Pure and simple, this song is about the protagonist reaching the end of a long road to revenge against someone he still loves. He's obviously conflicted by the prospect of carrying out his plan (though he feels like crying, he swears tonight he'll cry no more/how many times has he prayed that he'd get lost along the way, etc) but he sees the house in one verse, and in the next verse he's in the room where she's sleeping, silently admonishing her for how easy it was for him to get into the house, to put him into position where he has to psyche himself up to continue to the next step. The longest mile would be the actual execution of his plan.
This is a deceptively powerful song, I always get a bit of a chill when I hear "You should have closed your windows and got another dog.
You should have chained up all the doors and switched up all the locks."
Pure and simple, this song is about the protagonist reaching the end of a long road to revenge against someone he still loves. He's obviously conflicted by the prospect of carrying out his plan (though he feels like crying, he swears tonight he'll cry no more/how many times has he prayed that he'd get lost along the way, etc) but he sees the house in one verse, and in the next verse he's in the room where she's sleeping, silently admonishing her for how easy it was for him to get into the house, to put him into position where he has to psyche himself up to continue to the next step. The longest mile would be the actual execution of his plan.
This is a deceptively powerful song, I always get a bit of a chill when I hear "You should have closed your windows and got another dog. You should have chained up all the doors and switched up all the locks."
Makes me wonder - what happened to her other dog?