As the title of this song implies, it is a rehearsal. The wife is rehearsing the lines that she wants to say to her husband. She has known for a long time that he has been cheating on her. The next line is even more depressing. She calls her husband “so unoriginal, each move, more obvious than the one before it”. Her problem is not so much that her husband is cheating on her as the fact that he is just so boring. His unoriginality has led to her life of boredom, emptiness, and unfullfillment.
This wife knows that she should be really upset with his stepping out. She always said she would kill him if he ever cheated on him. When she said that she would kill him, she had no idea what “hatred and regret were all about”. She truly hates him now. But again, not in the same way she thought she would. His unoriginality and apathy just simply bore her. She knows she could be bigger (and forgive his cheating), but wants to make him pay (because she has long since loved him and now downright loathes him).
This song says a whole lot about our society. Adultery and cheating are not as painful as being boring. We live in a society that values entertainment and excitement. If you can not provide these things, you are not worth having around. Intellect has lost out to entertainment. A boring husband is worse than an exciting cheating husband. Our world needs God.
As the title of this song implies, it is a rehearsal. The wife is rehearsing the lines that she wants to say to her husband. She has known for a long time that he has been cheating on her. The next line is even more depressing. She calls her husband “so unoriginal, each move, more obvious than the one before it”. Her problem is not so much that her husband is cheating on her as the fact that he is just so boring. His unoriginality has led to her life of boredom, emptiness, and unfullfillment. This wife knows that she should be really upset with his stepping out. She always said she would kill him if he ever cheated on him. When she said that she would kill him, she had no idea what “hatred and regret were all about”. She truly hates him now. But again, not in the same way she thought she would. His unoriginality and apathy just simply bore her. She knows she could be bigger (and forgive his cheating), but wants to make him pay (because she has long since loved him and now downright loathes him). This song says a whole lot about our society. Adultery and cheating are not as painful as being boring. We live in a society that values entertainment and excitement. If you can not provide these things, you are not worth having around. Intellect has lost out to entertainment. A boring husband is worse than an exciting cheating husband. Our world needs God.