It sounds like the two men talking in this song are struggling to deal with the reality and the magnitude of love. The speaker, the unnamed 'great composer', grew up on pop music much like the kind that Holland-Dozier-Holland would have written for the Pretenders and the like, can't handle the concept that love isn't as trite and simple as music has brought him to believe. This is what leads him to kill Mr. Saussure, the great philosopher.
It's a narrative of the disillusionment that pop culture creates about what love really is, the way it cheapens and skews the ambiguous concept of love in modern society. Even pop music cannot simply love for it's beautiful complexity.
It sounds like the two men talking in this song are struggling to deal with the reality and the magnitude of love. The speaker, the unnamed 'great composer', grew up on pop music much like the kind that Holland-Dozier-Holland would have written for the Pretenders and the like, can't handle the concept that love isn't as trite and simple as music has brought him to believe. This is what leads him to kill Mr. Saussure, the great philosopher.
It's a narrative of the disillusionment that pop culture creates about what love really is, the way it cheapens and skews the ambiguous concept of love in modern society. Even pop music cannot simply love for it's beautiful complexity.