1st 2 stanzas: about a woman who had a loveless marriage, either married someone her father liked, or for money (so her father respects him). She knows he provides for her so she makes a slight effort, but it's not enough because the love just isn't there. When she dies, she has a "letter locked in the pattern of her knuckle" which I see as either being a letter clenched in her hands tightly, and the "house she was making" is her daydream, if you will, of how her life could have been if she had been with the one she loved (eg, "building castles in the sky").
2nd 2 stanzas: Here a man is in love with a woman who marries someone else, and he "died like a butterfly" - i think it killed him a bit inside so he crumpled up. He left that part of him and became just like everyone else - a buried star in a haze of lights, not noticeable.
It speaks about the soul i think, how since these people gave up/lost what they really wanted in life, they have nothing left to root their soul to. So they have become empty people.
My interpretation:
1st 2 stanzas: about a woman who had a loveless marriage, either married someone her father liked, or for money (so her father respects him). She knows he provides for her so she makes a slight effort, but it's not enough because the love just isn't there. When she dies, she has a "letter locked in the pattern of her knuckle" which I see as either being a letter clenched in her hands tightly, and the "house she was making" is her daydream, if you will, of how her life could have been if she had been with the one she loved (eg, "building castles in the sky").
2nd 2 stanzas: Here a man is in love with a woman who marries someone else, and he "died like a butterfly" - i think it killed him a bit inside so he crumpled up. He left that part of him and became just like everyone else - a buried star in a haze of lights, not noticeable.
It speaks about the soul i think, how since these people gave up/lost what they really wanted in life, they have nothing left to root their soul to. So they have become empty people.
Are you saying that the entire song is not referring to the same two people?
Are you saying that the entire song is not referring to the same two people?