For a while, I couldn't figure out why the outro in this song features a baby crying. So I reread the lyrics, and it kinda makes sense to me now. The 'Old Sorrow' is life itself. The translation I read was slightly different from this one...it read 'out of the seed', instead of 'on the board', which makes more sense to me. It represents being born, and having to put up with all the sorrow of life. And all he wants to do is fuck, because that makes life a little more bearable, but at the same time he'll bring into the world another child to experience the pain. The crying baby represents this child experiencing just the beginning of the pain and sorrow.
For a while, I couldn't figure out why the outro in this song features a baby crying. So I reread the lyrics, and it kinda makes sense to me now. The 'Old Sorrow' is life itself. The translation I read was slightly different from this one...it read 'out of the seed', instead of 'on the board', which makes more sense to me. It represents being born, and having to put up with all the sorrow of life. And all he wants to do is fuck, because that makes life a little more bearable, but at the same time he'll bring into the world another child to experience the pain. The crying baby represents this child experiencing just the beginning of the pain and sorrow.