When I heard the lyrics to this song I immediately thought of the short story A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner. If my memory serves me correctly, Emily falls in love with a man named Homer...however he's always looking at men, so it is assumed that he's homosexual. Anyway she ends up killing him (he won't marry her when she proposes, as I remember it) with cyanide I think, and keeps his dead body in her room, where she sleeps with it. So unless it's a coincidence I think that is what the song is about.
This song is indeed about A Rose For Emily by Faulkner. Except Homer drank Arsenic, not Cyanide. But he was gay and wouldn't marry her, and she killed him.
This song is indeed about A Rose For Emily by Faulkner. Except Homer drank Arsenic, not Cyanide. But he was gay and wouldn't marry her, and she killed him.
When I heard the lyrics to this song I immediately thought of the short story A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner. If my memory serves me correctly, Emily falls in love with a man named Homer...however he's always looking at men, so it is assumed that he's homosexual. Anyway she ends up killing him (he won't marry her when she proposes, as I remember it) with cyanide I think, and keeps his dead body in her room, where she sleeps with it. So unless it's a coincidence I think that is what the song is about.
This song is indeed about A Rose For Emily by Faulkner. Except Homer drank Arsenic, not Cyanide. But he was gay and wouldn't marry her, and she killed him.
This song is indeed about A Rose For Emily by Faulkner. Except Homer drank Arsenic, not Cyanide. But he was gay and wouldn't marry her, and she killed him.