I don't intend this to be so much what I actually think this song is about as much as this is just me sharing a weird observation I made just now.
As it happens, I just happened to be watching a clip from the interview with Dahmer the other day, and in it he was discussing the nature of his compulsions. And, as is fairly well known, he stated that, for some reason, he felt that somehow he felt that preserving the bits of the people he was murdering he could preserve the peak of their relationship. And this made me realize, though the reality of the acts which he committed were horrifyingly reprehensible, that revelation in a light makes him into a very tragic character.
Maybe Tunde was taking some influence from Dahmer's story, I don't know, but the imagery of "kneeling above this playful body" conjures up images of a loving couple's foreplay, but at the same time the specific use of 'body', which could have been equally replaced with a word such as 'person' or 'woman', while 'body' has the inherent possible connotation of 'corpse', especially in combination with the equally potentially double-entendric line 'Dropped all your clothes and life'.
And a heart can be a soul. Or it can be a heart.
Dropping the somewhat wild premise of the psychotically misguided lover-turned-killer, this song is most certainly about the deeper underlying theme of such a premise, which is the deep-seated fear of the impending dissolution of a relationship which many of us have, and the resultant unrequited urge to somehow preserve the emotional glory of its peak.
I don't intend this to be so much what I actually think this song is about as much as this is just me sharing a weird observation I made just now.
As it happens, I just happened to be watching a clip from the interview with Dahmer the other day, and in it he was discussing the nature of his compulsions. And, as is fairly well known, he stated that, for some reason, he felt that somehow he felt that preserving the bits of the people he was murdering he could preserve the peak of their relationship. And this made me realize, though the reality of the acts which he committed were horrifyingly reprehensible, that revelation in a light makes him into a very tragic character.
Maybe Tunde was taking some influence from Dahmer's story, I don't know, but the imagery of "kneeling above this playful body" conjures up images of a loving couple's foreplay, but at the same time the specific use of 'body', which could have been equally replaced with a word such as 'person' or 'woman', while 'body' has the inherent possible connotation of 'corpse', especially in combination with the equally potentially double-entendric line 'Dropped all your clothes and life'.
And a heart can be a soul. Or it can be a heart.
Dropping the somewhat wild premise of the psychotically misguided lover-turned-killer, this song is most certainly about the deeper underlying theme of such a premise, which is the deep-seated fear of the impending dissolution of a relationship which many of us have, and the resultant unrequited urge to somehow preserve the emotional glory of its peak.
But it's totally about a psychotic murderer.
God, that was a trainwreck of words. I'm not even going to try and fix it.
God, that was a trainwreck of words. I'm not even going to try and fix it.