But what if I'm a mermaid
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Got on a Tori Amos kick the  other night. Fell down a rabbit hole and
learned  that she  has a  strong, longstanding  friendship with  Neil
Gaiman, and has mentioned him in a lot of songs.

Listened to  Silent All These  Years, which  is a *great*  track, and
this part, as it always does, leapt out at me:

> So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts
> What's so amazing about really deep thoughts?
> Boy, you best pray that I bleed real soon

genius.com asserts that  the final line is a threatening  sort of way
to tell "Boy" that he best pray  she get her period soon, which makes
complete,  total, and  utter  since,  and which  is  such an  obvious
interpretation, and one  which I never made, being a  dude who didn't
grow up around girls.

Given  the juxtaposition  of *deep  thoughts* and  being silent,  and
finding one's  voice, I always thought  of *bleed* in the  sense of a
pouring  out  of  emotions,  a  laying bare  of  one's  most  private
thoughts.

As in, "writing is easy. Just sit at the typewriter and bleed."