The document analyzes lyrics from the song "White Lips, Pale Face" and discusses possible meanings and interpretations. It suggests that references to "snowflakes" and the girl's "innocence and youth" indicate she is taking drugs. Her struggle to pay rent and spending nights with "strange men" imply she works as a prostitute. The lyrics describe how her drug addiction and difficult life have taken a toll on her physically and emotionally over time.

1. LYRIC ANALYSIS

2. “WHITE LIPS, PALE FACE
BREATHING IN SNOW FLAKES
BURNT LUNGS, SOUR TASTE”
I believe that the ‘snowflakes’ are symbolic of the girl in the music video
taking drugs.
The language used also represents her innocence and youth- it makes it
seem to the audience that she doesn’t know how bad the drugs actually
are for her.
‘Breathing in snowflakes’ can be taken literally as well, as in the music
video the main girl seems to be a prostitute so she could literally be
standing outside in the snow breathing in snowflakes.

3. “LIGHTS GONE DAYS END”
While it means the days has ended, it could also mean that all her days
have become nights. There is no more light, e.g. no happiness, no hope
in her life as she spends all her time doing drugs.
It could also refer to the lights in her house. Hence the next line “Struggling
to pay rent”.
“STRUGGLING TO PAY RENT
LONG NIGHTS, STRANGE MEN.”
The girl portrayed in the music video seems to be very independent and not
very wealthy, so she most likely struggles to pay her rent and bills.
She also probably spends most of her money on drugs such as
cocaine.
Her living like this, forces her to be a prostitute and uses it as a way to
survive in her life, selling sex to ‘strange’ men. Her nights are long and
tiring.

4. “AND THEY SAY, SHE’S IN THE CLASS A TEAM”
The class A team is a metaphor- the main character in the music video is
using class A drugs.
Class A drugs are controlled by the UK Misuse of Drugs Act.
The “they say” portrays that people talk about her behind her back and
look down on her.
“STUCK IN HER DAYDREAM, BEEN THIS WAY
SINCE 18”
She has no prospects- she’s going to be like this forever. she tries to
escape her harsh reality by trying to daydream about how things are
going to get better, but we all know that its not.
This line also refers to her drug addiction- she has been stuck in her trip
since she was eighteen years old.

5. “BUT LATELY, HER FACE SEEMS SLOWLY SINKING,
WASTING CRUMBLING LIKE PASTRIES”
She’s been able to put up with her harsh reality for a long time but it is now
slowly hitting her and she can no longer put up with it. She hates what
she has to do to survive and she can’t deal with it anymore.
Pastries crumble as they are fragile and delicate, this is a metaphor for her
as she is insecure and feels fragile.
She has become frail in her body and mind from the drugs that she is
addicted too. Her face has also become white and pale from all the
drugs that she has been taking. Because white connotes purity is
shows her innocence.

6. “AND THEY SCREAM THE WORST THING IN LIFE
COMES FREE TO US”
By ‘they’ the writer means the general knowledge of the people.
This means that we get the worst things in life for free. Ed is interpreting
that the worst thing in her life is not the drugs as she pays for them
herself willingly, but the fact that she is selling herself to men and they
are abusing her. But this is also ironic as she gets paid for this.
Another ironic thing about her being abused is that she has to actually pay
most or her earnings to her ‘pimp’ which is ironic as she is actually
paying someone to be abused.
This could also be an interpretation on her drug addiction as usually your
first does of coke comes for free a gift from your dealer as a tester etc.