What He Wrote

I feel like I might be reaching too far with my interpretation, but this is how I see it:\nIt\'s about a woman that didn\'t want her husband to go to war and now doesn\'t recognise him anymore. He\'s not the husband she married, but still has to be faithful to him. She\'s trying to resist to run into the arms of the man who\'s writing to her.\nThe whole song gives me the feeling that she views war as a sin, no matter what side you\'re on.\n\n"He cut out my tongue,\nThere is nothing to save.\nLove me, oh Lord. He threw me away,"\n\nShe didn\'t want her husband to go to war, but he blatantly ingnored her opinion. She feels trown away, her opinion was not important.\n\n"Her skin is white\nAnd I\'m light as the Sun,\nSo holy light shines, on the things, you have done."\n\nHer skin is white because she\'s dead, a casualty of the war.\nI\'m light as the sun, might refer to the fact that he\'s fighting to protect his wife, to protect their home. He might feel that he\'s doing the right thing for the right cause. \nThe end justifies the means, so that is the holy light that shines on the things he has done.\n\n"How did he learn,\nTo hold fruit in his hands?"\n\nThe fruit is most often interpreted as temptation, but I think that in this context it\'s just sin. How did he become a man that sins so easily? That does these horrible things in the war?\n\n"And where is the lamb that gave you your name?"\n\nA lamb can also be seen as different things, but it may mean his innocence.\nHe lost his innocence when he left.\n\n"Left me alone, when I needed the light.\nFell to my knees and I wept for my life.\nIf he had of stayed, you might understand.\nIf he had of stayed, you never would\'ve taken my hand."\n\nShe feels that if her husband had stayed, she would still have her normal life. He would still be the same man she married and she wouldn\'t be this broken.\nShe wouldn\'t have felt the need te turn to another man.\n\nIn the next alinea she emphasises again how hard she fought to keep him with her and how hurt she is that he disregarded her.\n\n"We write.\nThat\'s all right.\nI miss his smell."\n\nWriting another man is not a sin. That\'s not being unfaithful, so that all right.\nI miss his smell does indicate that she had an affair with him.\nThat is why she asks Hera for forgiveness multiple times.\n\n"He laughed at my sins, in his arms I must stay."\n\nThis line makes me think that her husband knows of the affair, but doesn\'t really care? He laughed at her sins can only mean that she doesn\'t mean as much to him as before the war. They may now be two strangers in a marriage, but he\'s still unwilling to let her go. Or divorce was just not an option in that time.