This is the song that made me fall in love with Cave´s music once upon a time when it was released and still to this day it brings a lovely heaviness upon my chest and tears in my eyes... and so on...
Some people suggest that the character actually kills the girl at the end of the song, but doesn´t necessarily have to be the case, does it? Although it´s a melancholy and eerie piece, not every song Cave writes is a murder ballad...
Trivia: The line "the elms and the poplars / were turning their backs" is taken from Vladimir Nabokov´s "Lolita", Cave´s no 1 favourite novel.
This is the song that made me fall in love with Cave´s music once upon a time when it was released and still to this day it brings a lovely heaviness upon my chest and tears in my eyes... and so on... Some people suggest that the character actually kills the girl at the end of the song, but doesn´t necessarily have to be the case, does it? Although it´s a melancholy and eerie piece, not every song Cave writes is a murder ballad... Trivia: The line "the elms and the poplars / were turning their backs" is taken from Vladimir Nabokov´s "Lolita", Cave´s no 1 favourite novel.