Here on these cliffs of Dover
So high you can't see over
And while your head is spinning
Hold tight, it's just beginning

You come from parents wanton
A childhood rough and rotten
I come from wealth and beauty
Untouched by work or duty

And oh, my love, my love
And oh, my love, my love
We both go down together

I found you, a tattooed tramp
A dirty daughter from the labor camps
I laid you down on the grass of a clearing
You wept but your soul was willing

And oh, my love, my love
And oh, my love, my love
We both go down together

And my parents will never consent to this love
But I hold your hand

Meet me on my vast veranda
My sweet, untouched Miranda
And while the seagulls are crying
We fall but our souls are flying

And oh, my love, my love
And oh, my love, my love
And oh, my love, oh my love
And oh, my love, my love
We both go down together


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    I love this song but it is clearly a parody of bourgeois sentimentality. It is about a rape followed by a murder-suicide.

    "I laid you down on the grass of a clearing You wept but your soul was willing"

    You wept but your soul was willing? Really?

    I'm not sure how that can be interpreted as anything other than a rape, even though the song is disguised as a romantic tragedy.

    It is clearly sung by a classic "unreliable narrator."

    muldrakeon January 09, 2014   Link

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