This is one of those songs that seems to tell a story but actually leaves you in the dark. Very Gothic; the woman in her veil, probably disfigured, the old house burnt down, the lover returning with his cruel lantern to tear off the veil & see the face behind it... Powerful stuff. Even Nick Cave's falsetto works, bizarrely.
This is one of those songs that seems to tell a story but actually leaves you in the dark. Very Gothic; the woman in her veil, probably disfigured, the old house burnt down, the lover returning with his cruel lantern to tear off the veil & see the face behind it... Powerful stuff. Even Nick Cave's falsetto works, bizarrely.