"As mammouths depart" is a brilliant metaphor describing things that once seemed so important, leaving his life and Ms. Leading's life. It beautifully contrasts the flames which seem like small little parts of life until they start large fires.
On a smaller, more immediate definition of the fire and the flame in this song, however I wonder if he fears he is doomed to his father's fate consorting with prostitutes and he can't escape his destiny.
Pure guesses, but just thinking Act III might involve finding out that the pimp/priest was the one intercepting Ms. Leading's letters. The Dear Hunter will confront him about it and they will get into a violent struggle, which The Dear Hunter will lose. There will then be a song about his shame at his own inaddequacy and he will debate calling the cops on the pimp/priest. He wants to do this TO the priest, but fears for the future of all the prostitutes who make their living becasue of him such as his mother and Ms. Leading. I think he will end up calling the cops though.
The time line is a little confusing because that one song was entitled 1878, but in Smiling Swine he mentions a car. Perhaps prostitution isn't even illegal whenever and wherever the Dear Hunter lives, merely speculating.
"As mammouths depart" is a brilliant metaphor describing things that once seemed so important, leaving his life and Ms. Leading's life. It beautifully contrasts the flames which seem like small little parts of life until they start large fires.
On a smaller, more immediate definition of the fire and the flame in this song, however I wonder if he fears he is doomed to his father's fate consorting with prostitutes and he can't escape his destiny.
Pure guesses, but just thinking Act III might involve finding out that the pimp/priest was the one intercepting Ms. Leading's letters. The Dear Hunter will confront him about it and they will get into a violent struggle, which The Dear Hunter will lose. There will then be a song about his shame at his own inaddequacy and he will debate calling the cops on the pimp/priest. He wants to do this TO the priest, but fears for the future of all the prostitutes who make their living becasue of him such as his mother and Ms. Leading. I think he will end up calling the cops though.
The time line is a little confusing because that one song was entitled 1878, but in Smiling Swine he mentions a car. Perhaps prostitution isn't even illegal whenever and wherever the Dear Hunter lives, merely speculating.