This duet is gorgeous! However, it is heart breaking.
Ilse is a young teen who is constantly abused by her father. This song has so much symbalism.
"Sure, when it’s autumn
Wind always wants to
Creep up and haunt you
Whistlin’ it’s got you
With its heartache, with its sorrow
Winter wind sings and it cries"
You can almost look at this part as if her father is the wind. In the song "The Dark I Know Well" Ilse and Martha talk about how their dads will come up to their rooms and sexually assault them. He creeps up to her room and then he holds her tight and probably, in a very controlling way--he may tell her "I've got you"
In the third verse Ilse is the "Blue Wind", and again, if you look at this symbolically her dad has become part of her as it is he who forces her into prostituition.
I know a lot of people say that she is being positive and looking on the "bright side" of life, and trying to convense him why he should live. I used to think this too. But now after looking at it from another angle I can see that's not the case. She's actually talking about how lonely she is--how misrable life is--and how she wants him to help soak up her hurt.
This duet is gorgeous! However, it is heart breaking.
Ilse is a young teen who is constantly abused by her father. This song has so much symbalism.
"Sure, when it’s autumn Wind always wants to Creep up and haunt you Whistlin’ it’s got you With its heartache, with its sorrow Winter wind sings and it cries"
You can almost look at this part as if her father is the wind. In the song "The Dark I Know Well" Ilse and Martha talk about how their dads will come up to their rooms and sexually assault them. He creeps up to her room and then he holds her tight and probably, in a very controlling way--he may tell her "I've got you"
In the third verse Ilse is the "Blue Wind", and again, if you look at this symbolically her dad has become part of her as it is he who forces her into prostituition.
I know a lot of people say that she is being positive and looking on the "bright side" of life, and trying to convense him why he should live. I used to think this too. But now after looking at it from another angle I can see that's not the case. She's actually talking about how lonely she is--how misrable life is--and how she wants him to help soak up her hurt.