Yeah, you can read "tell her I'm done" as the end of a relationship. Or it could be something more interesting than that...
The language in this song is so interesting. It has a grandeur - "lair," "wind and sand", blood and silver, and so on. It all makes me think of a gangster movie.
So I'm reading it as a guy who stole from the mob (silver in hand), a hit man was sent to kill him in his "lair," but he killed the hit man (blood on my lips.) But he knows he's never going to be safe, so he leaves home to wander. And can't even take the risk of telling his girl that he's gone, or they'll come after her. He's "done" - either he knows he's already dead, or he just knows the life he's led up to this point is over.
Yeah, you can read "tell her I'm done" as the end of a relationship. Or it could be something more interesting than that...
The language in this song is so interesting. It has a grandeur - "lair," "wind and sand", blood and silver, and so on. It all makes me think of a gangster movie.
So I'm reading it as a guy who stole from the mob (silver in hand), a hit man was sent to kill him in his "lair," but he killed the hit man (blood on my lips.) But he knows he's never going to be safe, so he leaves home to wander. And can't even take the risk of telling his girl that he's gone, or they'll come after her. He's "done" - either he knows he's already dead, or he just knows the life he's led up to this point is over.