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Jane. Lyrics

Welcome to the
The singer is welcoming the audience to her life, represented as a show

Show
Life is presented as a performance that the singer is inviting the audience to witness

Father Father the one that i run to
The singer turns to her father for support and guidance

tell my mother im running out of time
The singer is experiencing a sense of urgency or pressure that she needs to communicate to her mother

Brother brother who listens to me screaming
The singer's brother is the one who listens to her emotional outbursts and helps her vent

Ask my sister if she will be alright
The singer is showing concern for her sister's well-being and wants reassurance that she is okay

The secret sides of me
The singer has aspects of her personality that she keeps hidden

Are getting hard to see
Even the singer is having trouble recognizing these hidden aspects of herself

A secret silence from the words that i can hardly speak
The singer is struggling to communicate her feelings and keep them hidden at the same time

A little part of you
The audience is also implicated in this performance and the singer is asking them to understand her

A little part of me
The audience is also invited to share something of themselves with the singer

It dies it dies it dies
There is a sense of loss or death associated with this performance

Welcome to the show
The singer is again welcoming the audience to her life and her performance

Ooooo Ooooo and im giving up my lines
The singer is surrendering control of her performance to the audience

Needle needle the one that i comfort
The singer has a substance abuse problem and uses drugs as a coping mechanism

Bottle bottle the one thats on my side
Alcohol is another tool the singer uses to cope with her problems

Lightning lightning so much that i can't sleep
The singer's mind is racing with anxiety and she can't find peace

and ill light another smoke to try to get it off my mind
The singer turns to smoking as yet another coping mechanism

Yeah everyone is fake
The singer is expressing her disillusionment with the people around her

Yeah everyone is playing parts
The singer sees people as actors in a performance, not as their genuine selves

And we've all been dead from the start
There is a sense of fatalism and hopelessness associated with this performance, as if everyone is doomed to fail or suffer