It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Crane42 

Cover art for It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus) lyrics by Arcade Fire

Win is Orpheus, Regine is Eurydice.

The story of Orpheus is about a musician who travels to the underworld to rescue his wife, but he turns to look back at her too soon and she's sucked back into Hades.

I think "It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)" and "Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice)" connect in a way with the next track: "Porno." The first two are very romantic and dramatic and reference great mythical stories of rescue- whereas the last is about the narrator's helpless anger about his wife being objectified and mocked for her gender. He can't rescue her- there's no Hades for him to descend into and then try to escape from. There's just a bunch of assholes whose vocabulary consists mostly of wolf-whistling and "nice tits!" It's a painfully mundane problem that can't really be solved.