I take the description of the destruction of the world to be judgement day, the end of the world. Particularly the image of the 'ivory tower' crumbling, which connotes civilisation and privilege. The fact that he returns to 'her' infers that she is the one, the one he is meant to be with, that he will take refuge with.
If we take the 'end of the world' to be a metaphor for difficult times in our lives, times when everything falls apart- this is when he goes to the girl he loves as 'I am captured' which connotes a difficult unbalanced relationship. Perhaps he is running to her despite knowing it is the wrong thing to do.
The repetition of 'one more time' and 'once again' supports this idea that he is returning to this woman every time things go wrong, and that this is an unhealthy and destructive relationship.
Beautiful lyrics- my favourite is the 'gone are the days of rainbows/and gone are the nights of swinging from the stars'
I take the description of the destruction of the world to be judgement day, the end of the world. Particularly the image of the 'ivory tower' crumbling, which connotes civilisation and privilege. The fact that he returns to 'her' infers that she is the one, the one he is meant to be with, that he will take refuge with.
If we take the 'end of the world' to be a metaphor for difficult times in our lives, times when everything falls apart- this is when he goes to the girl he loves as 'I am captured' which connotes a difficult unbalanced relationship. Perhaps he is running to her despite knowing it is the wrong thing to do.
The repetition of 'one more time' and 'once again' supports this idea that he is returning to this woman every time things go wrong, and that this is an unhealthy and destructive relationship.
Beautiful lyrics- my favourite is the 'gone are the days of rainbows/and gone are the nights of swinging from the stars'