The lyrics are probably pretty easy to understand. It's pretty straight forward. I always assumed it was about a real incident where a man was killed by bigotts for no reason. There's the whole prisoner/ guard metaphor, the scared of his power, frightened of his love...I see power as anything but physical power in this case. And love as being something alien to bigotts.
I love the song. The backup singers are incredible.
The lyrics are probably pretty easy to understand. It's pretty straight forward. I always assumed it was about a real incident where a man was killed by bigotts for no reason. There's the whole prisoner/ guard metaphor, the scared of his power, frightened of his love...I see power as anything but physical power in this case. And love as being something alien to bigotts.
I love the song. The backup singers are incredible.