Beyond poor
Beyond ostracized
Destined to be obscured
Beyond right in your offset eyes

On dominus ground
If what I say isn't true
I do it to reason with you
Kiss and no tell
The police down at the motel

I'm aware, I see
Yet somewhere as you reach down
I'm afraid you'll want me to go without

I'm aware, I see; yes, I do
Yet somewhere as you reach down
I'm afraid you'll want me to go without
To return what I've given out

Beyond poor
Beyond ostracized
Destined to be obscured
Beyond right in your husband's eyes
Does he bow when you're around?

What I say isn't true
But I do it to reason with you
Kiss and no tell
The last man in was the first to take the vow

I'm aware, I see; yes, I do
Yet somewhere as you reach down
I'm afraid you'll want me to go without

I'm aware, I see; yes, I do
Yet somewhere as you reach down
I'm afraid you'll want me to go without
Return what I've given out


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    My Interpretation

    Let me begin by saying this song is amazing. Darly Palumbo is a poetic genius for me.

    I interpret this song to mean there's a woman, who could either be a hooker (beyond poor, beyond ostrasized) or she's having an affair. She does it because she thinks she's 'healing' the men she's with (black nurse, where 'black' implies darkness), although she's obtaining benefit at the same time (she's the one on 'dominus ground').

    On some ocassion it ended badly when she may have either gotten caught or someone beat her up (police down at the motel). So she's loved several men by now or had numerous loves. She treats them all as if they were her husbands, but she may not actually have one, or he's irrelevant (Beyond right in your husband's eyes... what I say isn't true). Daryl is able to read into her by her behaviour (Does he bow when you're around?... I'm aware, I see, yes I do).

    She's ended up devoting herself to whoever pays her the most (kiss and no tell, the last man in was the first to take the vow). Daryl finds it disgusting that she's had a history of relationships without devotion but has just landed herself another man who's taken the vow without knowing her past.

    The act of 'reaching down' could be interpreted to either be a physical sexual act, or the act of entering his psyche. I think it's the former because she is too shallow for the latter. She gives him some kind of healing through sex, although, he knows she will never love him purely, (I'm afraid you'll want me to go without), he never realised that until it was too late that he was not her only lover, hence the bitterness (Return what I've given out).

    OT82on October 16, 2012   Link

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