This man was in love with a nice church girl, so they'd stroll, enjoy life go to church. The one day he feels pressured to marry her, but instead he starts taking out his anger on her, and he beats her but I think it means he begins treating her harshly when he shouldn't , maybe he says things he knows are hurting her on purpose, and then he kills her and throws her in the river, but I think this could mean he dumps her, and he runs away. He kills her heart maybe not her in the literal sense, but perhaps she only loved him and she was a church girl so he knew that him leaving her was like killing her inside. He thinks he is fine to get rid of her, and his mother sees the blood which may mean his mother sensed he had some sort of guilt, and then he had to lie to his mother about why, he makes up an excuse and his mother buys it so he feels like he is getting away with it, because nobody knows he did it, but then he compares his bed at night to being surrounded by the flames of Hell, so he is obviously tortured and can't sleep because of his own guilt because he knows the girl was innocent and he truly loved her and he knows she didn't deserve what he did to her at all, and he loves her still so he thinks he deserves to suffer now because of what he did to the one he loves. So he then says he is in prison, but I think that can mean a virtual prison, a prison of the repercussions of his own guilt and remorse, and the emptiness he likely feels without her love and company, the loneliness. He made his own bed now he is lying in it thinking about how much he loves that girl and how wrong what he did was, and how he can't ever forget it. I think he would take it back if he could, but he can't because he made sure he got rid of her. That's my interpretation. He betrayed love and his own heart and now he is in a prison of his own emptiness and loneliness and remorse haunted by the memory of her sweet love and innocence and his own mistakes that caused him to lose who he loved most I think.
This man was in love with a nice church girl, so they'd stroll, enjoy life go to church. The one day he feels pressured to marry her, but instead he starts taking out his anger on her, and he beats her but I think it means he begins treating her harshly when he shouldn't , maybe he says things he knows are hurting her on purpose, and then he kills her and throws her in the river, but I think this could mean he dumps her, and he runs away. He kills her heart maybe not her in the literal sense, but perhaps she only loved him and she was a church girl so he knew that him leaving her was like killing her inside. He thinks he is fine to get rid of her, and his mother sees the blood which may mean his mother sensed he had some sort of guilt, and then he had to lie to his mother about why, he makes up an excuse and his mother buys it so he feels like he is getting away with it, because nobody knows he did it, but then he compares his bed at night to being surrounded by the flames of Hell, so he is obviously tortured and can't sleep because of his own guilt because he knows the girl was innocent and he truly loved her and he knows she didn't deserve what he did to her at all, and he loves her still so he thinks he deserves to suffer now because of what he did to the one he loves. So he then says he is in prison, but I think that can mean a virtual prison, a prison of the repercussions of his own guilt and remorse, and the emptiness he likely feels without her love and company, the loneliness. He made his own bed now he is lying in it thinking about how much he loves that girl and how wrong what he did was, and how he can't ever forget it. I think he would take it back if he could, but he can't because he made sure he got rid of her. That's my interpretation. He betrayed love and his own heart and now he is in a prison of his own emptiness and loneliness and remorse haunted by the memory of her sweet love and innocence and his own mistakes that caused him to lose who he loved most I think.