#there's also a ton of circus and life/death imagery that I don't want to get into

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Lock and Safe Imagery in The Tortured Poets Department Album 🗝️🔒

So Long London

I stopped trying to make him laugh, stopped trying to drill the safe

Guilty as Sin?

I dream of cracking locks. I keep these longings locked in lowercase inside a vault

I Hate it Here

I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind, people need a key to get to, the only one is mine

Tortured Poets Department

Who else decodes you?

Fresh Out the Slammer

Years of labor, locks and ceilings in the shade of how he was feeling

He don't understand me

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There is a difference between these references and ones where she mentions cages and feeling locked up/trapped. These vault and safe cracking references feel like trying to get to know someone and being unable to reach that inner part of them.