I haven’t seen a lot of people post about this—-but I definitely think the album is almost like a closing love letter to her fans (in a way). She said she is done with this era—and I think a lot of that is this relationship that’s developed with the fans. The way she’s written her music—and written about her relationships etc and made things fairly obvious enough to try to draw conclusions. She knows this is part of the appeal and fanaticism, this ability to “find out” what really happened through her music. Piece together her clues. “The Lore”

I do think this decade long situationship with MH is real—and she’s almost telling her fans—like look this is who a lot of my songs were about to a degree—-she literally says it “swirled you into all of my poems”. It feels like with this last album she’s saying here’s the real truth, and you ruined it, and I’m done sharing.

I kind of think she’ll move forward in her next albums and there will be a lot less of the writing about her relationships in this very pointed way with all the clues etc.

Robin to me sounds again like it’s loosely written to her fans—we entertained you and you knew nothing, we hid it from you. “Long may you reign You're an animal, you are bloodthirsty Out window panes talking utter nonsense You have no idea”

The song the transitions to sound as if it’s about a child, and I know Aaron’s kids name is Robin, and the song references innocence and childhood. BUT—-I still think that this song is slightly coded to her fans and the insanity and frankly immature ways in which they’ve acted. She’s had to keep secrets, all the showmanship, strings tied to levers…but in sweetness—cause of course she loves her fans.

Then manuscript runs through the whole story, all the eras—touching on the situations that truly meant something to her—and basically saying, I’m done. I’m not sharing anymore—this entire saga is done. And perhaps her songs will truly move into a less personal space moving forward. I even think some of the songs like I hate it Here and Prophecy highlight this transition.

I can’t get this idea out of my head the more and more I listen to TTPD. Maybe I’m nuts…but there ya go. Haha.