The song is about loss and unrequited love, noting themes from Oscar Wilde's Nightingale and the Rose and Dorian Grey. Makes a statement on the nature of a love/relationship that's doomed to fail and the lengths people go to when splitting up.
Theme's cover the nature of people's breakups, ranging from emotional rage to the act of attempting to forget those they were romantically involved with to spare them from the pain.
In particular, The Nightingale and the Rose tells the tale of a short story where a student attempts to gain the affection of a Professor's Daughter by obtaining a rose. The student looks in his garden but can't find one, becoming distraught at the fact, a nightingale (bird) overhears this and chooses to sacrifice themself to create a rose for the student, singing while it does.
"A rose that is built
Out of music by moonlight
Petals stained ruby with nightingale blood
Cast down in disgust
To be crushed by a cart-wheel"
Because of mere trivia misunderstood
Only to find the Professor's Daughter isn't interested in the rose anymore and casts it down.
The song is about loss and unrequited love, noting themes from Oscar Wilde's Nightingale and the Rose and Dorian Grey. Makes a statement on the nature of a love/relationship that's doomed to fail and the lengths people go to when splitting up.
Theme's cover the nature of people's breakups, ranging from emotional rage to the act of attempting to forget those they were romantically involved with to spare them from the pain.
In particular, The Nightingale and the Rose tells the tale of a short story where a student attempts to gain the affection of a Professor's Daughter by obtaining a rose. The student looks in his garden but can't find one, becoming distraught at the fact, a nightingale (bird) overhears this and chooses to sacrifice themself to create a rose for the student, singing while it does.
"A rose that is built Out of music by moonlight Petals stained ruby with nightingale blood Cast down in disgust To be crushed by a cart-wheel"
Because of mere trivia misunderstood
Only to find the Professor's Daughter isn't interested in the rose anymore and casts it down.
[Edit: Elaboration.]