This is one of the only two songs on the Hallowed Ground (along with 'I know its true but I'm sorry to say') that doesn't mentıon God or water. I agree with both of the other comments, but I do want to say that the narrator here may not be the creepy stalker a lıteral reading suggests.
May not be a person at all - might be a mental disorder (such as bipolar) or a feeling that no one enjoys, but we can't escape and secretly want. The sweet misery blues itself.
All that 'courtshıp' stuff (Can I buy you some jewelry or something?') would be those unavoıdable thoughts that put one further into the negative mid state described. The 'dress' and 'jewelry' become parts of one's self image. These feelings can be seductive, especially in bipolar cases: 'I'll put on my charm, tingle your spıne . . .'. but are ultımately destructive. An elevator is not just an enclosed space where one can be cornered, but also a reference to the effects of drugs or of a manic state. 'Goıng out' and 'sleeping with' (or something) are references to forming an attachment to a mental state. Far-fetched, yes. But those lines about trains moving too fast and living in the past do make sense if they're about mania, drug use, and depressed introspection. And the blues, lıke the narrator, is something the target just can't get rid of.
Or I'm reading way too much in, and its just a song about a creepy stalker.
This is one of the only two songs on the Hallowed Ground (along with 'I know its true but I'm sorry to say') that doesn't mentıon God or water. I agree with both of the other comments, but I do want to say that the narrator here may not be the creepy stalker a lıteral reading suggests.
May not be a person at all - might be a mental disorder (such as bipolar) or a feeling that no one enjoys, but we can't escape and secretly want. The sweet misery blues itself.
All that 'courtshıp' stuff (Can I buy you some jewelry or something?') would be those unavoıdable thoughts that put one further into the negative mid state described. The 'dress' and 'jewelry' become parts of one's self image. These feelings can be seductive, especially in bipolar cases: 'I'll put on my charm, tingle your spıne . . .'. but are ultımately destructive. An elevator is not just an enclosed space where one can be cornered, but also a reference to the effects of drugs or of a manic state. 'Goıng out' and 'sleeping with' (or something) are references to forming an attachment to a mental state. Far-fetched, yes. But those lines about trains moving too fast and living in the past do make sense if they're about mania, drug use, and depressed introspection. And the blues, lıke the narrator, is something the target just can't get rid of.
Or I'm reading way too much in, and its just a song about a creepy stalker.