| Morphine – Hanging On A Curtain Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Very big fan of Morphine here. After many years, i came to the conclusion that this lyric it's about the murder of a young girl and subsequent necrophilia. Yeah it's dark. But that's morphine and it doesn't give a damn about any "moral superficiality" (in the song that comes right after this one in the album it says "right or wrong, to me is the same thing...", just as an example, there are references to this sort of mentality in various tracks). Look: "Hangin' on a curtain" someone which commited suicide or, in this case, was murdered by hanging. "Swingin' like a clock" Like old pendulum clocks, the dead body swings after the agony of dying and keeps swinging until it returns to inertia upon the consequent relaxation of death. "Big hand on the seven, the little hand on top" it refers to the time, little hand was at 12h and big hand at 35min. Probably a bit past midnight (12:35am), the "darkest hour" in folklore and literature. "You said you like to hear me talk, you told me not to stop" Here is the mind of a psychopath in action, creating a twisted history between him and the victim, and that ends up cascading to reality, in the case, end up doing what he does in the song. "Little red feet with big blue toes" here he talks about the feet of a kid, still colored by blood, but already with blue toes, which are extremities of the body and get colder faster. "Let me put my hands inside your clothes" here the deturpated fantasy continues, the man in the music can finally do what he wants with the body, now dead. "Cute buttons like pointy little teeth" here its a reference to the pointy and round nipples of young girls which already entered adolescence, he has taken the cloths off. "Oh, don't bite please" here is a sarcasm of the psychopath in question, since the kid is dead and can't fight back. Maybe, the girl was reluctant in the first place and he had to kill her. Before the track finishes you can hear at the background the voice of an adolescent girl, this reinforces my theory about this song and the possibility that the murder was not what the man wanted to begin with, because the voice is clearly very sweet and intimate, so much probably he was close family with the victim, which did not "collaborated" with his perverted delusions. The vocal by Mark in this song has a tone that reminds someone who unfortunately lost someone he loves, and it's a bit sad, but also a bit satisfied... |
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