I may be way out of line here, it could be my twisted imagination...
But the line about "The newspapers said that the girl had been strangled to death and also molested" always subtly hints to me that it wasn't necessarily the murderer that did the molesting.
And that three men in the mountains with bottles of bourbon may just have had another reason for not reporting the crime immediately, but wait for three days to get their story straight.
For a small town, the newspapers could have only got their "official" story
It's only after the story broke in the paper is the young man arrested. Did he turn himself in?
And it's the wife of the one of the men that tells us "When he holds me now I'm pretending
I feel like I'm frozen inside".
She may know his dark secret.
As I say, I could be way off, but this song always has a dark edge to me. Something even more sinister than the obvious.
I may be way out of line here, it could be my twisted imagination... But the line about "The newspapers said that the girl had been strangled to death and also molested" always subtly hints to me that it wasn't necessarily the murderer that did the molesting.
And that three men in the mountains with bottles of bourbon may just have had another reason for not reporting the crime immediately, but wait for three days to get their story straight. For a small town, the newspapers could have only got their "official" story It's only after the story broke in the paper is the young man arrested. Did he turn himself in? And it's the wife of the one of the men that tells us "When he holds me now I'm pretending I feel like I'm frozen inside". She may know his dark secret.
As I say, I could be way off, but this song always has a dark edge to me. Something even more sinister than the obvious.
Loved the film Jindabyne too by the way.