| Jesca Hoop – Tulip Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The cotton sword storming the hall may refer to fog, considering it cuts her sight to blindness. It also precedes the stanza describing her death, indicating that the atmosphere may have played a part in her death. I don't agree with the interpretation that he drowns his wife, however. Considering Ada refers to the water, post-mortem as her mercy, I believe she killed herself. The line about the red lead sinker probably relates to the husband blaming himself for driving her to such an act. Murder seems too odd, considering how happy Ada feels about her death and how her husband still refers to her as "my true love" even after the event. There is nothing earlier in the song to indicate he is deranged enough to hold such sentiments after a homicide. Nice research on the tulip mania... although I'm a bit more inclined to believe he uses the tulip to derive pigment for paints. "With a paler leaf and a broken petal, I'll paint the king and queen" may mean he was using herb based chroma to further his career as a court painter. |
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