The first verse eludes to a rich or powerful person heading to work in the back of a limo, woks in a high rise, busy day, finally time to go home, unhappy or apathetic about his job, he is depressed. He listens to the radio...
But here is where there is something different. I don't think he and his beloved are married yet. I think they are living together in a forbidden relationship. One that has serious issues. One is living with the other out of need, the other, in love is desperate for reciprocation. They sit over dinner and, like the other reader said, they find a common amusing situation (something small falls out of your mouth and we laugh) but that is the small glimmer of light that night (pray for something better)
That night they are watching the invasion of their country, or possibly footage of a war where their countrymen fell, watching the patriots get shot. Perhaps they are watching footage of a war where the father was killed, and then a flashback to receiving the body of their father.
The pain of losing a parent never dies and the most simple things can trigger a memory and lead to depression.
Caressing an old man, painting the face... a mortuary and the preparation of the body.
New meat - soldiers are commonly referred to as this when they first engage in battle.
Yellow moon, the plunge taken just before death and movement into the next form of life. The soldiers closing in may be the haunting of the memory of the father's death and the yellow moon symbolizing the knowledge of what the person is about to do (commit suicide)
All shadows and deliverance... Clouded judgement and release of pain.
Under a black flag - the black flag symbolizes resistance, the opposition of repression (of the pain) and then of course, the ribbon slipping around the neck is the suicide...
I didn't explain it all, but thats all I could get from it... what do you think?
I agree somewhat with other postings here.
The first verse eludes to a rich or powerful person heading to work in the back of a limo, woks in a high rise, busy day, finally time to go home, unhappy or apathetic about his job, he is depressed. He listens to the radio...
But here is where there is something different. I don't think he and his beloved are married yet. I think they are living together in a forbidden relationship. One that has serious issues. One is living with the other out of need, the other, in love is desperate for reciprocation. They sit over dinner and, like the other reader said, they find a common amusing situation (something small falls out of your mouth and we laugh) but that is the small glimmer of light that night (pray for something better)
That night they are watching the invasion of their country, or possibly footage of a war where their countrymen fell, watching the patriots get shot. Perhaps they are watching footage of a war where the father was killed, and then a flashback to receiving the body of their father.
The pain of losing a parent never dies and the most simple things can trigger a memory and lead to depression.
Caressing an old man, painting the face... a mortuary and the preparation of the body.
New meat - soldiers are commonly referred to as this when they first engage in battle.
Yellow moon, the plunge taken just before death and movement into the next form of life. The soldiers closing in may be the haunting of the memory of the father's death and the yellow moon symbolizing the knowledge of what the person is about to do (commit suicide)
All shadows and deliverance... Clouded judgement and release of pain.
Under a black flag - the black flag symbolizes resistance, the opposition of repression (of the pain) and then of course, the ribbon slipping around the neck is the suicide...
I didn't explain it all, but thats all I could get from it... what do you think?
JFK