What's the meaning of this song HEART-SHAPED BOX by nirvana/evanescence?

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak


I've been locked inside your Heart Shaped box for weeks


I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap


I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black





Hey!


Wait!


I've got a little complaint


Forever in debt to your priceless advice


hate!


haight!


I've got a little complaint


Forever in debt to your priceless advice


Hey!


Wait!


I've got a little complaint


Forever in debt to your priceless advice





...your advice





Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet


Cut myself on Angel Hair and baby's breath


Broken hymen of your highness I'm left black


Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back

What's the meaning of this song HEART-SHAPED BOX by nirvana/evanescence?
Okay, to simplify this, it'll be the heartless girl the song is about and the guy who is trapped by it. This is my own interpretation of the lyrics without outside influence, so I could be way off.





The girl he's with is controling and has a higher-than-thou attitude, and he feels trapped in the relationship. The heart-shaped box is saying she doesn't have a heart, just an imitation, and also implies the cage he feels in locked in. He considers her magnetic and beautiful, but deadly at the same time (Magnetic tar pit and Meat-eating orchid[the orchid and the mention of cancer implies that she is internaly weak at the very core]). She obviously thinks of herself higher than him, since her advice is priceless, and since he calls her 'highness'.





The song is about him trying to break away and leave her, but he can't, he's connected to her, as much as he doesn't seem to want to be; he asks her to throw down her umbilical noose(implying a motherly connection that is unbreakable and a sucide) so he can voluntarily climb back into the relationship, for what reason, no one knows.
Reply:everlastinge.... got it right ^^^
Reply:I think that all depends on your sense of awareness at the moment like are drugs involved or are you sober?????
Reply:I was once told by a friend that the best songs are the ones that leave the lyrics open to interpretation. I think that this is one of those songs.





About this song in particular, an ex-bf told me that the song is about sex.

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