Please Don't Judas Me

@Zanary I' d like to know your opinion about the following:. WHAT'S YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE REFRAIN "PLEASE DON'T JUDAS ME''' ? Is that just similar, synonymous to PLEASE DON'T BETRAY ME as the very name of Judas is the personification of betrayal in western culture. Or does this phrase mean DON'T YOU LOOK AFTER ME THROUGH THE PEEPHOLE- don't you spy, just trust me. Several days ago I had a conversation with a friend of mine. She recalled the diary she had written being a teenager. Though she never showed it to anybody and never wanted it to be seen by anyone else, once the girl discovered to her dissatisfaction from remarks and questions of her mother that the latter had found it and had read it. In this case mother violated her daughter's privacy demonstrating lack of trust, treating her daughter as if she were an irresponsible child to be kept under her total control. It seems to me that in this case the very lack of mother's trust leading to violation of her daughter's privacy by watching her secrets through the peephole of her diary is a kind of betrayal. SO THE DISTRUST AS BETRAYAL, DISTRUST LEADING TO BETRAYAL. Is that what Mr McCafferty meant while writing lyrics for this song?

@Дмитр I don't know that I got the specific meaning you posted, because it seems to be more of a "don't prejudge me", as that is a betrayal all by itself. The song certainly lists other conditions-manipulation, annihilation, and so on- but I always got the feeling that the song was taking place as a relationship was going from casual to more involved...and the narration came from a point of a painful, wary history.<br /> <br /> Where your friend is involved, it's a double-edged sword for the parent and the child alike. The more grown a child gets, the more freedom they want...but their activities can also lead to more danger, for which the parent is still needing to be aware. I'm totally on the fence, here, because children NEED their parents to be able to look out for them, even (especially?) in adolescence...but privacy needs to have its own rules as well.

@Zanary I believe he is asking or saying, don't betray me.