The evolution & deeper meaning (I hear) between the paralells of : “I Hate It Here” & “Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?”
When they found a better planet, only the gentle survived. I dreamed about it in the dark, the night I felt like I might die.
I was tame, I was gentle 'til the circus life made me mean.
The way I hear it personally speaking (though I’m going to use a non-first person speech) essentially saying it killed her. Only the gentle survive, and she is no longer tame nor gentle. While also saying that the circus life felt like she might die, so she dreamed for better for somewhere made for the gentle… but she never found it. So all she once was died, and was made as something new. But now this “new thing” couldn’t survive in a world apart from the circus, the dreamland for the gentle either.
