All elements of death coming around. You have the black bird tapping on the window, a reference on lore to someone going to die. You have mention of the midnight train, yet another reference to coming death. Last but not least, mad shriekin' woman (banshee) also a well know lady like figure, with her scream comes death.
The line that is left to question is the one that starts off each verse. Is this demon a feeling he has suppressed within himself that has drove him to insanity? "Sick man smiling at a stray dog in the rain" leads me to believe, that this is meant to come from the mind of a mad man, who is waiting on the coming death, and looking at all the different fabled signs that could point to it.
All elements of death coming around. You have the black bird tapping on the window, a reference on lore to someone going to die. You have mention of the midnight train, yet another reference to coming death. Last but not least, mad shriekin' woman (banshee) also a well know lady like figure, with her scream comes death.
The line that is left to question is the one that starts off each verse. Is this demon a feeling he has suppressed within himself that has drove him to insanity? "Sick man smiling at a stray dog in the rain" leads me to believe, that this is meant to come from the mind of a mad man, who is waiting on the coming death, and looking at all the different fabled signs that could point to it.