My perspective on strangers by ethel cain part 1
Tw : cannibalism, murder, trauma, violence
But God is telling you and I that there is death, for all of us
But then we find that the scriptures also tell us
That we have a great promise, that there is a better place
For those who believe in the lord Jesus Christ
We hear a pastor giving a sermon on the tv ( likely ethel 's dead father)
In your basement, I grow cold
Thinking back to what I was always told
"Don't talk to strangers or you might fall in love"
Freezer bride, your sweet divine
You devour like smoked bovine hide
How funny, I never considered myself tough
Cain speaks about her body rotting away in Isaiah's ( her boyfriend's) basement , hidden in a freezer
How the frigid temperatures have hardened her even though she was quite a fragile person, bending over backwards for others when she was alive
Here we also she her considering Isaiah a 'stranger', referencing that she was likely kidnapped instead of her willing going with him as she had previously stated
( ethel is shown to be an unreliable character)
I tried to be good, am I no good?
Am I no good? Am I no good?
With my memory restricted to a Polaroid in evidence
I just wanted to be yours, can I be yours?
Can I be yours? Just tell me I'm yours
If I'm turning in your stomach and I'm making you feel sick
These para shows ethel's weak and people pleasing nature . How even after death, she cannot escape her desire to please others even if it costs her everything.
Since her while body is consumed. There is nothing left of her except for the evidence collected by the police . This likely foreshadowing that she might never be found again, no one will no what truely happened to her.
Here we see her concerned whether Isaiah was getting sick from consuming her flesh
Ironically this is the first time ethel was truly able to fight back, hurt the one who hurts her .
Perhaps its revenge is a twisted way.