i love this song, it's my favourite lee song behind 'eric's trip'.
i definitely picked up a story of infidelity. the two people share a deep but forbidden love, and although they are ashamed and try to end it, all the narrator truly wants is for time to stop, and their love to be allowed. he has romantic ideas about them running away, etc, but he knows they are fruitless.
i see the guilt as being felt by the narrator and his lover, rather than the third party (whom i assume to be the woman's partner/husband). the line "my best friend sucked his wife's blood and shrivelled up" seems to suggest that the woman's partner has found out about the infidelity and gone insane with grief (and possibly killed himself?).
it seems that the woman eventually leaves the narrator, as indicated by the line "nothing can be held in my hands for long", out of guilt and shame re her partner.
in the end it seems to be about the regret, bad timing and unfortunate circumstances in which this relationship occurs.
maybe i'm taking it all a bit too literally though.
i love this song, it's my favourite lee song behind 'eric's trip'.
i definitely picked up a story of infidelity. the two people share a deep but forbidden love, and although they are ashamed and try to end it, all the narrator truly wants is for time to stop, and their love to be allowed. he has romantic ideas about them running away, etc, but he knows they are fruitless. i see the guilt as being felt by the narrator and his lover, rather than the third party (whom i assume to be the woman's partner/husband). the line "my best friend sucked his wife's blood and shrivelled up" seems to suggest that the woman's partner has found out about the infidelity and gone insane with grief (and possibly killed himself?).
it seems that the woman eventually leaves the narrator, as indicated by the line "nothing can be held in my hands for long", out of guilt and shame re her partner.
in the end it seems to be about the regret, bad timing and unfortunate circumstances in which this relationship occurs.
maybe i'm taking it all a bit too literally though.