I agree that this song is/may have a narrator that is dead. She is also a murder. Here's my thought: this is a suicide ballad. Death can be a metaphor too if you prefer - the death is of innocence or the person that once was.
The whole fire/flood thing is like the way an initial trauma won't get you but the PTSD will. I had a dream once where I went back to an old house I had lived in during the worst year of my life. In the dream it had burned down. And the hardest part of that whole experience had been sorting through the pieces afterwards. As one does. Like a flood, ya? The sword of damocles works for me too, although I can't see a broader metaphor past my own experience.
Even if that's not what was going on in Neko's head it adds up as a song and work of art, and it is a beautiful song and poem.
I agree that this song is/may have a narrator that is dead. She is also a murder. Here's my thought: this is a suicide ballad. Death can be a metaphor too if you prefer - the death is of innocence or the person that once was.
The whole fire/flood thing is like the way an initial trauma won't get you but the PTSD will. I had a dream once where I went back to an old house I had lived in during the worst year of my life. In the dream it had burned down. And the hardest part of that whole experience had been sorting through the pieces afterwards. As one does. Like a flood, ya? The sword of damocles works for me too, although I can't see a broader metaphor past my own experience.
Even if that's not what was going on in Neko's head it adds up as a song and work of art, and it is a beautiful song and poem.