"Hills Like White Elephants" is much more about a couple in the Lost Generation than it is about abortion. It doesn't have anything to do with this song.
Soo, I've been rereading the lyrics of this song for the last half-hour. Originally, I went with abortion--"something cold is forced inside," "she feels it die," etc. totally sounds like an abortion. But then, it doesn't fit with the rest of the song. So, as a whole, you get the picture that this girl has had a pretty shitty life. Her childhood was taken from her, so much so that Dax (or whoever wrote it) compares her to Truddi Chase. But the narrator is in the story as well, and the only thing he has to contribute about himself in the first half is "I'm getting bored."
So this guy and this chick are obviously together. He's dealing with all the horribleness of her past. Then she kills herself: "When your candle burns out, I'll resurrect you," "Surgery in the house of dissection," "When you get there will you kiss the dead for me?," "Something cold is forced inside her," "I cut myself again and again to remind myself of you," "With blood on her hands into the sun she stares," all of which are consistent with her stabbing herself. And then, with the last repetition of the chorus, he says "I met an angel with a sawed-off shotgun"--which could be her memory inspiring him to continue living a drug-filled life, or it could actually be a new woman, even more screwed up than the last, since he seemed to get bored of the last woman so quickly.
It could simply be a comment on something as trivial as relationships. When you hear hoofbeats . . .
"Hills Like White Elephants" is much more about a couple in the Lost Generation than it is about abortion. It doesn't have anything to do with this song.
Soo, I've been rereading the lyrics of this song for the last half-hour. Originally, I went with abortion--"something cold is forced inside," "she feels it die," etc. totally sounds like an abortion. But then, it doesn't fit with the rest of the song. So, as a whole, you get the picture that this girl has had a pretty shitty life. Her childhood was taken from her, so much so that Dax (or whoever wrote it) compares her to Truddi Chase. But the narrator is in the story as well, and the only thing he has to contribute about himself in the first half is "I'm getting bored."
So this guy and this chick are obviously together. He's dealing with all the horribleness of her past. Then she kills herself: "When your candle burns out, I'll resurrect you," "Surgery in the house of dissection," "When you get there will you kiss the dead for me?," "Something cold is forced inside her," "I cut myself again and again to remind myself of you," "With blood on her hands into the sun she stares," all of which are consistent with her stabbing herself. And then, with the last repetition of the chorus, he says "I met an angel with a sawed-off shotgun"--which could be her memory inspiring him to continue living a drug-filled life, or it could actually be a new woman, even more screwed up than the last, since he seemed to get bored of the last woman so quickly.
It could simply be a comment on something as trivial as relationships. When you hear hoofbeats . . .