Fountain Lyrics

Lyric discussion by SpadeKing 

Cover art for Fountain lyrics by PJ Harvey

I'm thinking it's about Rebekah at the well. I've been doing this all night. Oh My Lover (either Rachel or Sarai), O Stella (Virgin Mary), Dress (?), Victory (Jael or Joan of Arc), Happy and Bleeding (Eve), Sheela-Na-Gig (Salome), Hair (Delilah), Joe (Mary Magdalene), Plants and Rags (Leah or Hagar), Fountain (Rebekah), Water (I read a story about a girl who walks out on ice, falls in, and gets decapitated but I can't remember her name and I can't find the story again for some reason)...I really didn't know the bible before tonight, but now I feel rather educated on it hahaha.

My Interpretation

PJ Harvey is secretly a genius.

Correction Water is Salome...i don't know who Sheela-Na-Gig is now.

@SpadeKing Herod had been defeated in battle and was exiled by Aretas. Salome also reportedly decided to join Herod and Herodias in exile rather than be alone. The emperor had sent them to Spain and as she was passing over a frozen river, the ice broke and she sank in up to her neck and died.