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the start of the song reminds me of star wars, and this fact has somehow trancended it's geekiness in my mind, and made the song that much more tender. 'you have a father' is a noir-perspective on the 'i am your father' scene/line, and 'there is another' is an actual quote - when luke has just launched his x-wing from the dagaba system, the ghost of obi-wan speaks to yoda, something about 'that boy is our only hope', when yoda says 'no....there is another,' just as the red from the boosters blanches across his face. it's one of the most underated moments in the trilogy. 'you have a sister' could also be a quote, when obi-wan lets on about leia.

this whole parallel turns the first verse into a montage of the films, with little sequences accompanying each line, turning both the song into an inevitable tragedy, and the film sequences into a desperate freudian web. 'there is another' destroys the sinister hope yoda gives us, the same hope that occurs again and again throughout any kind of hollywood narrative or a forced personal-narrative; the hope that is the turning point, or the reason we keep digging. it turns it into an inevitable dissapointment - it's telling us, it's delivering the line, but the quivering quiet gives away the fact that, they know better. they are the ego scriptor. they have written the rest of the lines - they know how their story unfolds. you will not come out well, and they have a really hard time hiding that from you.

but then, we get theresa - 'it's Theresa you love the best'. whenever i sing it to myself, i can't help singing it with the 'th' rather than just the 't'. it's because Theresa is so similar to there is another - THEREiSAnother. what does that mean? have we hope again? is Theresa the actual other, rather than the abstract hope/inevitable misery? or is Theresa the one who steals our life - is she fire? is she a sister?

i have no idea if Theresa fits into the bible, but we've got some half references to noah's ark - there was a flood, a world of water', but the story is, again, ripped from it's roots - they tear a steeple down to survive, and the boat is less a boat than a mass of floating shards of wood, and Theresa seems to snatch a piece of driftwood that you might've got.

'from near his heart he took a rib, all fires have to burn a life to live'. at this point i thought that Theresa might be Lilith, the first woman. She's taken the name, and some virginity...but she's also not there any more. and eve lives because she doesn't. lilith is some kind of dichotomy, a slaughtered lamb and simultaneously a social outcast, seen as evil. eve's heart is lilith's death.

i don't know what that means.

swan lake - all fires