"She threw a fit,
Now she's got a brick house
There's no children in it"
...
"Rented out a family
She/he bought a bride"
"Coming down the aisle while the horns play taps
Tied her up and laid her on the train tracks"
Almost like a damsel in distress. Seems to me like he's commenting on this idea society projects about how you have to find your soulmate and get married. "He bought a bride" meaning she married him because of wealth and because of the future he could have provided her. She might as well have died, or "Come down the aisle while the horns played taps/" Or, she might as well be tied to train tracks.
Seems to me like he's saying if you get married to this one person, if you believe in this idea that spending your one life with this one person, you might as well die. I feel like he had a real bad relationship and lost the girl to a guy and it made him feel this way.
But, the other explanation is really good. I think monogamy has a place in this song. A bad place.
The guy who posted about it being about the bride between the character and church seems about right.
However, I always thought this was a song about Jesse's feelings towards monogamy.
I believe this is the first time he played the song live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvpXdKx850o
There is clearly a girl in the song.
In this version,
"She threw a fit, Now she's got a brick house There's no children in it"
...
"Rented out a family She/he bought a bride"
"Coming down the aisle while the horns play taps Tied her up and laid her on the train tracks"
Almost like a damsel in distress. Seems to me like he's commenting on this idea society projects about how you have to find your soulmate and get married. "He bought a bride" meaning she married him because of wealth and because of the future he could have provided her. She might as well have died, or "Come down the aisle while the horns played taps/" Or, she might as well be tied to train tracks.
Seems to me like he's saying if you get married to this one person, if you believe in this idea that spending your one life with this one person, you might as well die. I feel like he had a real bad relationship and lost the girl to a guy and it made him feel this way.
But, the other explanation is really good. I think monogamy has a place in this song. A bad place.