I think AngeloKS is right! The symbolic religious hints are unmistakable: the perfect garden, the entrance of evil, the Fall, the weight of conscientiousness and loss. And, the music in the second half is borrowed directly from Arvo Part's 'Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten'. This particular musical work is all about loss and death. Part wrote it, duh haha, in memory of composer Benjamin Britten, whose music he greatly appreciated. All Music says of Part's music: "The most prominent melodic contour is a simple descending a minor scale; this descending line (...) hints at a kind of multidimensional chronology that exists only in the hereafter. The melodic voices can be read to correspond with the mortal and the eternal -a dichotomy of body and spirit." Apart from the genius trigger for this song (the elderly lady), there really is enormous depth in the lyrics and music, it expresses the deepest possible feelings between finite and infinite. Love it!
I think AngeloKS is right! The symbolic religious hints are unmistakable: the perfect garden, the entrance of evil, the Fall, the weight of conscientiousness and loss. And, the music in the second half is borrowed directly from Arvo Part's 'Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten'. This particular musical work is all about loss and death. Part wrote it, duh haha, in memory of composer Benjamin Britten, whose music he greatly appreciated. All Music says of Part's music: "The most prominent melodic contour is a simple descending a minor scale; this descending line (...) hints at a kind of multidimensional chronology that exists only in the hereafter. The melodic voices can be read to correspond with the mortal and the eternal -a dichotomy of body and spirit." Apart from the genius trigger for this song (the elderly lady), there really is enormous depth in the lyrics and music, it expresses the deepest possible feelings between finite and infinite. Love it!