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“Auburn and Ivory” broadcasts an oppressive, mesmerizing sound. Could this song be about child abuse? The language seems forced, running loops, refusing itself to an accessible interpretation; the morbid imagery of her “holding her bones by the fire” – with the color coding suggesting she is in fact “sacrific[ing]” herself to the flames, not any letter she wrote – stands in uncanny contrast to the picture of childhood innocence, drawn in the refrain through the coupling of “pony tails” and “ivory”.