| The Dear Hunter – Red Hands Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I might be completely off, but... I'm not so sure he knows she is cheating. He saw the other man in "Smiling Swine" and I think he began to wonder if she was cheating on him. Since then, the question has been eating at him and finally he explodes. He guesses (perhaps because of his mother) that Ms. Leading is a prostitute and has been playing him, so he yells at her and treats her like a prostitute. Then he stops himself and tells her to put her clothes back on. He feels ashamed for having treated her like that. This time, he takes a calmer approach and tells her that he doesn't know whether or not she is a prostitute and that he would probably have been paranoid no matter what. He also realizes because of this display of emotion that he is much more in love with her than he thought, and thus more vulnerable to getting hurt. This thought is what leads him down the path of breaking up with her. |
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| The Dear Hunter – Black Sandy Beaches Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The beach and bottles probably aren't literal. They just represent how the letters were thrown out and later turned up and were found by some unknown girl. In the beginning, the girl who finds the letters assumes that the dear hunter decided not to break up with Ms. Leading and threw the letters away, which is why "Oh how she smiles from vicarious love from the one he writes about She must have been so glad for him to throw it out". Later, she finds the second letter which is streaked with tears and realizes that Ms. Leading did receive the letters. She wonders whether the tears were hers from reading or his from writing. At the end of the song, she feels bad for Ms. Leading, so she tries to convince herself that Ms. Leading is better off. However, she admits that that seems unlikely. Also, since I don't think anyone mentioned it, the letters she is reading are from the previous song "Dear Ms. Leading". |
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