I don't know if anyone said it already but this song could very well be about a mother getting an abortion.
The words alternate from the perspective of the infant to the perspective of the mother.
Think about it,
Mr. Hangman = abortion doctor
daughters weren't careful = pregnant
shes trying not to say you were her worst mistake = the mother not wanting to carry through with the abortion but having to.
William Tell shot an apple off of his child's head with a bow, the phrase "drawing your bead" is used to refer to the action of pulling the string of a bow back and aiming at a target. The child is saying that he will hold still and not resist because he trusts her, through it all his mother is still the "apple of his eye".
The child constantly proclaims his love for his mother, how she'll never know how much he loves her. Leading up to the end where the child's head has been removed and placed on a silver plate(when a child is aborted the pieces removed are set on a silver-colored metal tray) and is seeing his mother for the first time, and he is smiling.
After this there is a shift to the mother's perspective. She is thinking to herself after the operation that she will never be forgiven. And that on the day she dies she will be condemned, she won't be able to call her child to let him know that she is dead. She is coming to terms with the fact that she won't ever see her baby. In this life or the next.
I don't know if anyone said it already but this song could very well be about a mother getting an abortion. The words alternate from the perspective of the infant to the perspective of the mother.
Think about it, Mr. Hangman = abortion doctor daughters weren't careful = pregnant shes trying not to say you were her worst mistake = the mother not wanting to carry through with the abortion but having to. William Tell shot an apple off of his child's head with a bow, the phrase "drawing your bead" is used to refer to the action of pulling the string of a bow back and aiming at a target. The child is saying that he will hold still and not resist because he trusts her, through it all his mother is still the "apple of his eye". The child constantly proclaims his love for his mother, how she'll never know how much he loves her. Leading up to the end where the child's head has been removed and placed on a silver plate(when a child is aborted the pieces removed are set on a silver-colored metal tray) and is seeing his mother for the first time, and he is smiling.
After this there is a shift to the mother's perspective. She is thinking to herself after the operation that she will never be forgiven. And that on the day she dies she will be condemned, she won't be able to call her child to let him know that she is dead. She is coming to terms with the fact that she won't ever see her baby. In this life or the next.
That's an interesting interpretation of the song. Hadn't thought of it that way.
That's an interesting interpretation of the song. Hadn't thought of it that way.