I Know Its Over by Steven Patrick Essay -- Papers

I Know Its Over by Steven Patrick succinct This is a bleak, perhaps morbid, but sensitive and intelligent song lyric, which more or less critics see as being about the end of fictional or fantasy relationship. But the interpretation can be much deeper, indeed, a bottomless pit for those who are inclined to wallow in failing and suicidal thoughts. There are four distinct sections that are non entirely connected and this leads to a variety of interpretations in linking them, enabling the hearing to project their own liveings onto the words. And yet, the emotional intensity seems to produce elation1 not depression (perhaps more in the performance than the poetry). Speculation about the meaning of the lines (as foresighted as it is not overdone) can lead to a satisfying enjoyment. expression The first section describes our heros immediate state of mind with the image of his inane bed as a grave Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head and as I resurrect into an empty bed Oh, well. Enough said. As if being buried alive, the grief protagonist feels that his life may as well be over I know its over - still I cling/I dont know where else I can go. Perhaps an intense relationship has diminish to an end, leading to thoughts of despair and suicide, but it may be less obvious. He equates his imagined forthcoming conclusion with a feeling of utter helplessness, but it seems that death is not an option because he finds it difficult to act, as we shall see. So, although the sea wants to issuing me/the knife wants to slit me, he does not seem to want it. He does ask do you think you can help me? but of whom? His mothe... ...tates that drive in is Natural and Real is he afraid that for such as you and I, my neck it is unnatural and imaginary? Themes Typically for this writer the themes are unrequited love, isolation, loneliness, helplessness, and so forth The Wildean themes are, pe rhaps, in the mind of the reader/listener. Indeed, the overall vagueness and ambiguity, typical of this author, together with the complexity of the structure allows for a dichotomy of interpretations. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 However, I acknowledge David Pinching, writing in his essay Oscar Wildes influence on Stephen Fry and Morrissey, when he says that Wilde represents isolation inside ones own world and a grand set of theories about the nigh irrelevant and absurd things. 2 All italics original