Everything's Turning To White Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Alifus 

Cover art for Everything's Turning To White lyrics by Paul Kelly

to me the "white" is the opposite to black (in the movie the woman murdered is aboriginal). The connotations of black are negative and cold (often associated with death and depression). Perhaps Paul Kelly meant the white to be the opposite of black but to still retain the cold, negative connotations? Paul Kelly also discusses the loss of love in

its also about the betralal that the woman feels that her husband could let that go unreported. The very fact that he could go fising out of the same water that a woman was dumped in.