Tanya Donelly has stated, in multiple interviews over the last 30 years, that the seed of this song came from a news story she read about a woman who, having lost custody of her child to its father, leapt from a window with her infant in her arms, killing them both. The song was initially written from the perspective of the mother, although these days, Donelly has said “Now I relate only to the child.”
Tanya Donelly has stated, in multiple interviews over the last 30 years, that the seed of this song came from a news story she read about a woman who, having lost custody of her child to its father, leapt from a window with her infant in her arms, killing them both. The song was initially written from the perspective of the mother, although these days, Donelly has said “Now I relate only to the child.”