sees her standing but, the sun makes it hard to know for sure.
Here are the lyrics:
there's no loving after
all this crap we've been through
if I've not come up back to you
pretty boy your smile
planting in my spine
don't get a hold on me
is it time
we're meant to be free
no only faith
only faith
only faith
didn't do exactly what you told me
when you scold me
leads me to implore the
golden hole which was
surely given to make
beautiful children
and push and push and push
and out slides the golden baby
with nice dark hair
and beating in like thin air
not your eyes
just the beating of a plath heart
shooting in the wet dark
I poke and turn
you smoke and yearn
take me my darling for
i've been waiting so long
for you to come
It seems to me she is talking to two different people. One she feels she has let down and for some reason hold on to, and one she longs for one she wants to want her. Just my take.