Talk:君はできない子 (Kimi wa Dekinai Ko)/@comment-26157002-20180403022003

This is literally gaslighting: the song. Gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse, where you make the person feel worthless, but at the same time, insist that they couldn't survive without you. For example, someone could say "you can't do anything right! This is why you need me, you idiot" or "if you would have listened to me, that wouldn't have happened!".

The whole situation where the mom is insulting the kid, but at the same time saying "I'll protect you" is exactly that. Gaslighting. I don't think there's really a big metaphor in this one, for once. I think it's just straight up emotional abuse, probably the parent taking out their own problems and aggression, and driving the kid to suicide.

Perhaps the end, where they refer to themselves as a kid, is because they also were gaslit by their parents as a kid. The cycle of abuse continuing to the kid in the song.