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The Guardian - AU
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Sian Cain

Missy Higgins: ‘Some people thought that line in The Special Two was about women syncing periods’

Missy Higgins with long hair and bangs, wearing a maroon velvet jacket and a floral shirt, standing in a corner with wood-panelled walls behind her, with a beam of light falling across the wall behind her.
‘I felt like if I didn’t come up with any more music, I wasn’t going to be able to respect myself any more’: Missy Higgins. Photograph: Jackson Gallagher/The Guardian

What’s the most memorable, wrong explanation that you’ve heard for the meaning behind one of your songs?

Some people thought that the line “we’ll bleed together” in my song The Special Two was about two women syncing periods. I always thought that was a quite funny and very, very literal metaphor. And probably the first time somebody had written a song about syncing periods.

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