You guys! Eureka moment! I was just listening to Is Is (mmmm, can never get enough of that EP) and it struck me:
Witches. Maybe. Right? Am I alone? Figuratively, as in witch = bad person. The obvious:
"10x10, 3x3
Was the house that buried me
Did I really drown?"
The house that buried her...? As in, The Wicked Witch of the East? Wizard of Oz? Anyone? Plus, we've all learned that one of the tests in the witch trials was to see whether or not someone drowns. If you don't, you're a witch. Ya know? Makes sense, right?
"Ten wives tearing up my leisure
Pressing little mouths going to talk my way
Going to talk my way"
She's done something to be convicted of being a witch - to steal from earlier comments, sleep with these ten wives husbands?
"Three nails pounded in the front door
Start a few fires and end my stay"
I remember reading somewhere (don't know where) as a kid about pounding nails into wood (a tree, in the story, I believe) killing a witch. Falling together, right? And "start a few fires" - burn her at the stake, thus "end[ing] her stay"? Please tell me I'm not alone.
Some of the other lyrics I can't quite figure out (the dogs and seashore, "stolen my wife/knife"), but I felt this revelation was too good to pass up. Any opinions?
You guys! Eureka moment! I was just listening to Is Is (mmmm, can never get enough of that EP) and it struck me:
Witches. Maybe. Right? Am I alone? Figuratively, as in witch = bad person. The obvious:
"10x10, 3x3 Was the house that buried me Did I really drown?"
The house that buried her...? As in, The Wicked Witch of the East? Wizard of Oz? Anyone? Plus, we've all learned that one of the tests in the witch trials was to see whether or not someone drowns. If you don't, you're a witch. Ya know? Makes sense, right?
"Ten wives tearing up my leisure Pressing little mouths going to talk my way Going to talk my way"
She's done something to be convicted of being a witch - to steal from earlier comments, sleep with these ten wives husbands?
"Three nails pounded in the front door Start a few fires and end my stay"
I remember reading somewhere (don't know where) as a kid about pounding nails into wood (a tree, in the story, I believe) killing a witch. Falling together, right? And "start a few fires" - burn her at the stake, thus "end[ing] her stay"? Please tell me I'm not alone.
Some of the other lyrics I can't quite figure out (the dogs and seashore, "stolen my wife/knife"), but I felt this revelation was too good to pass up. Any opinions?