I dunno. Since an 'elegy' is a kind of song sung either in mourning or for the dead, I always assumed Betta was a little girl who died, and all of these sounds were kind of a eulogy for a kid.
When I hear the lines about rain clattering down, winter, gray skies, and people walking away, I think of a winter funeral in a city graveyard. I don't know why I never made the connection with 'reading daddy's lips', but I always assumed that line and the 'rooms too much has happened in' line meant that she died after her dad beat her or something...crap, I'm so depressing D:
The explanation that she's deaf makes much more sense and is much less awful and sad, so I'll stick with that!
I dunno. Since an 'elegy' is a kind of song sung either in mourning or for the dead, I always assumed Betta was a little girl who died, and all of these sounds were kind of a eulogy for a kid.
When I hear the lines about rain clattering down, winter, gray skies, and people walking away, I think of a winter funeral in a city graveyard. I don't know why I never made the connection with 'reading daddy's lips', but I always assumed that line and the 'rooms too much has happened in' line meant that she died after her dad beat her or something...crap, I'm so depressing D:
The explanation that she's deaf makes much more sense and is much less awful and sad, so I'll stick with that!