It's interesting that the song is called Esmerelda or Esmeralda. It could be in honor of a girl he once knew, but not many Girls are named Esmerelda that I know of.
It makes me wonder if he's maybe not drawing Inspiration from the Esmerelda of Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
The story of the relationship between both Lovers in the song is not at all like the story of Esmeralda and Quasimodo, but a certain Leitmotiv can be drawn as a comparison:
Esmeralda died executed and Quasimodo found her in a communal pit and stayed by her side until he himself died next to her corpse.
"black sea, the Monster killed the melody you loved" the book continuously makes questions about who the true Monster is because Quasimodo clearly is seen as such in every context and yet characters that are seen as righteous like Frollo and Febo prove to be the real Monsters of the story.
The last Strophe is where I can make the biggest comparison:
Blinded, now I see that death
moves amongst us
And with such ease
Arrived to surround us
These silent beats
are hard to bear
He knows death is coming for him, it's surrounding him. He welcomes it, as the silent beats of his heart are hard to hear, which means he doesn't want his heart to Keep on beating.
This is Quasimodo finding Esmeralda in a communal pit and staying by the side of her corpse, because he wants to die by her. Further exemplified in the next verse:
Lonely
oh no not me
I have a grave to dig
fast moving feet
He won't be lonely, he will be busy digging his own grave and hers. Dying by her side.
You gave me light
Where it once was gone
I made a bed where you don't belong
Esmeralda was the only woman who ever showed Quasimodo mercy. He kidnapped her twice, once because Frollo forced him to, the second to save her. She gave him hope, but he couldn't stop her death. He expected she would be safe with him in the church of Notre Dame, but she didn't belong there. Neither of them did.
It's interesting that the song is called Esmerelda or Esmeralda. It could be in honor of a girl he once knew, but not many Girls are named Esmerelda that I know of.
It makes me wonder if he's maybe not drawing Inspiration from the Esmerelda of Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
The story of the relationship between both Lovers in the song is not at all like the story of Esmeralda and Quasimodo, but a certain Leitmotiv can be drawn as a comparison:
Esmeralda died executed and Quasimodo found her in a communal pit and stayed by her side until he himself died next to her corpse.
"black sea, the Monster killed the melody you loved" the book continuously makes questions about who the true Monster is because Quasimodo clearly is seen as such in every context and yet characters that are seen as righteous like Frollo and Febo prove to be the real Monsters of the story.
The last Strophe is where I can make the biggest comparison:
Blinded, now I see that death moves amongst us And with such ease Arrived to surround us These silent beats are hard to bear
He knows death is coming for him, it's surrounding him. He welcomes it, as the silent beats of his heart are hard to hear, which means he doesn't want his heart to Keep on beating.
This is Quasimodo finding Esmeralda in a communal pit and staying by the side of her corpse, because he wants to die by her. Further exemplified in the next verse:
Lonely oh no not me I have a grave to dig fast moving feet
He won't be lonely, he will be busy digging his own grave and hers. Dying by her side.
You gave me light Where it once was gone I made a bed where you don't belong
Esmeralda was the only woman who ever showed Quasimodo mercy. He kidnapped her twice, once because Frollo forced him to, the second to save her. She gave him hope, but he couldn't stop her death. He expected she would be safe with him in the church of Notre Dame, but she didn't belong there. Neither of them did.
It's just a thought, but it's interesting.