While I do appreciate the theories about this being about Lewis Carol and Alice Liddell, I think perhaps Nick is just using their names to draw on the ideas of a forbidden kind of love.
The song itself is ambiguous as to who the stalker or Alice is, though the fact that they are separated suggests some kind of forbidden love. The last lines of the song imply that the stalker knows he cannot have this woman, hence why watching her dress is so depressing.
This song really captures desire for the unattainable, and by putting us in the perspective of the stalker, we not only sympathise, but can relate to him, since everyone has craved something that they can't have at one time or another.
While I do appreciate the theories about this being about Lewis Carol and Alice Liddell, I think perhaps Nick is just using their names to draw on the ideas of a forbidden kind of love.
The song itself is ambiguous as to who the stalker or Alice is, though the fact that they are separated suggests some kind of forbidden love. The last lines of the song imply that the stalker knows he cannot have this woman, hence why watching her dress is so depressing.
This song really captures desire for the unattainable, and by putting us in the perspective of the stalker, we not only sympathise, but can relate to him, since everyone has craved something that they can't have at one time or another.