(Track 11 from the album The Sparrow and the Crow)
The plea of remorse; he has apologized by every means he that he can except to his ex-wife directly. He hopes that she will cherish what was enough so that at some point in mortality or beyond he will be able to deliver his apology.
The line “I haven’t seen you for over a year. I heard you were married; the baby you carried isn't mine,” is intriguing. Is the child his, and the new husband has assumed the roll of father; or is the child not his, and it turns out that she was unfaithful too?
I'm pretty sure that he just means she had a baby with another man. It's been 16 months since he saw her. Nothing in this album really shows that she has been unfaithful too.
I'm pretty sure that he just means she had a baby with another man. It's been 16 months since he saw her. Nothing in this album really shows that she has been unfaithful too.
I think that it is saying that the baby is another man's but it's still more complicated than that.
I think that it is saying that the baby is another man's but it's still more complicated than that.
In "Just Not Each Other" he says he "…lost you forever. There's flesh in you, won't know her father." So we can understand that he initially thought it was his, which leads to questions regarding her actions.
In "Just Not Each Other" he says he "…lost you forever. There's flesh in you, won't know her father." So we can understand that he initially thought it was his, which leads to questions regarding her actions.
In "After Afterall" he sings "please don't keep me" while the female vocalist sings "please don't leave me," which may be significant as he does utilize female vocals significantly in the very next song "I Don't Feel It Anymore."...
In "After Afterall" he sings "please don't keep me" while the female vocalist sings "please don't leave me," which may be significant as he does utilize female vocals significantly in the very next song "I Don't Feel It Anymore."
In "Please Forgive Me" he leaves her "out at sea … to plea," and while the next section can be seen as him begging for forgiveness it can also be seen as what she was left to plead for … his forgiveness.
We know from "Further From You" that he feels he "was wrong" and he "wasted half of [her] life, both of [their] lives," which can be placed wholly as his fault or just him placing all the blame on himself unfairly which is reinforced with "Even Now" when he sings "whose side should I take when both of us were wrong, when we both share the blame."
However, this seems to be contradicted in "You Still Hurt Me" when he says that she was "perfect" and he was "just a creep," something he's lost friends over: "there are friends who never call me anymore." Regardless, "[she] still hurt [him]."
So all together I think it's a complicated situation, at the very least a complicated record left for the listener to interpret. There's a lot in the album to take into consideration, much more than I included.
(Track 11 from the album The Sparrow and the Crow)
The plea of remorse; he has apologized by every means he that he can except to his ex-wife directly. He hopes that she will cherish what was enough so that at some point in mortality or beyond he will be able to deliver his apology.
The line “I haven’t seen you for over a year. I heard you were married; the baby you carried isn't mine,” is intriguing. Is the child his, and the new husband has assumed the roll of father; or is the child not his, and it turns out that she was unfaithful too?
I'm pretty sure that he just means she had a baby with another man. It's been 16 months since he saw her. Nothing in this album really shows that she has been unfaithful too.
I'm pretty sure that he just means she had a baby with another man. It's been 16 months since he saw her. Nothing in this album really shows that she has been unfaithful too.
I think that it is saying that the baby is another man's but it's still more complicated than that.
I think that it is saying that the baby is another man's but it's still more complicated than that.
In "Just Not Each Other" he says he "…lost you forever. There's flesh in you, won't know her father." So we can understand that he initially thought it was his, which leads to questions regarding her actions.
In "Just Not Each Other" he says he "…lost you forever. There's flesh in you, won't know her father." So we can understand that he initially thought it was his, which leads to questions regarding her actions.
In "After Afterall" he sings "please don't keep me" while the female vocalist sings "please don't leave me," which may be significant as he does utilize female vocals significantly in the very next song "I Don't Feel It Anymore."...
In "After Afterall" he sings "please don't keep me" while the female vocalist sings "please don't leave me," which may be significant as he does utilize female vocals significantly in the very next song "I Don't Feel It Anymore."
In "Please Forgive Me" he leaves her "out at sea … to plea," and while the next section can be seen as him begging for forgiveness it can also be seen as what she was left to plead for … his forgiveness.
We know from "Further From You" that he feels he "was wrong" and he "wasted half of [her] life, both of [their] lives," which can be placed wholly as his fault or just him placing all the blame on himself unfairly which is reinforced with "Even Now" when he sings "whose side should I take when both of us were wrong, when we both share the blame."
However, this seems to be contradicted in "You Still Hurt Me" when he says that she was "perfect" and he was "just a creep," something he's lost friends over: "there are friends who never call me anymore." Regardless, "[she] still hurt [him]."
So all together I think it's a complicated situation, at the very least a complicated record left for the listener to interpret. There's a lot in the album to take into consideration, much more than I included.