Whispering
Hear the ghosts in the moonlight
Sorrow doing a new dance
Through their bone, through their skin

Listening
To the souls in the fool's night
Fumbling mutely with their rude hands
And there's heartache without end

See the father bent in grief
The mother dressed in mourning
Sister crumbles, and the neighbors grumble
The preacher issues warnings

History
Little miss didn't do right
Went and ruined all the true plans
Such a shame, such a sin

Mystery
Home alone on a school night
Harvest moon over the blue land
Summer longing on the wind

Had a sweetheart on his knees
So faithful and adoring
And he touched me and I let him love me.
So let that be my story

Listening
For the hope, for the new life
Something beautiful, a new chance
Hear it's whispering
There again



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    this song is wendla forshadowing her death from abortion. See the father bent in grief The mother dressed in mourning Sister crumbles, and the neighbors grumble The preacher issues warnings

    It's also about gossip and how her mother made her get her fateful abortion despite the risks because of what people would think if she had a baby at 15. I'm not sure about the eve refrence, i think it's more about how she (wendla) did wrong in societies eyes.

    emzie8989on October 09, 2008   Link

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