Sadness. It seems that she has in fact a drug addiction( i believe heroin specifically because of the white horse, metaphor, and the fact that ireland had a very bad heroin problem). Not only that she has left Van for a richer man( who also happens to own the stereotypical love-gone-bad mobile, the Cadillac). Maybe shes been revealed to be shallow and only interested in money and was lying the whole time. or maybe wants the richer man to pay for her drug habit.? who can say. but the last lines are the most disturbing of the album. He reveals that she is dying. Is she dying on the inside, by becoming more and more unloving and interested in greed (remember the avarice from the first song?!?! a ha, is that the connection? ((Avarice- love of money,greed))? or is she dying physically, from the heroin or something else? we never know . but what we do know is that he is still in love with her dispite it all and her pain is still his pain. This album is to me one of the single greatest works in modern music. if not the best. It has a quality unique to Van and only Van of 1968.
Sadness. It seems that she has in fact a drug addiction( i believe heroin specifically because of the white horse, metaphor, and the fact that ireland had a very bad heroin problem). Not only that she has left Van for a richer man( who also happens to own the stereotypical love-gone-bad mobile, the Cadillac). Maybe shes been revealed to be shallow and only interested in money and was lying the whole time. or maybe wants the richer man to pay for her drug habit.? who can say. but the last lines are the most disturbing of the album. He reveals that she is dying. Is she dying on the inside, by becoming more and more unloving and interested in greed (remember the avarice from the first song?!?! a ha, is that the connection? ((Avarice- love of money,greed))? or is she dying physically, from the heroin or something else? we never know . but what we do know is that he is still in love with her dispite it all and her pain is still his pain. This album is to me one of the single greatest works in modern music. if not the best. It has a quality unique to Van and only Van of 1968.