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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Half Jack (page 1/ 4) ------ performed by The Dresden Dolls This is what i've come to interpret it as. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/31/09 This song makes me think about my drug addiction. jack is the 'addict' part of my personality and i just with i could rid myself of him. sacrificing my body to get the 'jack' part out would be going to rehab. Heres a morbid interpretation no ones gone for | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/20/09 When I first heard this song I thought it was the musings of the product of a rape, especially If you've seen the video, because its a little girl trying to help an older woman (in the past) from being accosted by "jack" who isn't a man but a monster. It really makes me believe this when she says "But I'd sacrafice my body, If It meant I'd get the jack part out" In the video her 'mom' is killing herself and the girl is killing jack. But, I saw the dedication to her father that Amanda wrote on their site. Half Jack | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/18/09 Guys... why can't it be about both? Why can't she be talking about both the father aspect and the gender aspect in the same song with the same words? I think that's what this is. And really, it's not about what I think it's about what YOU think. dude... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/25/09 this songs cool. if jack is her father, then jill must be her mom. but jack might not be someone she wants around. she might not want that half of her so she does what she can to get it out. but, this song could also mean two personalities. eh. i just listen to it cause amanda's voice is cool sounding. .... | Reviewer: Skye~ | 1/7/09 How do you know that...? :\ This song CAN relate to a lot of people - depending on how you look at it. It's not that it doesn't have a meaning, it just has MULTIPLE meanings. I highly doubt Amanda wrote this song for no reason...;\... oi..erm. | Reviewer: kateh | 1/2/09 just in case nobody realised. her dad's name is jack. not that that necessarily means anything related to this song but it fits in with your stupid pointless theories. god dammit cant you just listen to it? its MEANT to not have a meaning makes it easier to relate to if everyone can. Half Jack. | Reviewer: kurea | 12/15/08 I don't see the entire thing about it being about her father. It just seems so obviously about either being transgendered or a hermaphrodite. Pills are hormones, corrective surgery and reference to biology are quite obvious. There are even references to stitches and destroying her body to get the jack part out. It just seems that she wants to get rid of that part of her body, no matter what. The whole 'half my mother's daughter' just seems to me that the opposite is half her father's son. And "I see my mother in my face but only when i travel" could just be about femininity, and when she travels no one is aware that she may have once been a different gender. The jack comes tumbling after part could be about her past catching up with her. The one thing that clinched it for me was "on 83rd he never found the magic words to change this fact:" As there is a sex change clinic on 83rd street in New York. Halfjack | Reviewer: Liz | 11/10/08 I've read a lot of reviews of this song. I think all the interpretations are plausible. Maybe Amanda and Brian meant it that way. People tend to see their own situations in music. For me, I saw a bad father-daughter relationship because that is what I am familiar with. I can see how it might mean different things to different people, but it's up to individuals to find their personal connection in the lyrics. Father, I suppose. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/8/08 Originally I thought it was about a woman discovering her sexuality, but now that I read the other reviews, the father idea does make sense. "and i'm so high not even you and all your love could bring me down" Love is normally a wonderful feeling, but in this line she acts like its bad. Makes me think that by love, she means sexual abuse. Half Jack | Reviewer: daikiraikimi | 11/7/08 I think it's definitely about an intersexed person. (A hermaphrodite- Someone with ambiguous sex organs.) The Jack is the male part and Jill is the female part. The parts about corrective surgery refer to the surgery that intersexual people are given at birth to try to make them male or female so they can fit into society, but it usually just makes things worse hence the 'gone wrong' part. The pills, I think, are the hormone pills that I.S. people are given throughout their lives from the time they are born so that they develop as their chosen gender. (I.S. people generally have too little hormones that causes many physical problems such as weak bones and a loss of stamina etc.) As for the part about a bad relationship with the parents/father, that also fits in with intersexuality because many I.S. children are abused and ignored by their family out of shame for what they are. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4