Fetal Horses
Echoes of Love and Loss: Deciphering John Vanderslice's 'Fetal Horses'
Lyrics
Today Elise today
Expressing a sense of urgency or significance associated with the day, addressing someone named Elise.
You could almost anywhere
Suggesting Elise has the freedom to go almost anywhere.
Your post today
Referring to a message or communication from Elise on this particular day.
Your bruised and pixilated face
Describing Elise's face as injured and distorted in a digital manner.
It seems to me to be
Expressing the perception that something is irreversibly concluded, possibly a relationship with someone referred to as "him."
Finally dead with you and him
Implies a shared demise with Elise and another person ("him").
Today Elise today
Repeating the urgency or significance of today for Elise.
I wanted you
Expressing a desire for Elise to return.
To come back to me again
Yearning for Elise to come back into the speaker's life.
You’d break everything I have
Anticipating Elise causing destruction to the speaker's possessions.
You’ll turn a hanging man bad
Suggesting Elise's influence turning someone morally corrupt or troubled.
I live with another
Indicating the speaker is involved with another person romantically.
I stole her from her lover
Admitting to taking someone away from their previous lover.
Fetal horses
Introducing a metaphor of fetal horses, possibly symbolizing vulnerability or nascent emotions.
Gallop in the womb
Describing fetal horses galloping in the womb, suggesting a sense of development or growth.
Seeding courses in an empty room
Referring to the impact of these fetal horses in an empty room, possibly alluding to unfulfilled potential or unrealized possibilities.
Elise your pixilated bloody face
Revisiting the description of Elise's face, emphasizing its digital distortion and bloodiness.
It seems to be to me
Reiterating the perception of a conclusive end, possibly to a relationship with "him."
Finally to dead with you him
Reiterating a shared demise with Elise and "him," urging Elise to come back.
Come back to me again
Repetition of the desire for Elise's return.
You’d break everything I have
Anticipating potential destruction of the speaker's possessions by Elise.
You’ll turn a hanging man bad
Expressing the potential negative influence of Elise on someone's moral character.
I live with another
Acknowledging the speaker's current relationship with someone else.
I stole her from her lover
Confessing to being involved with someone taken from their previous lover.
Fetal horses
Reiteration of the metaphor of fetal horses, possibly emphasizing its significance.
Gallop in the womb
Repeating the imagery of fetal horses galloping in the womb.
Seeding courses in an empty room
Reiterating the impact of these fetal horses in an empty room, underscoring the idea of potential unfulfilled in a vacant space.
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