Furnace Room Lullaby Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Purrty 

Cover art for Furnace Room Lullaby lyrics by Neko Case

I somehow hear this as a song by a man. A man who has killed a woman -- a lover maybe?

'Take you' would mean sex, even rape. 'Throne on my chest' was where the woman was when it was still all consensual. But then he twisted her over and 'pushed her into the beams' -- of the bed I suppose, OR the floor boards, in the form of blood. The blood has seeped so deep into them.

And he feels shocked and bad about what he did -- hearing her heartbeat in the silence of the night.