Been trying to figure out this song. I agree I believe it's suicide. He is returning to say goodbye to his daughter because he is dying. The mother is dead and both he and his daughter blame him. The murder scenario doesn't make sense. He would be in prison. The ambiguity of it all, makes all the more powerful. The alternative view is he talking to his wife and it's the daughter who is dead, drowned under his watch.
Been trying to figure out this song. I agree I believe it's suicide. He is returning to say goodbye to his daughter because he is dying. The mother is dead and both he and his daughter blame him. The murder scenario doesn't make sense. He would be in prison. The ambiguity of it all, makes all the more powerful. The alternative view is he talking to his wife and it's the daughter who is dead, drowned under his watch.