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**tpJKhY8Z** · 09-21-2012, 04:19 PM

I liked reading your perspective, yoshi. I have a hard time with this song.

To me, the song starts out okay. Someone here a while back suggested that the "rose so red" is the form she finally, successfully takes after the end of The Chase. It calls up her other songs like "Blood Roses" (where she's being ruthless & vicious) with the lyric "find love instead of their blood by my thorn." Tori loves the rose metaphor. It's all over her catalog. (OMG red & black madonnas/Marys!) She does a nice turn with it here.

Within the context of the album, the rest of the lyrics really come out of left field though. "children's dreams" "holy father you must ask forgiveness from the earth" It's just too much cheese in what should have been the barn-storming center of the album.

09-21-2012, 04:19 PM	#3
tpJKhY8Z Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 514 Senior Member	I liked reading your perspective, yoshi. I have a hard time with this song. To me, the song starts out okay. Someone here a while back suggested that the "rose so red" is the form she finally, successfully takes after the end of The Chase. It calls up her other songs like "Blood Roses" (where she's being ruthless & vicious) with the lyric "find love instead of their blood by my thorn." Tori loves the rose metaphor. It's all over her catalog. (OMG red & black madonnas/Marys!) She does a nice turn with it here. Within the context of the album, the rest of the lyrics really come out of left field though. "children's dreams" "holy father you must ask forgiveness from the earth" It's just too much cheese in what should have been the barn-storming center of the album.
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