its amazing how far music can come.. 24 years after it released and its one of the most heartfelt songs ive heard
Sleep Eden sleep
My fallen son
Slumber in peace
Cease the pain
Life's just in vain
For us to gain
Nothing but all the same
No healing hand
For your disease
Drinking scorn like water
Cascading with my tears
Beneath the candle bed
Two saddened angels, in heaven, in death
Now let us lie
Sad we lived sad we die
Even in your pride
I never blamed you
A mother's love
Is a sacrifice
Together sleeping
Keeping it all
No sympathy
No eternity
One light for each undeserved tear
Beneath the candle bed
Two souls with everything yet to be said
My fallen son
Slumber in peace
Cease the pain
Life's just in vain
For us to gain
Nothing but all the same
No healing hand
For your disease
Drinking scorn like water
Cascading with my tears
Beneath the candle bed
Two saddened angels, in heaven, in death
Now let us lie
Sad we lived sad we die
Even in your pride
I never blamed you
A mother's love
Is a sacrifice
Together sleeping
Keeping it all
No sympathy
No eternity
One light for each undeserved tear
Beneath the candle bed
Two souls with everything yet to be said
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---'Life's just in vain For us to gain Nothing but all the same' --- Speaks for itself, really. We're all going to die anyway, that is the destiny of everything and everyone, and life is superficial at the end of it.
--- 'No healing hand For your disease Drinking scorn like water Cascading with my tears' --- She has no choice, but they share the pain. Especially if this song is about abortion, it could be saying that even though she's made that choice, it doesn't mean she doesn't love her child (Perhaps the scorn is toward her), she feels as if she couldn't do anything else.
--- 'Beneath the candle bed Two saddened angels - in heaven, in death Now let us lie Sad we lived, sad we die Even in your pride I never blamed you' --- She's not blaming her child.
---'A mother's love Is a sacrifice' --- Again, perhaps she did it out of compassion because she didn't want him to suffer, or if it was a miscarriage, she is saying the sadness of loss is the risk we take when we love.
That's my interpretation of it. As well as the fact that it's called 'two for tragedy', which is a clear subversion of the magpie song:
One for sorrow Two for mirth Three for a wedding Four for a birth