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Jun 15th 2014!⃝I don't think, that the song is about a girl's relationship. Not so simple.
Katy Perry was under contract with a record company at first, who wanted to control her, form her and opress her.
"She is a pyramid -
But with him (metaphor for the record company) she's just a grain of sand"
Under contract she should be like all the others. She shouldn't be a special. The company tried to get her a little bit like singer A and a little bit like band B.
"But he's scared of the light that's inside of her -
So he keeps her in the dark"
The old record company knew about her potential but they didn't want her to blossom herself. They knew that she would be a big star with an contract with someone else who could give her place to develop.
"Yeah, she used to rule the world, oh"
Katy Perry also is talking about her biggest wish is sing on stage and see all the people smile. Her intention to be a singer wasn't the money. It is the people.
"She was unstoppable" - Her dreams were big and maybe a little childish in the dimensions, but she had big plans for her career. After beeing under contract with the first record company she was stopped immediately.
"Do you know that there's a way out" - an employee from the company wanted to help her, stole all her documents and sent them to another record company. She was able to cancel the old contract and get under contract with the new company where she is today.
"Yeah, I let him rule my world, my world, oh yeah" - The whole song she was telling the story in third person. But at the end she applied all the lines on herself. It's her story.
I think she comes to terms with her critically experience in music industries with "Pearl".
(English isn't my native language. I hope you're able to understand me)
