I tried to find out more about the Phrygian Lion, but not much came up, just that lions accompanied the Phrygian mother goddess Cybele, and that there are a lot of gates flanked by stone lions in Phrygia (in modern day Turkey). But historically, lions have symbolized protection, and that these lions have "excellent eyesight" seem to mean that they can foresee the future, i.e. that the relationship will end.
"But I wish you could've warned me
Of the Phrygian Lion,
With his excellent eyesight,
At the gate of our love."
He's saying he wished he could have known that their relationship would end the way it did.
"And the Phrygian Lion,
With his excellent eyesight,
Is what makes it our love."
And yet, this imminent end is what gives meaning to the relationship and makes it, in a way, more special than if they were meant to last. It's a sad but still beautiful sort of doomed love:
"Under sweet autumnal skins is our myth dispelled.
In your strange and simple way."
I tried to find out more about the Phrygian Lion, but not much came up, just that lions accompanied the Phrygian mother goddess Cybele, and that there are a lot of gates flanked by stone lions in Phrygia (in modern day Turkey). But historically, lions have symbolized protection, and that these lions have "excellent eyesight" seem to mean that they can foresee the future, i.e. that the relationship will end.
"But I wish you could've warned me Of the Phrygian Lion, With his excellent eyesight, At the gate of our love." He's saying he wished he could have known that their relationship would end the way it did.
"And the Phrygian Lion, With his excellent eyesight, Is what makes it our love." And yet, this imminent end is what gives meaning to the relationship and makes it, in a way, more special than if they were meant to last. It's a sad but still beautiful sort of doomed love: "Under sweet autumnal skins is our myth dispelled. In your strange and simple way."