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| | The Sky I Scrape: Black Song Interpretations from Ten.._ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | We see what is presumably a man, the main character, but i guess it could go either way knowing mr vedder's gift for gender bending, watching his beloved sleep, and then going through the transition of walking in the outside world and realizing that all he feels is the searing pain of her inevitable loss. |
 | | The song begins with a reference to "untouched sheets of clay, her legs spread out before me, as my body..." The beginning of the verse refers to the great times the lovers had, but now all the canvases, sheets; they all seem untouched, empty, gone. |
 | | That's the most painfull line on the song: he knows that she is going to have her life back, and start things over again without him... |
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