I find this song very touching. It gives the impression a well-balanced marriage of authenticity and poetry. It's sad and powerful.
For me, the narrator speaks about a relationship with an unsecure partner, which is full of intense love but also devastating conflicts, and how he tries to handle it.
Over and over again they get into a conflict and she attacks (releases her dogs upon him, and sails her ships around him). She fights. And over and over again she intentionally inflicts severe damage so that there is no way back (burns her bridges). And the man just can't understand this behaviour, hence she (or rather this very destructive behaviour) is a mystery to him. She fights and she flees.
When they finally calm down and reach out to each other after one of their terrible conflicts, they speak about all the violence. He tells her about things being said and done that he just can't accept or forgive. And she does the same. They define their moral ground. But then they hug and kiss and he forgives her without anything being solved. And so it goes on.
The part of him cutting her wings off is enigmatic. It seems as she has fought and fled repeatedly but now somehow they have agreed on something that will inable her to continue with that behaviour. Medicine? Treatment? A promise? But if so why would he encourage her to try to fly? And why is she sad?
In the end he adored her. And he really wanted make it work but he wasn't able.
I find this song very touching. It gives the impression a well-balanced marriage of authenticity and poetry. It's sad and powerful.
For me, the narrator speaks about a relationship with an unsecure partner, which is full of intense love but also devastating conflicts, and how he tries to handle it.
Over and over again they get into a conflict and she attacks (releases her dogs upon him, and sails her ships around him). She fights. And over and over again she intentionally inflicts severe damage so that there is no way back (burns her bridges). And the man just can't understand this behaviour, hence she (or rather this very destructive behaviour) is a mystery to him. She fights and she flees.
When they finally calm down and reach out to each other after one of their terrible conflicts, they speak about all the violence. He tells her about things being said and done that he just can't accept or forgive. And she does the same. They define their moral ground. But then they hug and kiss and he forgives her without anything being solved. And so it goes on.
The part of him cutting her wings off is enigmatic. It seems as she has fought and fled repeatedly but now somehow they have agreed on something that will inable her to continue with that behaviour. Medicine? Treatment? A promise? But if so why would he encourage her to try to fly? And why is she sad?
In the end he adored her. And he really wanted make it work but he wasn't able.