There's too much lyrical content to reference here, so I'll give you a general idea. I believe it is about a man who has visions of his baby being born. The baby is Alvin Row. He imagines the baby growing up and eventually dying (fading). He wonders if the visions are real.
Now here's the tricky part.. is the baby real? He talks about "baby bleeding" (bloody from birth) followed by the screaming that would definitely relate to birth... or is it mourning? Reaching for the lampshade could signify the father is kept up by visions of his baby dying (bleeding). I can't say which one is correct... but if the baby really is born then the ending is the father finally saying goodbye to his Alvin. Eventually he will "sing Row, dear Alvin" or in other words, he will sing the song "Alvin Row" about it.
Now the section starting with "I remember the day..." is a very hard section to digests because a) the lyrics are very strange and hard to decipher and b) it doesn't seem to fit with the story. Perhaps the father is remembering his own childhood (chocolate shakes, ice cream man's bell). The rest is too cryptic for me, not to mention I could have the lyrics all wrong. Either way I think I should at least give my impression. Maybe a better understanding will be presented later.
Did You See The Words and Cuckoo Cuckoo seem to have similar themes, but we all could be reading into it too much, especially given that this is years before Avey and had a wife (i think...). I wish I knew if they had a miscarriage experience, as that would be telling. Even if they didnt there are definite themes of loss and growing all throughout their works up through the feels/sungtongs era.
Did You See The Words and Cuckoo Cuckoo seem to have similar themes, but we all could be reading into it too much, especially given that this is years before Avey and had a wife (i think...). I wish I knew if they had a miscarriage experience, as that would be telling. Even if they didnt there are definite themes of loss and growing all throughout their works up through the feels/sungtongs era.
As for interpretation:
There's too much lyrical content to reference here, so I'll give you a general idea. I believe it is about a man who has visions of his baby being born. The baby is Alvin Row. He imagines the baby growing up and eventually dying (fading). He wonders if the visions are real.
Now here's the tricky part.. is the baby real? He talks about "baby bleeding" (bloody from birth) followed by the screaming that would definitely relate to birth... or is it mourning? Reaching for the lampshade could signify the father is kept up by visions of his baby dying (bleeding). I can't say which one is correct... but if the baby really is born then the ending is the father finally saying goodbye to his Alvin. Eventually he will "sing Row, dear Alvin" or in other words, he will sing the song "Alvin Row" about it.
Now the section starting with "I remember the day..." is a very hard section to digests because a) the lyrics are very strange and hard to decipher and b) it doesn't seem to fit with the story. Perhaps the father is remembering his own childhood (chocolate shakes, ice cream man's bell). The rest is too cryptic for me, not to mention I could have the lyrics all wrong. Either way I think I should at least give my impression. Maybe a better understanding will be presented later.
Did You See The Words and Cuckoo Cuckoo seem to have similar themes, but we all could be reading into it too much, especially given that this is years before Avey and had a wife (i think...). I wish I knew if they had a miscarriage experience, as that would be telling. Even if they didnt there are definite themes of loss and growing all throughout their works up through the feels/sungtongs era.
Did You See The Words and Cuckoo Cuckoo seem to have similar themes, but we all could be reading into it too much, especially given that this is years before Avey and had a wife (i think...). I wish I knew if they had a miscarriage experience, as that would be telling. Even if they didnt there are definite themes of loss and growing all throughout their works up through the feels/sungtongs era.