I've never known what the lyrics to this song were

[mrs_ajax]

And when his tiny head

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[happyfrogg]

VERY sad and creepy.

[mrs_ajax]

i know, right? regret is frightening, sometimes.

[kiwisc]

now that she "has done what she was born to do"? um, excuse me?

[mrs_ajax]

@kiwisc: I was interpreting that biologically, in that all (non-genetically-modified) biological organisms are genetically designed to reproduce. I base this on the following stanza, where the biological order ("sperm swims for the egg," an organic, unconscious process) is juxtaposed with the social order ("the finger for the ring," a conscious, social process). I think the correlation of the two within a discourse of inevitability is what is so disturbing to me. Regret becomes the bringing to consciousness of the two orders, biological and social, and their harmonies and disharmonies