Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this song about a guy who fell in love with the other guy who has a girlfriend, so they've cheated on her together. Then that 'hetero' guy broke up with the lyrical hero because of fear of his church's disapproval or just because of other reason, and the first guy went mad of grief and guilty, so that's why he wants to write his girl a letter and bought a gun. But I can't figure out why 'he's not home'.
Well, I don't know if it's what was meant in the lyrics, but I've always been thinking that this is what the song is about because of these lines:
I'm gonna write YOUR GIRL a letter
It'll make everything better.
Screaming down the phone line to your mom
She said, "Honey HE ain't home right now"
btw I've seen lyrics without 'he' in the previous line, but still the words about 'a letter'. If I'm totally wrong in interpretation of these mysterious lines, I'd be grateful if somebody explained why as English is not my native, thanks!
Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this song about a guy who fell in love with the other guy who has a girlfriend, so they've cheated on her together. Then that 'hetero' guy broke up with the lyrical hero because of fear of his church's disapproval or just because of other reason, and the first guy went mad of grief and guilty, so that's why he wants to write his girl a letter and bought a gun. But I can't figure out why 'he's not home'. Well, I don't know if it's what was meant in the lyrics, but I've always been thinking that this is what the song is about because of these lines:
I'm gonna write YOUR GIRL a letter It'll make everything better.
Screaming down the phone line to your mom She said, "Honey HE ain't home right now"
btw I've seen lyrics without 'he' in the previous line, but still the words about 'a letter'. If I'm totally wrong in interpretation of these mysterious lines, I'd be grateful if somebody explained why as English is not my native, thanks!