Okay, I'll give this a try, since it's a gorgeous song and people need to try and pick at it...
I agree with blue.painted.tears that this is about some kind of destructive relationship. (For convience's sake, the narrator's maybe writing about a lover, so I'll just use 'he'.) He traps her in a cage with his charm and puts her in a coffin. Generally, he's stunting her. She also talks about walking into a dagger (the title's 'Dagger', too). I get the feeling that she's saying she realizes she's no longer the same person because of this relationship, that he's killed her (the coffin works with this, too). Even though she goes through her life, she feels stunted and dead inside. It seems like he left her, but she still feels trapped by his treatment of her, or her feelings for him ("please walk back to me"). Obviously he thinks of her as unimportant, since he watched her fall and kept walking on.
I don't get much of the rest... especially the end, and eespecially the three kings reference. I agree that it's probably biblical, but I can't think of what it means. I just think of their giving gifts, and I can't piece that in here. Maybe she needs something from him? It's kind of a stretch.
Okay, I'll give this a try, since it's a gorgeous song and people need to try and pick at it...
I agree with blue.painted.tears that this is about some kind of destructive relationship. (For convience's sake, the narrator's maybe writing about a lover, so I'll just use 'he'.) He traps her in a cage with his charm and puts her in a coffin. Generally, he's stunting her. She also talks about walking into a dagger (the title's 'Dagger', too). I get the feeling that she's saying she realizes she's no longer the same person because of this relationship, that he's killed her (the coffin works with this, too). Even though she goes through her life, she feels stunted and dead inside. It seems like he left her, but she still feels trapped by his treatment of her, or her feelings for him ("please walk back to me"). Obviously he thinks of her as unimportant, since he watched her fall and kept walking on.
I don't get much of the rest... especially the end, and eespecially the three kings reference. I agree that it's probably biblical, but I can't think of what it means. I just think of their giving gifts, and I can't piece that in here. Maybe she needs something from him? It's kind of a stretch.