I'll choose interpretation, simply because this piece is about the guilt associated with desiring freedom from something that one feels or acknowledges a certain attachment to.
The brilliance of the lyrics (and always the music) is that this song can dial in to personal relationships or even be applied to something broad like seceding the union (leading to civil war)...
The composition of this song is so well rounded and open to unique interpretation while maintaining a committed message that will resonate despite the possible interpretations.
Simply fantastic. To paraphrase and distill the message:
"I don't want to separate from this, but you're leaving me at odds for any other possible decision.
I don't want to deal with this, this isn't what I'm in it for, I require justification for my compulsion to leave, please, if we're united, I need your help.
I don't have much faith in you, and if this is justified, provide the proof I require to move on and to sever myself from it all without a single lingering feeling that I made the wrong decision. I'll be even be badguy if necessary, but only because I care.
If I didn't care, I'd need no conclusive evidence to leave for good.
I'm a good person, and because you are not, you want to enslave me by my commitment, and you care not to aid in my healing.
The decision has been made without my consent, I have been judged.
The jury is my conscience and yours.
I don't want to be the executioner, but I will."
I'll choose interpretation, simply because this piece is about the guilt associated with desiring freedom from something that one feels or acknowledges a certain attachment to.
The brilliance of the lyrics (and always the music) is that this song can dial in to personal relationships or even be applied to something broad like seceding the union (leading to civil war)...
The composition of this song is so well rounded and open to unique interpretation while maintaining a committed message that will resonate despite the possible interpretations.
Simply fantastic. To paraphrase and distill the message:
"I don't want to separate from this, but you're leaving me at odds for any other possible decision.
I don't want to deal with this, this isn't what I'm in it for, I require justification for my compulsion to leave, please, if we're united, I need your help.
I don't have much faith in you, and if this is justified, provide the proof I require to move on and to sever myself from it all without a single lingering feeling that I made the wrong decision. I'll be even be badguy if necessary, but only because I care.
If I didn't care, I'd need no conclusive evidence to leave for good.
I'm a good person, and because you are not, you want to enslave me by my commitment, and you care not to aid in my healing.
The decision has been made without my consent, I have been judged. The jury is my conscience and yours. I don't want to be the executioner, but I will."