"You asked the butcher, Lifted up his cleaver,Stuck his fist up your dress,Said he must've been mad to leave you."
The latter "must've been mad to leave you", it is ambiguous as to whether he or she lifts the cleaver, but i am taking it that SHE does (Which means she is getting angry by this part of the song...perhaps enough to visit an old lover, unless it means she is saying it to the butcher ;).
His view point, she "died of boredom" in relation to the content of his intellectual 'milestones'. I think it's that she doesn't get him (Nick...the character...whatever) in some way (We as an audience don't either....just picking at Auden and Sappho...picking through his past ).
At the end a simple message of 'goodness' that has otherwise officially been bastardized in alot of ways (His view of an americanised god...far removed from the baseline message in relevance to the 'laws of love'. There is a war, or what i think might also involve a holy war, perhaps personally within a relationship yet i get the feeling much more, encapsulating the world?)
He is almost mocking himself saying even though he has looked into all the 'intellectual' figureheads he has kind of abandoned it anyway because he believes something else He is playful and apathetic somehow, whilst still saying that "Love is the law". Ironically 'Hiding all away' in the tracklisting is after 'Cannibals Hymn'...so i don't know anymore. I give up! .
"You asked the butcher, Lifted up his cleaver,Stuck his fist up your dress,Said he must've been mad to leave you."
The latter "must've been mad to leave you", it is ambiguous as to whether he or she lifts the cleaver, but i am taking it that SHE does (Which means she is getting angry by this part of the song...perhaps enough to visit an old lover, unless it means she is saying it to the butcher ;).
His view point, she "died of boredom" in relation to the content of his intellectual 'milestones'. I think it's that she doesn't get him (Nick...the character...whatever) in some way (We as an audience don't either....just picking at Auden and Sappho...picking through his past ).
At the end a simple message of 'goodness' that has otherwise officially been bastardized in alot of ways (His view of an americanised god...far removed from the baseline message in relevance to the 'laws of love'. There is a war, or what i think might also involve a holy war, perhaps personally within a relationship yet i get the feeling much more, encapsulating the world?)
He is almost mocking himself saying even though he has looked into all the 'intellectual' figureheads he has kind of abandoned it anyway because he believes something else He is playful and apathetic somehow, whilst still saying that "Love is the law". Ironically 'Hiding all away' in the tracklisting is after 'Cannibals Hymn'...so i don't know anymore. I give up! .