I really love these lines:
"And my piano crouched in the corner of my room
With all its teeth bared"
And the ending is so moving:
"The tears are welling in my eyes again
Hallelujah
I need twenty big buckets to catch them in
Hallelujah
And twenty pretty girls to carry
them down
Hallelujah
And twenty deep holes to bury them in"
It seems to be about trying to escape from a repressing comfort zone. He's trying to venture out in the world and live life, and he sees the house "with all hope and dreams kept within". But in the end he is too scared to enter. So he turns back home to his protected life and continues to suppress all his emotions. The image of his tears that as to be carried in twenty big buckets and buried in twenty deep holes is so strong.
I think it could be interpreted as religion being the "nurse" protecting people from reality, and keeping them from truly living life.
In dream analysis a house is usually seen as a symbol of a persons identity, so it could be that the narrator is actually tempted, but afraid of looking inwards.
I really love these lines: "And my piano crouched in the corner of my room With all its teeth bared"
And the ending is so moving:
"The tears are welling in my eyes again Hallelujah I need twenty big buckets to catch them in Hallelujah And twenty pretty girls to carry them down Hallelujah And twenty deep holes to bury them in"
It seems to be about trying to escape from a repressing comfort zone. He's trying to venture out in the world and live life, and he sees the house "with all hope and dreams kept within". But in the end he is too scared to enter. So he turns back home to his protected life and continues to suppress all his emotions. The image of his tears that as to be carried in twenty big buckets and buried in twenty deep holes is so strong. I think it could be interpreted as religion being the "nurse" protecting people from reality, and keeping them from truly living life. In dream analysis a house is usually seen as a symbol of a persons identity, so it could be that the narrator is actually tempted, but afraid of looking inwards.