I love this song. Everytime I hear it, it has new meaning strung into it's words, but quite consistantly, and most intelligibly, it is about a bumbling idiot virgin (presumably) who falls in love with a sexy, cynical woman and hasn't the slightest on how to please her.
There is quite a lot in the song suggesting a violent courtship following the initial attraction, or at the very least, a rape followed by remorse on the part of the virgin 'You'. (Tiny spears of beard, you bring nothing but a raft's hope, as well as the man's presense at the climax of the song.)
A confrontation leads to fighing and an eventual slit-wristed suicide of the girl right in front of the man who sired her child, as depicted rather obviously in the last bits of the song: Proof, of course, that she did indeed leave 'you' for the Undertaker and his Baby Morgues.
I love this song. Everytime I hear it, it has new meaning strung into it's words, but quite consistantly, and most intelligibly, it is about a bumbling idiot virgin (presumably) who falls in love with a sexy, cynical woman and hasn't the slightest on how to please her.
There is quite a lot in the song suggesting a violent courtship following the initial attraction, or at the very least, a rape followed by remorse on the part of the virgin 'You'. (Tiny spears of beard, you bring nothing but a raft's hope, as well as the man's presense at the climax of the song.)
A confrontation leads to fighing and an eventual slit-wristed suicide of the girl right in front of the man who sired her child, as depicted rather obviously in the last bits of the song: Proof, of course, that she did indeed leave 'you' for the Undertaker and his Baby Morgues.