I guess the song is about a boy who is in love and is writing to a girl who is housed in a Magdalene Asylum "institutions from the 18th to the late 20th centuries ostensibly to house "fallen women", a term used to imply female sexual promiscuity or work in prostitution" -wiki
Who I suspect was forced into prostitution and/or abused by someone and she suffers from depression.
He is frustrated as she shows genuine affection for him and loses some of her depression for lack of a better phrase while she is around him but when they are apart she must be implying she is suicidal.
He tries to help by telling someone at the Asylum "school in the lyrics" but she sadly pushes him away.
Sadly I believe the girl in the song does take her own life and this is a lament, but it could also be possible she was sectioned and not allowed to see him and he has no idea of her fate. Both pretty miserable suggestions for ultimately a very pretty song.
I guess the song is about a boy who is in love and is writing to a girl who is housed in a Magdalene Asylum "institutions from the 18th to the late 20th centuries ostensibly to house "fallen women", a term used to imply female sexual promiscuity or work in prostitution" -wiki
Who I suspect was forced into prostitution and/or abused by someone and she suffers from depression.
He is frustrated as she shows genuine affection for him and loses some of her depression for lack of a better phrase while she is around him but when they are apart she must be implying she is suicidal.
He tries to help by telling someone at the Asylum "school in the lyrics" but she sadly pushes him away.
Sadly I believe the girl in the song does take her own life and this is a lament, but it could also be possible she was sectioned and not allowed to see him and he has no idea of her fate. Both pretty miserable suggestions for ultimately a very pretty song.