first off, i'm obsessed with the sadness of this song, i love depressing things they make me content.
Anyways, with that aside, i definitely think it is correlated directly to the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawethorne. I love that book.
follow the lyrics and compare to this:
he wishes he could've been there to see him commit this act firsthand, also saying that he feels dead because of this. he wants the world to know of his pain, by this i belive it's a reference to the letter from the beginning of hawethorne's book that seared the narrator's heart with pain like a red hot iron when he held it near his breast. the other man didn't realize that she was with another man, and now that he realizes the severity of this he's consumed with guilt
the first man wants the other man to fess up, but for one reason or another the other man does not, and as a consequence the first man kills him. the first man finds it ironic that his dream of killing him has finally become a reality.
now he talks from the wife's point of view, she walks to the living room to see what the scream she heard was from, she now see's her husband lying on the floor dead. It seems familiar because both of her lovers are now dead.
the chorus repeats and now her worst nightmare/dream has now become her reality
That's my take on it, i believe the part two on the title refers to the fact that things like these happen in everyday life and they will until the end of time, this is just the 2nd time someone has recanted the story.
It's a subjective theory to the song's meaning, but i love this song so much. It's subjectivity is what makes it so good
first off, i'm obsessed with the sadness of this song, i love depressing things they make me content.
Anyways, with that aside, i definitely think it is correlated directly to the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawethorne. I love that book.
follow the lyrics and compare to this: he wishes he could've been there to see him commit this act firsthand, also saying that he feels dead because of this. he wants the world to know of his pain, by this i belive it's a reference to the letter from the beginning of hawethorne's book that seared the narrator's heart with pain like a red hot iron when he held it near his breast. the other man didn't realize that she was with another man, and now that he realizes the severity of this he's consumed with guilt
the first man wants the other man to fess up, but for one reason or another the other man does not, and as a consequence the first man kills him. the first man finds it ironic that his dream of killing him has finally become a reality.
now he talks from the wife's point of view, she walks to the living room to see what the scream she heard was from, she now see's her husband lying on the floor dead. It seems familiar because both of her lovers are now dead.
the chorus repeats and now her worst nightmare/dream has now become her reality
That's my take on it, i believe the part two on the title refers to the fact that things like these happen in everyday life and they will until the end of time, this is just the 2nd time someone has recanted the story.
It's a subjective theory to the song's meaning, but i love this song so much. It's subjectivity is what makes it so good