I'm not sure about him killing himself... but he definitely knocks her off. It wouldn't be out of place on 'Murder Ballads'.
This song has always reminded me of the Robert Browning poem 'Porphyria's Lover'. It's about a Lady (like Lord) who visits the gardener (or servant or local hand or whatever) for some lurve (Lady Chatterley's Lover kinda thang). Anyway he's pissed right off cos he wants her all to himself and so, when she is in her arms, he strangles her with her own hair ('That moment she was mine, mine, fair,/Perfectly pure and good: I found/A thing to do, and all her hair/In one long yellow string I wound/Three times her little throat around,/And strangled her'). He then sits with her all night, with vague connotations that he's been indulging in some death-sex ('And thus we sit together now,/And all night long we have not stirr'd,/And yet God has not said a word!').
Mind you that's well off the point; just a cool poem. I don't see how he kills himself. The birds are singing 'to your beautiful heart'; not 'our beautiful hearts'.
In this song God does have something to say about it (unlike in Porphyria). However, God's lines are implied as we only hear the (clearly insane) narrator. The conversation probably goes something like this
God: Nick ol' son... what in the name of FUCK have you just done?
Nick: Chill out man. Don't go off on one. I had to do it cos I never was free.
God: You stupid little prick. What the fuck are you talking about. You were always free. I fuckin gave you free will and look what you've done with it. ASSHOLE!!! Listen I know the missus was a bit of a nag, and ok yeah it did look like she was about to leave you, but to silence her 'chain of command'... what are you sick?
Nick: Whoaoa. Dude... this is when I need you most. Don't go down now. I was never free. What are you talking about?
The narrator thinks that by 'lock'ing the 'ring upon the finger' he will be able to stop his wife's independent thought. The only way he can 'lock' it on is by removing her ability to take it off. So he kills her.
I'm not sure about him killing himself... but he definitely knocks her off. It wouldn't be out of place on 'Murder Ballads'.
This song has always reminded me of the Robert Browning poem 'Porphyria's Lover'. It's about a Lady (like Lord) who visits the gardener (or servant or local hand or whatever) for some lurve (Lady Chatterley's Lover kinda thang). Anyway he's pissed right off cos he wants her all to himself and so, when she is in her arms, he strangles her with her own hair ('That moment she was mine, mine, fair,/Perfectly pure and good: I found/A thing to do, and all her hair/In one long yellow string I wound/Three times her little throat around,/And strangled her'). He then sits with her all night, with vague connotations that he's been indulging in some death-sex ('And thus we sit together now,/And all night long we have not stirr'd,/And yet God has not said a word!').
Mind you that's well off the point; just a cool poem. I don't see how he kills himself. The birds are singing 'to your beautiful heart'; not 'our beautiful hearts'.
In this song God does have something to say about it (unlike in Porphyria). However, God's lines are implied as we only hear the (clearly insane) narrator. The conversation probably goes something like this
God: Nick ol' son... what in the name of FUCK have you just done?
Nick: Chill out man. Don't go off on one. I had to do it cos I never was free.
God: You stupid little prick. What the fuck are you talking about. You were always free. I fuckin gave you free will and look what you've done with it. ASSHOLE!!! Listen I know the missus was a bit of a nag, and ok yeah it did look like she was about to leave you, but to silence her 'chain of command'... what are you sick?
Nick: Whoaoa. Dude... this is when I need you most. Don't go down now. I was never free. What are you talking about?
The narrator thinks that by 'lock'ing the 'ring upon the finger' he will be able to stop his wife's independent thought. The only way he can 'lock' it on is by removing her ability to take it off. So he kills her.