The eighth track on Tempest, a long narrative ballad that runs for roughly nine minutes.
The words
A husband pursues his runaway wife and her lover, and the confrontation ends in death for all three.
A man comes home to find his wife has left with another man, and he sets out after them. The song tells the story in many verses like an old murder ballad, with dialogue between the three characters as the chase reaches its violent end. There is no chorus, just the steady unfolding of the plot over a dark, repetitive acoustic groove. Its tone is fatalistic, as if the tragedy were written long before it began.
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The words
A husband pursues his runaway wife and her lover, and the confrontation ends in death for all three.
A man comes home to find his wife has left with another man, and he sets out after them. The song tells the story in many verses like an old murder ballad, with dialogue between the three characters as the chase reaches its violent end. There is no chorus, just the steady unfolding of the plot over a dark, repetitive acoustic groove. Its tone is fatalistic, as if the tragedy were written long before it began.
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