not even occurred to me until I read your post. As for the first verse, I think it is like glosoli said, a case of troubles at home. I am not sure whose mother the lyrics are talking about, but surely the line "Love, was the air in your mother's lungs" is a reference to what is literally keeping her alive in response to "her father tore her fences down," i.e. her father degrading her in one way or another. I am not sure to whom or what the 'love' is directed to but it is what is keeping her going. Finally, the references to plastic bags and panadol are escapes from life that she could have taken. Plastic bags can be used for suicide, (perfect analogy to the previous line about "air in her lungs") and panadol is simply a reinforcer to the idea of suicide with its function as a painkiller, or escape from reality. Very good. I hadn't figured out the suicide imagery before. Also there is the idea that you can attempt suicide by grinding up a whole pack of panadol and mixing it into your drink. And love is what makes her keep wanting to breathe. Shit. verse one. my mothers father killed himself when she was ten years old. her upbringing before that event was hellish to put it kindly. her father and sister were schizophrenic, which meant the money and attention of her mother and family was poured into them. she and her