Meg & Dia: Monster Meaning
Song Released: 2006
Monster Lyrics
Love Me. Love Me.
That's all I ask for.
Love Me. Love Me.
He battered his tiny fists to feel something.
Wondered what it's like to touch and feel something.
Monster.
How should I feel?
Creatures lie here.
Looking...
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It's about a boy who was born throughout rape, therefore 'glass child'. His mother stayed with the man who raped her, therefore a rapist husband and a glass child (hannah's regret).The boy then grew up not knowing of any natural emotion, meeting the girl. He abused her thinking that was love, because he was brought up being treated that way. The girl he raped then got pregnant with a glass child, so henry, realising he really was a monster went and killed himself by bathing in Kerosene and broken glass and then lighting it (glow flies). Implying the process is repeated, could also be hannah's regret.
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Okay this is my view: a child (Henry by the story) was abused and neglected by his parents his whole life, he never knew love. he grows up and still doesn't understand the concept of love and emotion. he doesn't know what it is. so he sees a girl, kidnaps her, & rapes her because he wants to feel love. he wants to know what it is. then he realizes what he's done and commits suicide. Hannah's regret's is because his mother's name was Hannah, and if she abused him like said in the story, then he thought of himself as a mistake and regrets giving birth to him. Just my thoughts.
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The song is about a boy, not a girl.
I would say the song is about a boy who is abused and invisible, when he becomes an adult he knows nothing about or human connection so he rapes a girl who thought of him as an outsider, knowing that he tresspassed he commits suicide thinking the kerosene would have the same affect on him as it did on his alchohol. -
It's about a boy who's never experienced love and then feels it for a girl but he beats her and ties her up and then she commits suicide than he's so sad he commits suicide by bathing in kerosine and lighting it on fire. The song is based off a book called East of Eden.
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I think this song is about a child was neglected and abused as a child and eventually became a psychopath. He raped a woman (Hannah) and she bore him a child, who was Hannah's regret. Eventually, the 'monster' realizes his mistake and the pain he caused everyone and he kills himself, via burning himself alive in a bathtub.
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okay so for all of you guys that think this is about rape, its actually focused on the kids life, not the rape, yus there is a line about rape. but the storyline is the kids life.
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When this boy was little he wasn't loved and so he didn't feel anything. As a result of this he wanted to feel something so he became violent. Proceeding to say that he feels something when he touches others. Meg and Dia said that they use the word monster because in the book this is based on you become a monster if you have no love in your life. Now he's wondering how he should feel. Then he abuses this girl and steals her virginity but realizes that this is hurting her when he thought it was love because he never knew what love was. And now everyone is talking about how Hannah had this kid and the kid hears all this and knows that he/she is Hannah's regrets. Now the boy kills himself after seeing that what he did wasn't love by bathing in kerosene and lighting it on fire which makes the bathtub full of glow flies (fire).
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I feel the song was a story that was being sung about the past and related what was currently happening.
"His little whispers.
Love Me. Love Me.
That's all I ask for.
Love Me. Love Me."
So he probably physically hit her or is about to. Usually people might say they're sorry after it and he feels insecure about this and is making sure that he is loved. He know what he has done is wrong so he wants to make sure no feelings were changed.
"He battered his tiny fists to feel something.
Wondered what it's like to touch and feel something."
He cannot interpret the feeling of love so he abuses her and feels the emotion of sorrow. He wants to feel her love him but she doesn't there for he feels her fear and is angered by this there for he was frustrated and hit her.
"Monster.
How should I feel?
Creatures lie here.
Looking through the window..."
She is now expressing how she feels in the song. She calls him a monster and she sees he is confused by her emotions. So she wonders how she should be feeling and if she should love him wondering if she is feeling incorrectly. She is lying down and he is watching her she is calling herself a creature and he is looking at her.
"That night he caged her.
Bruised and broke her.
He struggled closer.
Then he stole her."
So she feels trapped, he is analyzing her and she cannot handle the the attention so there for she feels "caged". He obviously forced himself apon her and he broke her emotionally. She snapped and probebly gave up the fight. He stole her virginity and she feels like an item that was stolen.
"Violet wrists and then her ankles.
Silent Pain.
Then he slowly saw their nightmares were his dreams."
He tied her probably and she is in pain. She feels to small and to little f herself to complain about this so she suffers in silence. He likes power, so he feels powerful when she is to scared to do anything. So slowly he realizes when she is scared and in pain that is what he'd been dreaming for, that is his misinterpretation of love.
"Monster.
How should I feel?
Creatures lie here.
Looking through the windows."
She feels that he is a monster and now that he is done with her he looks at her battered complexion. He feels sorry for what he has done but like the feeling when he does it.
"I will.
Hear their voices.
I'm a glass child.
I am Hannah's regrets."
She listens to someone maybe at school or commercials on tv about rape and abuse. When she speaks of her self as a "glass child" she is emotionally weak. She feels she isnt very powerful so she is as delicate as glass. She regrets what she lets him do or perhaps she is ashamed that she was raped and feels her mother regrets having her.
"Monster.
How should I feel?
Turn the sheets down.
Murder ears with pillow lace."
She still wonders what is wrong with her. She lies naked in front of him and wishes she was covered with the bed sheets. She knows he doesn't want to hear what she has to say so his ears are dead to her.
"There's bath tubs.
Full of glow flies.
Bathe in kerosene.
Their words tattooed in his veins. "
She wants to take a bath to wash what has been done away. She wants to burn away the pain she wants to burn her past and what happened. So she is covered with kerosene. Her last words is all he has to remember of her after she kills herself. Burning away what happened in her eyes. -
While it's true that they did write a story about this song (the one that they posted on their blog with Henry and whatnot), they actually based the song on a Cathy Ames from Steinbeck's book, East of Eden.
A man named Mr. Edwards is and unemotional pimp who happens to give his one shot of emotion to a girl named Cathy Ames (one of his girls), who is pessimistic (she thinks that there is only bad in the world, and surrenders to it) and evil. She is not able to return his feelings and makes his life miserable with her restlessness immorality. He wants to get rid of her, so he takes her to the countryside and beats her (almost to death) and leaves her to die.
"Meg and Dia have stated in interviews that many of their songs are influenced by literature, and that it has had a big influence on their lives.[5][24] Many of their songs are based on books: "Monster" was based on the Cathy Ames character in East of Eden by John Steinbeck..."
from wikipedia
it also states that it's based on East of Eden on the label's website -
This song is about a little boy named Henry, who has a mother and father who call him Monster and don't care for him. As a result, the little boy grows up without ever knowing emotion, and meets a girl on a street. He wants to talk to her, but she turns away, and 'Monster' gets angry and abuses her, by beating her and raping her.
Then Monster kills himself by pouring into the bath tub kerosene and other flammable liquid. Glow flies is in actual fact fire, so basically he bathes in fire, killing himself.
This song is deeply emotional, and significant, cunning too, as it hides the true plot behind a fantastic tune and wonderful singing voice. -
Does anybody know the name of the book dia got this from?
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the song is about a boy named henry, his mother and father abuses him. he doesnt know what love feels like. so hes walking and attempts to talk to a girl, she turns away from him because shes nervous. he grabs her and holds her down and rapes her and hits her. then he goes home, opens the windows and turns on the lights. fireflies flow in. he turns on the bath water and puts in kerosene where he kills himself. the end.
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So a lot of people are trying to guess what this song is about and so here is the answer to your guesses. When this boy was little he wasn't loved and so he didnt feel anything. As a result of this he wanted to feel something so he became violent. Proceeding to say that he feels something when he touches others. Meg and Dia said that they use the word monster because in the book this is based on you become a monster if you have no love in your life. Now hes wondering how he should feel. Then he abuses this girl and steals her virginity but realizes that this is hurting her when he thought it was love because he never knew what love was. And now everyone is talking about how Hannah had this kid and the kid hears all this and knows that he/she is Hannah's regrets. Now the boy kills himself after seeing that what he did wasn't love by bathing in kerosene and lighting it on fire which makes the bathtub full of glow flies (fire).
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I believe it's about a six year old little boy who had a drunken father and his mother had been raped when she was fourteen, causing her to regret having him. Then, the boy gets all reclusive twenty years later. He finds a girl and then, he finally feels love. But then, after he feels what he longed for for the first time, she lets him down, causing him to rape her. He realizes he had turned out like his dad, so he bathes in kerosene and sets it on fire, committing suicide. Sad song, but you gotta love it.
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I think this song is about a family that seemed perfect, they went to church and he went to school. They had a little boy and his mom was abused by his dad and she was happy when the attention was turned off her so she joined in on hurting him to keep him off of her. After they were done with him or the sun went down they would lock him in his room alone because he was scared of the dark. They were probably a younger couple but were alcoholics. When they were drunk they would call him a monster and he heard it so often that he began to believe it. Twenty years later he thought that what he grew up with was love and when he was in college he found a girl he liked and he loved her as he was taught. He was hard and rough, he raped her cause he didn't know any different. {That night he caged her. Bruised and broke her. He struggled closer. Then he stole her. Violet wrists and then her ankles. Silent Pain.} But deep down he felt what he did was wrong. {Then he slowly saw their nightmares were his dreams} He couldn't escape what he did. He tried to block out the memory of her screams with his pillow case, but she was in pain even in his dreams. {Turn the sheets down. Murder ears with pillow lace} So he broke his lamps, poured the kerosene into his bathtub and committed suicide. He died thinking he was a monster. {Their words tattooed in his veins.} He said he was a glass child because he wasn't seen except when he was looked for. Like glass. He was Hannah's regrets because she realized what was being done to her by her husband was being done to her son by her and if she had never had the child she could of spared herself pain.
{song lyrics}
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