| Richard Marx – Hazard Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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In the song Hazard, there is always a question about who killed Mary. I love this song and have been trying to figure it out for years. I have come to the conclusion that Richard killed Mary. I will tell you why. First, Richard is obviously an unreliable narrator. He paints himself as a wonderful and just misunderstood kid. But that's very odd. A whole town is not going to just start making up rumors and lies about a 7 year kid UNLESS he is actually doing some bad things. So Richard was a weird kid. He probably killed little animals and other conduct disorder things. And of course, he defends the sociopathic actions as being misunderstood. Now, let's talk about Mary. Richard makes a few comments that lead me to believe that he is not in any relationship with Mary. First, if you watch the videos, you know that Mary has a boyfriend. But not only that, Richard immediately makes the comment that no one understood what he felt for Mary. That also is a strange comment to make. He then makes the comment that no one cared until Mary died. Again, his comments are odd. Most people understand healthy love. Richard was not in love with Mary. Richard was obsessed with her. When people are unhealthily obsessed with people, they always comment that people don't understand. That is a very unhealthy outlook. So when Mary dies, immediately Richard defends himself by swearing. "I swear I left her by the river. I swear I left her safe and sound." Why would would he use such strong language immediately. Swearing is considered the ultimate promise, the ultimate truth. But searing right away other than just telling them he left her there implies guilt. "I think about my life gone by, how it's done me wrong." This is also conduct disorder related. Richard is no angel and he seems to be incapable of taking responsibility for his problems. He blames everything on everyone else, but he never says a word that implies he is a good person. This is really all we know about Richard, because he is of course going to make himself look innocent. "There's no escape for me this time, all of my rescues are gone." This lyric also implies guilt. An innocent person is not going to be questioned about a murder and immediately assume he can't win. Again, Richard is blaming everything on everyone else. His rescues are gone because he cannot rely upon his own sense of responsibility. Everything is everyone else's fault and rather than try to help himself, he relies on these "rescues" implying he can't do anything on his own. Again, everything is everyone's fault but him. So yeah, Richard killed Mary. No one understood his unhealthy obsession with her in which he never told us he loved it. That word is never mentioned. It was not love. And if he can't have her, nobody will. Mary and Richard are separate people that for some reason enjoyed walking along the river. And his constant mentioning of the river implies obsession because he connects Mary and his obsession. It's their setting. So in the end, he did leave her by river dead because he knew he would never be with her. So it made sense to connect to the river forever. So she died their setting. This is reminiscent of John Hinkley JR, the man who shot Ronald Reagan to impress Jodie Foster. Hinkley very often spoke of his "mutual" love with Jodie. However, he quit doing this and wondered why Jodie would not be with him. Their love, according to him, was amazing and more amazing than any other love in the entire world. Richard is a lot like Hinkley. He assumes his love is the greatest ever and so unique that no one understands him at all. So yeah, Richard killed Mary. |
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| Richard Marx – Hazard Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[BalisongAbraxas:28854] Okay this is silly with me commenting on a comment made 10 years ago but I just had to. It is not obvious that he did not kill her. If he killed her and the police asked him about it, he's not going to admit he killed her. He's going to make up an excuse and he is going to make it a big excuse. The very fact that he feels he has to SWEAR right away indicates that he did kill her. If someone questioned me, I would first tell them I didn't do it. But I wouldn't swear right away. Normally people only use the word "SWEAR" when they are lying and trying hard to get someone to believe them. Of course he is an unreliable narrator. He makes himself look like he is completely normal. A 7 year old boy is not going to be seen as weird by the community unless he really is weird. So he does things, and he blames the consequences on everyone else. There has to be a reason people are prejudice against him. Mary was not his girlfriend. "No one understood what I felt for Mary." That is a sociopathic stalker comment. If his comment is that he has a reciprocal love with Mary, then it doesn't make sense that no one understands it. Love is love. What Richard had was an unhealthy obsession with Mary and that sort of obsession is often lamented as not to be understood by other people. Richard killed her. |
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