Merchant was recently asked about this song on a BBC program. She explained it was about an experience in Europe when she was "probably 20". It was about someone (who she never saw - she called the man "fictitious") in the room next to her playing opera all day. Joking she said "he drove me insane".
Interesting to know that. I have always found it a sad and deeply moving song. I think she probably developed the experience to be very much sympathetic to the man.
Interesting to know that. I have always found it a sad and deeply moving song. I think she probably developed the experience to be very much sympathetic to the man.
I saw this as being about a care home and a man left with nothing but memories, many of them sad (perhaps a lost wife or a failed romance) and an outlet for those memories in the music that allows him to relive this painful experience time and time again.
I saw this as being about a care home and a man left with nothing but memories, many of them sad (perhaps a lost wife or a failed romance) and an outlet for those memories in the music that allows him to relive this painful experience time and time again.
Merchant was recently asked about this song on a BBC program. She explained it was about an experience in Europe when she was "probably 20". It was about someone (who she never saw - she called the man "fictitious") in the room next to her playing opera all day. Joking she said "he drove me insane".
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Interesting to know that. I have always found it a sad and deeply moving song. I think she probably developed the experience to be very much sympathetic to the man.
Interesting to know that. I have always found it a sad and deeply moving song. I think she probably developed the experience to be very much sympathetic to the man.
I saw this as being about a care home and a man left with nothing but memories, many of them sad (perhaps a lost wife or a failed romance) and an outlet for those memories in the music that allows him to relive this painful experience time and time again.
I saw this as being about a care home and a man left with nothing but memories, many of them sad (perhaps a lost wife or a failed romance) and an outlet for those memories in the music that allows him to relive this painful experience time and time again.