Re: Tearing (Me) Asunder

["Ronald W. Garrison" <rwgarr@intrex.net>]

pDaleCampbell wrote:
> 
> 
> This person was confusing this most excellent song with "The Kick
> Inside", which is (I assume) completely non-autobiographical.
> TKI is based on a traditional song (that I've never even heard)
> called "The Ballad of Lucy Wan" (The _Home_Demo_ version of TKI
> even includes a reference to "Lucy's story").  In TKI, the girl
> is "leaving" because of the shame of becoming pregnant by an
> incestuous affair with her BROTHER.
> 
>      "This kicking here inside makes me leave you behind
>       No more under the quilt to keep you warm
>       Your sister I was born..."

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Does this mean that the song is not really about suicide after all. The
original assumption--that it *was* about suicide always caused me some
confusion. It seemed hard to conceive about anyone, no matter the
circumstances, killing herelf and being so magnanimous about it.
*Leaving* as the action makes it a bit more thinkable.

--Ron

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