| The Mountain Goats – Scotch Grove Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I think we have to look at the line "you were bluebeard, bluebeard's wife" to really understand the gist of this song. The narrator mentions a party that the couple is coming home from. They are silent and it's not a good silence. The narrator is obviously not wanting to talk about something(possibly that was brought up at the party) and they are wishing to be "washed away" Pretty extreme. And then the other person starts doing something that the narrator hates. Which shows a disregard for the narrators feelings. So Bluebeard was the bad guy in the fable and Bluebeard's wife while a victim was also a transgressor having broken her word about not looking into the locked room. So the narrator is in one breath acknowledging that the other person in the car is a victim but also implying that they are also the villain. Kind of reminds me of when you've asked your SO not to bring up a painful topic and they keep poking at the subject anyway. And maybe you should talk about it but you don't want to and they won't respect that. That's the idea that I get from this song. |
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