The Lady of Shalott Lyrics

Lyric discussion by 1Berna1 

Cover art for The Lady of Shalott lyrics by Loreena McKennitt

Its clearly all about ambition and her inability to be happy with what she already has. She loses herself ("with a glassy countenance") to greed and ambition...She just wants to get to Camelot. Lancelot, more than anything symbolises a way to get there.

I presume being stuck in a cursed tower, with nothing but a mirror reflecting the outside world, isolated from civilisation, love and warmth, with nothing but a loom for company would I think, convince someone to wish for higher things. XD