I think they're referring to the changes the body goes through. "Will you watch petals shed from flowers in bloom?" Only much later do a lot of people find out that it's an actual thing and that they're not crazy. Parents try to tell their child that what they're feeling is wrong, just a phase and something they should forget about. Will a child realize that they're transgender? (possibly before puberty) A lot of children do acknowledge that they don't feel like the gender they were assigned, but a lot of them don't realize that it may be an actual thing, instead of something weird that they only go through. To exhume means to dig up, this could refer to their identity.
How long could they hold on to the body before it starts maturing? Could they ever preserve that? Would the people around them let them? So here they could be referring to the body before being changed by puberty. If this process is paused (with the use of hormone blockers) transitioning becomes much easier.
When gaining secondary sex characteristics, a body tends to become more masculine/feminine. Preserve could refer to the body before puberty. "Will you ever preserve, will you ever exhume?" I’m sure Alice would clarify in the future.My InterpretationKeeping the title in mind, I think this song might be about the suffering transgender people go through with their bodies while growing up. Alice coincidentally (like Autumn) had diaries and poetry books around the time of (I) and (II) so wouldn’t be surprised if most songs on those album were written mostly by her. otherwise not sure why she would perform choose to perform them. The whole statement “Edith” came out with on Amnesty’s release about the world being at a critical Tipping point, supporting vulnerable people and advocating human rights whilst at the very same time preying on the vulnerable like vultures.ĭon’t think we will ever know which songs didn’t involve Ethan, however we know from Alice’s solo shows that she at least wrote Love & Caring, Alice Practice, Black Panther (she posted on twitter saying she wanted to take this song back but never ended up performing it), and potentially suffocation and celestica. Was just a smokescreen for Ethan’s abuse. The kiss you did not earn" if I remember correctly, as for everything else I'm not sure, I think they wrote III together but Violent Youth features his vocalsĪmnesty: Autumn wrote Char, Femen samples a Nirvana written song, Edith helped write Enth - Concrete & Fleece, Kept samples 2 Beach House songs III: Ethan wrote Sad Eyes in 2006 as a Kill Cheerleader Song but Alice wrote 2 lines herself I can't remember what exactly but I think it was " Feign care and warm concern
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Alice Practice, Love & Caring, xxzxcuzx me, Black Panther, Courtship Dating, Through The Hosiery, TMWTS we're all written by Alice and taken from her lyric book back when she joined cc in 2006 where as every other song uses sampled vocals along with sampled beats to make instrumental so this album is the least Ethan-yĬelestica was written by Alice and mostly produced by Paul Epworth (Ethan only made the concept of it/lead synth) Pap Smear was written by Alice about her friend, Alice did most of the work for the song Birds (idk how to word this right cause idk shit about instruments lool but she created the guitar melody(?) and wrote the lyrics) Seed, MKB, Insectica we're all written by Alice at the very start of CC, Not In Love was written by Platinum Blonde but yea the rest of the II tracks written by both of them working together, tracks like Violent Dreams, YOS, Vietnam all used sampled vocals, Luke Leeder helped write Baptism, songs Intimate and IAMOC both feature Ethan's vocals (IAMOC being a duet with him and Alice though)