This music is about American history, specifically about pilgrim's arrive in Plymouth Rock.
"Once a night, Cottilion squared, the fight
and she was right in the rain of the bullets that eventually brought her down"
It's a play between Cottilian being a dance (where the pairs form a square), and between Cottilian being a girl name (square in this context being stoping the fights)
He personificate the dance as girl squaring the fights, but someday she is killed by bullets which means the dance (which may mean any form of distraction) no longer holds the tensions between the people.
That may happen in some event in pilgrims history, but I don't know so much about this part of history (I am not American by the way).
The part about Margarita is also a ambiguity about Margarita (drink) and Margarita (name), and the "You are under arrest" part shows that the narrator is drunk (maybe literally or with the girl).
Anyway this part is about girls and drinkings passions.
You can see here that the persons are not singular but represent situations, as well as the narrator represents the pilgrims.
That way the innocent girl probably means the local habitants (indians), or maybe it is the region, because in history you see that the pilgrims didn't want to go back to England.
The childrem raising part is probably about the new generations and cultures.
In the next songs you see the pilgrims exploring, seeing fields, constructing trains and transport and etc (1rst suite), gaining culture and maturing their sentiments and conscience (2nd suite) and the 3rd suite is about elements and finally reaching Hawaii (Brian Wilson himself described the album about being a trip from Plymouth to Hawaii).
This music is about American history, specifically about pilgrim's arrive in Plymouth Rock.
"Once a night, Cottilion squared, the fight and she was right in the rain of the bullets that eventually brought her down"
It's a play between Cottilian being a dance (where the pairs form a square), and between Cottilian being a girl name (square in this context being stoping the fights) He personificate the dance as girl squaring the fights, but someday she is killed by bullets which means the dance (which may mean any form of distraction) no longer holds the tensions between the people. That may happen in some event in pilgrims history, but I don't know so much about this part of history (I am not American by the way).
The part about Margarita is also a ambiguity about Margarita (drink) and Margarita (name), and the "You are under arrest" part shows that the narrator is drunk (maybe literally or with the girl). Anyway this part is about girls and drinkings passions.
You can see here that the persons are not singular but represent situations, as well as the narrator represents the pilgrims.
That way the innocent girl probably means the local habitants (indians), or maybe it is the region, because in history you see that the pilgrims didn't want to go back to England.
The childrem raising part is probably about the new generations and cultures.
In the next songs you see the pilgrims exploring, seeing fields, constructing trains and transport and etc (1rst suite), gaining culture and maturing their sentiments and conscience (2nd suite) and the 3rd suite is about elements and finally reaching Hawaii (Brian Wilson himself described the album about being a trip from Plymouth to Hawaii).