The Sky Is a Poisonous Garden

This song is about beating addiction. Eleanor is the drug: "...I can feel from this side of the door, I can feel Eleanor"

Addiction is often a cycle where one fix is justified by the one before: "...He said don't bring tomorrow to justify tonight..."

Addiction can occupy a person's thoughts, to the point of obsession: "Eleanor trembles. Eleanor moans. Somehow, this body is someone she always has known..."

But in the end, he beats the addiction: "She said please don't go. Please don't go! And she cried and she died in his arms and he cried nevermore."

I think the tag line in the title and chorus is simply about being high: "The moon is full, the stars are bright and the sky is a poisonous garden tonight."

this song reminds me of the raven by edgar allen poe

I can't believe no one has posted anything on this!

But then...in comparison to say, certain bands like Dashboard Confessional and Jimmy Eat World, their overall popularity here isn't exactly that great...

This song is so powerful. It just pulsates with sexual energy. The lyrics are actually pretty self explanatory, but it's still an incredible song sung by an incredible woman. Speaking frankly and carnally about a sexual encounter, it's almost empowering for any woman to listen to (as long as they have the lyrics handy, that is). It's a great song to listen to and an even better one to drive under the night sky to.

Definitely one of my favourite all-timers.

I would think this is about a relationship which will be judged harshly -"They knew what they had would be young naked prey..." I'm pretty sure that the bit about dying at the end is the euphemistic sense -that is, to have an orgasm (Shakespeare used that one a lot and the French still call it "The little death", not someone actually dying, or the whole next morning wouldn't matter much, would it?

Just about one of the baddest song C. Blonde ever did/..

This is about a night spent together between a man and a woman. It starts with the man standing outside the woman's (Eleanor's) door, and he can feel this fever and her presence on the other side of the door. The fever is likely that feeling of sexual tension or overwhelming lust that heats one's body. The door could be a metaphor for the obstacle of tension between you and this person you're with, in which you're both trying to figure out whether the other person wants you and what to do next to move things along. He says, "Don't bring tomorrow to justify tonight." Clearly, he doesn't want this night to end. He wants time to slow so that he can stay with this woman longer. But what would tomorrow need to "justify?" Is what he's hoping will happen something he considers wrong or sinful? Is it simply fornication, or is it adultery?

She wants him to sip his tequila to give her more time for the spring that is this sexual tension to unwind, but she says she also wants to unlearn what she's learned. What has she learned that she wants to unlearn? Is she referring to what she was taught about fornication being wrong and sinful, or has he told her that he's married, and she wants to forget that she heard that so that she can proceed without guilt?

They knew that the next morning would find them naked prey to a world filled with poison and hate. So what is that poison and hate? Guilt and shame and self-loathing, perhaps?

Once the lust overcomes them, they lose control, and they feel like they are outside of time and space.

She feels this sense of oneness with him as if she has always known him and feels like she's in love with him, but maybe it's just that feeling of intimacy that she's hooked on because it's something lacking from her life. She asks him not to leave, and he answers, "Nevermore." Here Jeanette gives a nod to Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven, which is about a lover (Lenore - similar in name to the Eleanor in this song) who has either died or left him in some other way that feels permanent, leaving him in the agony of heartbreak. In that poem, he is told by the raven that he will see his love "nevermore." So what does the man in this song mean when he says "nevermore?" Is he saying he'll never leave, or is he saying he'll never see her again? All we can do is guess.

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