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Originally posted by HOD
I really love this album, it's amazing.
I have been thinking, is 'Holding on to Nothing' about her being afraid of what will happen if she loves her kids too much?
Because she's afraid that they will be taken away like her first pregnancy?
I thought it was about a lover when I first heard it but it actually makes sense if you think that she's singing this to her children.
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You're kind of close imo.
I feel like this song is about her relationship with her husband after the miscarriage.
When I read the lyrics, she's basically afraid of losing her husband like she lost her child.
"Take My Place" talks about losing her child, and lightly touches on the fact that her relationship became distant. She talks about her husband leaving her side.
She only has two emotional songs on this album and they are definitely related.
I get the feeling that after her miscarriage, her relationship halted, which is so normal after losing a child. A misscarriage is one thing, but giving birth to a still born is another.
I just get vibes that since she talks about losing him, and she says "once bitten" meaning she's already lost something, that she's expecting the worst to happen again when she thinks of him.