Although the comment about the children being ghosts seems plausible, I personally feel as though the comments about the disconnected family are correct. I agree with the fact that the way the king and queen are spoken of makes it appear that they are supressing their emotions about the king's obvious affair with the Duchess of Kircaldy, which is made even more apparent with the line implying the duke is sexually inadequate in some way (The duke was having problems/With a message the local "bird and bee".) The rest of the comments about emotional supression make the most sense to me. I think the baby, although it may actually be a child of the king and queen, represents all the characters in the song, who ultimately represent a lot of people in real life.
The other comment about the ending of the song makes a lot of sense to me too, about how they wish to go back to times much simpler than the one they lived at the time, battling drug addictions and various prominent issues they must have been having in their lives.
I wish we could go back and ask John what he intended this song to mean, though. I'm a teenager now, and like others said I was greatly impacted by the song for a reason I could not explain when I first heard it. It made my heart ache and I wasn't sure why, which was amazing.
Although the comment about the children being ghosts seems plausible, I personally feel as though the comments about the disconnected family are correct. I agree with the fact that the way the king and queen are spoken of makes it appear that they are supressing their emotions about the king's obvious affair with the Duchess of Kircaldy, which is made even more apparent with the line implying the duke is sexually inadequate in some way (The duke was having problems/With a message the local "bird and bee".) The rest of the comments about emotional supression make the most sense to me. I think the baby, although it may actually be a child of the king and queen, represents all the characters in the song, who ultimately represent a lot of people in real life.
The other comment about the ending of the song makes a lot of sense to me too, about how they wish to go back to times much simpler than the one they lived at the time, battling drug addictions and various prominent issues they must have been having in their lives.
I wish we could go back and ask John what he intended this song to mean, though. I'm a teenager now, and like others said I was greatly impacted by the song for a reason I could not explain when I first heard it. It made my heart ache and I wasn't sure why, which was amazing.
bird and bee is english slang for bed and breakfast
bird and bee is english slang for bed and breakfast