First of all this is one of the best examples of song writing I've seen in so long. I'm going out on a limb here with what I got from this.. I feel like its a satirical representation sorts talking about rape from the viewpoint of the rapist. I feel like if it was about cheating, the description of "you should have seen her eyes wide at the sight of my hands ripping apart those vows" wouldn't be so harsh. And the last line of the chorus is sort of like mockery, because it's like, this is what he's doing to this poor girl, but from the rapists perspective it's just "Lady, this is meant to be." (Which I also love the informality of 'lady' taken in the context that I understood from it.. completely genius.) In the second verse, talking about staring in the mirror and wondering who is staring back, maybe the rapist is finally starting to think "I wonder who this woman is, what she has going for her in her life, who I am hurting by hurting her." So he kills her and buries her (though I'm not sure who 'him' is referring to?) and then crawls back to his lair relieved of any guilt, goes back to getting high, and staring at the same static tv, still being smothered by lust and violence (both of which the color red represent.)
First of all this is one of the best examples of song writing I've seen in so long. I'm going out on a limb here with what I got from this.. I feel like its a satirical representation sorts talking about rape from the viewpoint of the rapist. I feel like if it was about cheating, the description of "you should have seen her eyes wide at the sight of my hands ripping apart those vows" wouldn't be so harsh. And the last line of the chorus is sort of like mockery, because it's like, this is what he's doing to this poor girl, but from the rapists perspective it's just "Lady, this is meant to be." (Which I also love the informality of 'lady' taken in the context that I understood from it.. completely genius.) In the second verse, talking about staring in the mirror and wondering who is staring back, maybe the rapist is finally starting to think "I wonder who this woman is, what she has going for her in her life, who I am hurting by hurting her." So he kills her and buries her (though I'm not sure who 'him' is referring to?) and then crawls back to his lair relieved of any guilt, goes back to getting high, and staring at the same static tv, still being smothered by lust and violence (both of which the color red represent.)