| Emmy the Great – A Woman, A Woman, A Century Of Sleep Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It sounds a bit like a lonely, crazy-bored housewife going mad in her house and watching the plants grow. She definitely doesn't sound happy with her life, even if she is a bit obsessive about things in it. | |
| The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I also don't think that William is Isaiah, he seemed pretty definitely dead, beaten to death then burnt? Surely unsurvivable. It'd also make the Rake a bit old, and perhaps past the age of rakish activities. Then again, he was married at 21, so maybe not. Originally thought it was the Rake's children suddenly appear and haunt him just as he's about to rape Margaret (they were his 'hazards of love' as he just wanted lots of sex, no babies), and he subsequently goes insane and kills himself, or at least is incapacitated so that William is able to break in and rescue her. But now... actually, the idea that William fights him and kills him, then he gets to spend all eternity as a ghost in the company of his vengeful children... ooh. I think that would be a worse fate. Creepy, creepy use of a children's choir, all very discordant and sinister, and are those squeaking taps on Dawn's verse? *shiver* |
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| The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It seems like they had nowhere else to go. Can't go back to the Taiga as William's mother will find some way to dispose of Margaret, as we've already seen, Margaret doesn't appear to have any family to go back to either, not with her strange half-demon lover. So they realise that the only way they can be together and not bothered by any of the hazards of love... is to drown and haunt the river as happily married ghosts. :( Incredible downer ending, but it does make a lot of sense. But why didn't William THINK of his bargain with the river before trying to cross with Margaret? I can't imagine him willingly putting her in danger like that, unless they had to get in the boat quickly and cast off because the Rake was chasing them. It just seems like a very strange thing to do. Maybe he'd forgotten, being so carried away by excitement for seeing Margaret again. |
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| The Decemberists – A Bower Scene Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this gives some insight into Margaret's background. All conjecture, but: Margaret lives in a bower with these 14 other women who just lie around bored with not a great deal to do. I think this suggests that Margaret is an orphan herself; otherwise, why is she not living with her family? That also explains the Sister, who I think is a nun rather than Margaret's own sister (calling her 'daughter'?) and she is in charge of looking after the girls. So they're all sitting about being patient waiting to be married, and Margaret, who has already had sex, is rolling her eyes a bit at their naivety and can't be content just sitting about any more. It explains why Margaret is able to take off alone and go and look for William. If this is the case, interesting that they're both orphans, or abandoned children, and they end up leaving their own child an orphan. Oh, the angst. |
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