It is about addiction, the “heinous law of an endless love” and how we convince ourselves at first that the behavior is justified, dealing with “high moral spires” but ultimately the “vices won’t hold you”. The addiction will turn on you, “bid you obey and obey” and although you know it is your fault, your “foot in [your] shoe” and realize it is destroying your life, killing “everything in [your] charge”, you will continue to “obey the heinous law of an endless love that governs your poor heart”.
It is about addiction, the “heinous law of an endless love” and how we convince ourselves at first that the behavior is justified, dealing with “high moral spires” but ultimately the “vices won’t hold you”. The addiction will turn on you, “bid you obey and obey” and although you know it is your fault, your “foot in [your] shoe” and realize it is destroying your life, killing “everything in [your] charge”, you will continue to “obey the heinous law of an endless love that governs your poor heart”.