I've always liked this song. It's challenging to analyze. And I looked up battlement because I wasn’t positive what one was. [The notched top (crenellated parapet) of a defensive wall, with open spaces (crenels) for firing weapons.]
The man of the tale helped to build the city and then participated in its destruction. This could be a metaphor for how we create and destroy with our behavioral defense mechanisms.
“If I’ve built this fortress …” It’s a suspicion. He’s not positive but fairly certain and wants to pass through his own traps by building a bridge. He wants to burn the battlements because he has decided against being so insecure about the lady’s love that he still feels the need to keep her heart prisoner.
He leaves on a pretext, imagining the lady thinks the worst of him for his previously harsh reign or
He left on a pretext after imprisoning the lady, was gone for many years and just now returned to free her—wondering if she wished he was dead while he was gone. I think the latter because of the reference to the prison becoming her home. He comments that the lady didn’t fight too hard against this, she may have felt she deserved it, or felt he was worth being imprisoned over.
But he’s back. He wants to build that bridge and hopefully free her rather than just setting the battlements on fire and leaving her in there. Come on—I’m teasing. He didn’t set her on fire too.
I've always liked this song. It's challenging to analyze. And I looked up battlement because I wasn’t positive what one was. [The notched top (crenellated parapet) of a defensive wall, with open spaces (crenels) for firing weapons.] The man of the tale helped to build the city and then participated in its destruction. This could be a metaphor for how we create and destroy with our behavioral defense mechanisms.
“If I’ve built this fortress …” It’s a suspicion. He’s not positive but fairly certain and wants to pass through his own traps by building a bridge. He wants to burn the battlements because he has decided against being so insecure about the lady’s love that he still feels the need to keep her heart prisoner.
He leaves on a pretext, imagining the lady thinks the worst of him for his previously harsh reign or He left on a pretext after imprisoning the lady, was gone for many years and just now returned to free her—wondering if she wished he was dead while he was gone. I think the latter because of the reference to the prison becoming her home. He comments that the lady didn’t fight too hard against this, she may have felt she deserved it, or felt he was worth being imprisoned over.
But he’s back. He wants to build that bridge and hopefully free her rather than just setting the battlements on fire and leaving her in there. Come on—I’m teasing. He didn’t set her on fire too.
lol, set her on fire. good one.
lol, set her on fire. good one.