Love this song -- a great metaphor surrounded by Gilmore's typically evocative lyrics.
Obviously a requiem, or more properly a dirge, considering the orchestration, but it's unclear within the lyrics whether this is for a lover, a relative, friend, or what. The question about proposing to the bedrock would seem to indicate it may be a spurned lover, since even her "fickle heart" and thorn trees grow back, but the lost dead do not.
Love this song -- a great metaphor surrounded by Gilmore's typically evocative lyrics.
Obviously a requiem, or more properly a dirge, considering the orchestration, but it's unclear within the lyrics whether this is for a lover, a relative, friend, or what. The question about proposing to the bedrock would seem to indicate it may be a spurned lover, since even her "fickle heart" and thorn trees grow back, but the lost dead do not.