'I'll eat this young whelp's heart I will' IS a wonderful line.
What do you reckon this song's about. My guess is that it's a kind of vanitas.
The first half seems clear: man dies, woman misses him, but death must be accepted.
But who is the narrator? A gravedigger? the woman's new lover? A graverobber?
Why is the narrator in pools? What is the temptation? Then they raid his grave. So perhaps it is a graverobber?
Anyways, brilliant song, superb live too.
'I'll eat this young whelp's heart I will' IS a wonderful line.
What do you reckon this song's about. My guess is that it's a kind of vanitas.
The first half seems clear: man dies, woman misses him, but death must be accepted.
But who is the narrator? A gravedigger? the woman's new lover? A graverobber?
Why is the narrator in pools? What is the temptation? Then they raid his grave. So perhaps it is a graverobber?
Anyways, brilliant song, superb live too.
I never thought of it as a song about a death in the literal sense, that's interesting, as if the man were dead and his wife/lover who stood by him through all was finally leaving him.
I never thought of it as a song about a death in the literal sense, that's interesting, as if the man were dead and his wife/lover who stood by him through all was finally leaving him.
Obviously there's a lot of death imagery, but I imagined it as "digging the grave" for the lover you scorned, as in ridding yourself of him completely, particularly because of the lines "and now perched on his skull/ are these cuckold's horns." I see the song as the story of a man who was his wife/lover's protector ("he who...
Obviously there's a lot of death imagery, but I imagined it as "digging the grave" for the lover you scorned, as in ridding yourself of him completely, particularly because of the lines "and now perched on his skull/ are these cuckold's horns." I see the song as the story of a man who was his wife/lover's protector ("he who was your bull/ and made the shadows run"), and has now been cheated on and left by said lover; hence, the reason that even after he is cuckolded, he is humiliated ("I'll eat this young whelp's heart..."; "with fists for spades..."). I agree with regulus, in that maybe the song is narrated by the wife's new lover. He could be sympathetic toward the cuckolded man, but it's a condescending and hypocritical sympathy.
'I'll eat this young whelp's heart I will' 'I'll eat this young whelp's heart I will' 'I'll eat this young whelp's heart'
^For me the most heart-breaking musical moment of 2008 so far.
'I'll eat this young whelp's heart I will' IS a wonderful line. What do you reckon this song's about. My guess is that it's a kind of vanitas. The first half seems clear: man dies, woman misses him, but death must be accepted. But who is the narrator? A gravedigger? the woman's new lover? A graverobber? Why is the narrator in pools? What is the temptation? Then they raid his grave. So perhaps it is a graverobber? Anyways, brilliant song, superb live too.
'I'll eat this young whelp's heart I will' IS a wonderful line. What do you reckon this song's about. My guess is that it's a kind of vanitas. The first half seems clear: man dies, woman misses him, but death must be accepted. But who is the narrator? A gravedigger? the woman's new lover? A graverobber? Why is the narrator in pools? What is the temptation? Then they raid his grave. So perhaps it is a graverobber? Anyways, brilliant song, superb live too.
Such a great song.
Such a great song.
I never thought of it as a song about a death in the literal sense, that's interesting, as if the man were dead and his wife/lover who stood by him through all was finally leaving him.
I never thought of it as a song about a death in the literal sense, that's interesting, as if the man were dead and his wife/lover who stood by him through all was finally leaving him.
Obviously there's a lot of death imagery, but I imagined it as "digging the grave" for the lover you scorned, as in ridding yourself of him completely, particularly because of the lines "and now perched on his skull/ are these cuckold's horns." I see the song as the story of a man who was his wife/lover's protector ("he who...
Obviously there's a lot of death imagery, but I imagined it as "digging the grave" for the lover you scorned, as in ridding yourself of him completely, particularly because of the lines "and now perched on his skull/ are these cuckold's horns." I see the song as the story of a man who was his wife/lover's protector ("he who was your bull/ and made the shadows run"), and has now been cheated on and left by said lover; hence, the reason that even after he is cuckolded, he is humiliated ("I'll eat this young whelp's heart..."; "with fists for spades..."). I agree with regulus, in that maybe the song is narrated by the wife's new lover. He could be sympathetic toward the cuckolded man, but it's a condescending and hypocritical sympathy.