I love this song but it is clearly a parody of bourgeois sentimentality. It is about a rape followed by a murder-suicide.
"I laid you down on the grass of a clearing You wept but your soul was willing"
You wept but your soul was willing? Really?
I'm not sure how that can be interpreted as anything other than a rape, even though the song is disguised as a romantic tragedy.
It is clearly sung by a classic "unreliable narrator."
I love this song but it is clearly a parody of bourgeois sentimentality. It is about a rape followed by a murder-suicide.
"I laid you down on the grass of a clearing You wept but your soul was willing"
You wept but your soul was willing? Really?
I'm not sure how that can be interpreted as anything other than a rape, even though the song is disguised as a romantic tragedy.
It is clearly sung by a classic "unreliable narrator."