ethel cain - strangers
an analysis on strangers, no one asked, but i'm here to do it. i think it's an absolutely incredible song that is SO well written and captures the feeling of being in love with someone, but them not you. i'm not a poet but i did love english literature in school, so i'll try my best to analyse it in my own way and draw on references and feelings i associate with it. of course this isn't definitive or compared, but i just love the song so much. (the whole album follows a story of cannibalism which is a lot to summarise but i'm gonna analyse it without that in mind LOL.) "in your basement, i grow cold, thinking back to what i was always told , "don't talk to strangers or you might fall in love" in my eyes, ethel is at her lowest in the basement. usually a place for unwanted things and to keep things out of sight, her lover is treating her in that way and discarding her and she is left to just reflect on her relationship. the advice not to tal...