Love this song. I think it speaks so well of the struggle to come to terms with the end of a relationship. The back and forth of accepting and then still not wanting the other person to go, of admitting that you are bad for them and that they should leave, but then wanting to selfishly continue the relationship anyway.
After listening many times over the years, I was thinking about the odd line "Stay with me until I sleep within your host" and then I wondered if that ties together with "Am I a pest to feed?" Is the narrator thinking that his impulse to falsely continue the relationship maks him a parasite? (feeding on the host)
Love this song. I think it speaks so well of the struggle to come to terms with the end of a relationship. The back and forth of accepting and then still not wanting the other person to go, of admitting that you are bad for them and that they should leave, but then wanting to selfishly continue the relationship anyway. After listening many times over the years, I was thinking about the odd line "Stay with me until I sleep within your host" and then I wondered if that ties together with "Am I a pest to feed?" Is the narrator thinking that his impulse to falsely continue the relationship maks him a parasite? (feeding on the host)