Mitski song interpretations!!

Eric

Lyrics:

You like control, well, I do too
Take off my clothes and watch me move
You can come closer, I'll let you hurt me
How you choose

Help me with the zipper on my skirt, it's stuck
As you kneel, I'll be watching you fix me
This view of you, of the top of your head
Makes me forgive you

But how long, how long can we play this way?
I'm tired, I'm tired of not loving you
My heart, my heart wants to hold you
But I know, I know, I know the rules

Blue light, dark room, the white of your teeth
As you smile at my trembling shoulders
But your skin, did you notice your skin?
It cries a soft weep like mine

I'll sell, I'll sell my whole to you
What's my, what's my, what's my price?
How about, how about just a part of you?
'Cause I want, I want, I want, I want
I want, I want, I want, I want, I want

In this song, we can see how the singer can never make up her mind wether if she wants to give everything in a relationship or she wants to give nothing.

The singer is incapable of being in a healthy relationship as she gives to much and is given nothing. What I can infere is that the singer is trying to remain in this relationship even though she is only being seen for her body, she tries to convince herself that this relationship is the correct decision even when there wasn't love in the first place.

She lets her partner do whatever they want with her as long as they stick with her, she fears abandonment and will do anything to not feel alone.

In the lines "As you kneel, I'll be watching you fix me" and "I'll sell, I'll sell my whole to you, what's my, what's my, what's my price?" she is objectifying herself, saying that she can be fixed, given a price, symbolising giving a purpose, a value to her life.

Ending with "I want" repeatedly, could mean the way she intends to keep up with this act and how she is going to keep taking more.