Lyric discussion by SoakedinMercury 

Cover art for The Highwayman lyrics by Loreena McKennitt

Beautiful. Nothing but beautiful. But, Shiara, how can you be mad at the Highwayman for killing himself...? I know I wouldn't be able to live if I knew my love were dead. He died in a torrent of rage and love. Tragic but noble.

@SoakedinMercury The Highwayman didn't kill himself. The Redcoats caught up to him and killed him on the highway. The poem says, "When they shot him down in the highway/ Down like a dog on the highway/ And he lay in his blood in the highway/ With a bunch of lace at his throat" in the thirteenth stanza.