One of those beautiful songs I come back to every few years.
To me, it's very clearly about the end of a relationship.You can choose your definition of "relationship", but I see a straightforward song about the end of a romantic partnership. The song conveys feelings of hopefulness and desperation.
She's entering the beginning of the end. She searches for him. She yearns for him. She's hopeful and nostalgic.
She blames him for letting it all fall apart. He's "lost his way", whether that means he's strayed or he's letting her slip away. She just can't help but think of him.
She turns to desperation, and some anger. She cries out for this missing person, distraught that he's not there when she needs him most. She longs to hold him again.
Once again, she blames him. The music is louder and more intense to show her growing frustration. He did this, he let the whole thing falter, and yet here she is still wanting him.
I'm uncertain what the final lines mean, especially since the male singer sings them with her. Is he telling her that she's just as bad as him? Is he asking for empathy? Is it he who wants *her* to whistle through her window, to call for him despite his behavior? Is he yearning for her just as much. Is she just imaginging that he feels this way?
Her ghostly moans at the very end convey a sense of mourning, of acceptance.
muzaklubberon June 18, 2020 Link
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