![]() ![]() The wrongness of the act being emphasised when the trees in Eden are subsequently referred to as ‘stately’. 1 Such can be gleaned from their living ‘in the Land of Nod’ to which Cain was banished after his act of fratricide.Īs the former pair, they’re blessed in Eden with everything they need – ‘All that and more and then some’. The two warring nursery rhyme characters represent humanity throughout time, first appearing as Adam and Eve disobeying God, and then as their offspring, the brothers Cain and Abel. ![]() It’s from the Judeo-Christian perspective that the song begins. But when unexpectedly in the seventh verse the third person gives way to the first and second, the relevance of the fictional pair to the lives and fate of the listener becomes obvious. We perhaps don’t even notice the descriptions which place the protagonists as much in our world as in that of the bible. Stylised characters and third person narrative initially lull the listener into imagining a comfortable distance between him and the song’s fictional world of bitterness and betrayal. The themes are love and theft, as one might expect from the album title, as well as desire, suffering, and redemption. The song deals with doctrine, both Judeo-Christian and Buddhist, while also being in debt to traditional nursery rhyme. ![]()
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