A Glow Lyrics
I'm not sure it's about homicide, to be honest.
Someone mentioned Black Sheep Boy, one of their more... prominent albums, it seems.
In many of their songs, you hear of how a woman still loves a stone, especially in the Black Sheep Boy album. How she cannot be with the man (singing) because she's still in love with the man that died long ago. She's in love with a head stone and the guy singing just really wants to be with her.
Because someone died and she has blood on her, doesn't necessarily mean she's the murderer. He's asking her to come into his arms because she's upset. I'm suspecting this might be the original place where the girl's love dies.
But that's just my take.
He's finally got her at the end of the album, after all those songs about his one-sided, frustrated love for her, and of her hopeless and unhappy love for the man that is a stone. She's light and alive because she's finally "killed" her feelings for the other man, and the black sheep boy is basically... reveling in the glory of it, and does so shamelessly by using language related to, well, murder!
Or, the murder imagery is all part of a fantasy of his, and he doesn't really get her after all. He could just be saying that the only way he could ever get her in the end would be by killing the other man. And he could never do that, so the love is as hopeless as it was in the beginning, but... he can still have wild fantasies about it to appease himself. I am convinced it is a sad song!
I definitely agree with your second interpretation. The entire album is all so one-sided, the singer keeps talking about how the girl will never love him back because she's in love with a "stone". It seems like this is him fantasizing about finally having her, and of course the best case scenario for him is that they've killed her lover together, and now "you're no one's but mine". There's nothing in the rest of the album to suggest her feelings have changed, so it makes more sense to me that this is his fantasy.
I definitely agree with your second interpretation. The entire album is all so one-sided, the singer keeps talking about how the girl will never love him back because she's in love with a "stone". It seems like this is him fantasizing about finally having her, and of course the best case scenario for him is that they've killed her lover together, and now "you're no one's but mine". There's nothing in the rest of the album to suggest her feelings have changed, so it makes more sense to me that this is his fantasy.
I think this song is about a man who just killed someone for his wife, she may have slept with another person and her husband killed him ...he has a "glow" because he enjoyed what he did...this song is so insanely morbid sounding...but oh so beautiful
creepy
the most beautiful song.
wow this is pretty creepy like debater said and like precipitate says is the most beatuiful song (off the new album). ::)
maybe about killing his best friend?
I like this song too. It continues the black sheep boy theme, with something there, lurking, wanting you to do bad things and comforting/supporting you when you do. Despite the line about the guy lying in a lane, I always thought this song could be about suicide.
I think the lyrics are wrong and the line is "the lane where he's lying; no heat in his home" since that is a recurring line in the album. "In the oven's heat this house is now a home," from "Song of Our So-Called Friend"; heat and warmth signals that people are living there. I agree that this song is about a homicide.
I don't think it's literally about a homicide. Several other songs on the album talk about how he wants a girl who's in love with someone else (who may or may not be dead -- see "A Stone" and "Songs of Our So-Called Friends"). In this song, he finally convinces her to forget about the other guy (i.e. emotionally "kill" the guy) and be with him instead. This song takes place right after she finally makes this choice ("And you're no one's but mine / And nobody knows").
The line "And you've wanted to do that my love / For so long" fits this too. He's telling her she made the right choice, it's something she should have done a long time ago.