I was obsessed with this song for about a week this spring. It's beautiful beyond description. There is a suggestion of underlying menace in the lyrics -- Lie down, tell no one; Terrible am I child, even if you don't mind. Is he talking about some horrible event that happened in their youth? The exact meaning is elusive, and that's part of the song's appeal to me.
I was obsessed with this song for about a week this spring. It's beautiful beyond description. There is a suggestion of underlying menace in the lyrics -- Lie down, tell no one; Terrible am I child, even if you don't mind. Is he talking about some horrible event that happened in their youth? The exact meaning is elusive, and that's part of the song's appeal to me.