This song strikes me as being about a woman who learns her partner is actually a transsexual. He 'comes out' after getting her pregnant, and leaves her, and she goes to a priest. Despite the priests offer to look after her and the baby (the issue of her worm) gets an "unofficial" abortion (the hardened metal spoon) but still stays with the priest. The transsexual confronts her about the abortion, and she taunts the man (saying she's severed the last link between them), and mocks his "female fashions and working class moustache" (literally: He wants to be a woman, but he's biologically a man).
The man starts a sex change (woman's education), whilst the women stays with the priest who she doesn't love but at least he provides for her (he's just some boy, giving her soul an empty room, and her body joy).
This song strikes me as being about a woman who learns her partner is actually a transsexual. He 'comes out' after getting her pregnant, and leaves her, and she goes to a priest. Despite the priests offer to look after her and the baby (the issue of her worm) gets an "unofficial" abortion (the hardened metal spoon) but still stays with the priest. The transsexual confronts her about the abortion, and she taunts the man (saying she's severed the last link between them), and mocks his "female fashions and working class moustache" (literally: He wants to be a woman, but he's biologically a man).
The man starts a sex change (woman's education), whilst the women stays with the priest who she doesn't love but at least he provides for her (he's just some boy, giving her soul an empty room, and her body joy).