Agree that this is a continuation of Matterhorn, disagree she was a suicide. Mountain climbing is ridiculously difficult claiming hundreds of lives each year and the rule, cold as it may be, is that the dead do not burden the living... In other words, people are left where they died. Climbers often leave notes in the pockets of those who died as the narrator in Matterhorn does, his tears freezing as he descends leaving her up there.
In this song he continues to live, hard as it may be, always reminded of her by his view of the mountain that claimed her life...
Agree that this is a continuation of Matterhorn, disagree she was a suicide. Mountain climbing is ridiculously difficult claiming hundreds of lives each year and the rule, cold as it may be, is that the dead do not burden the living... In other words, people are left where they died. Climbers often leave notes in the pockets of those who died as the narrator in Matterhorn does, his tears freezing as he descends leaving her up there.
In this song he continues to live, hard as it may be, always reminded of her by his view of the mountain that claimed her life...