Reaper Lyrics

[Martyn White]

>Valentine as metaphor for mortal love/stuff, done now. Romeo and Juliet I
>used as an _example_ of a couple who had the faith to take their love
>elsewhere when (in their case) they weren't permitted the freedom to love
>here and now. What I meant was, THEY'RE in eternity, 'cause they had the
>Faith to believe in the possibility.  It frankly never occured to me that the
>suicide aspect of their story would be plugged in (like images in a rock
>video?) to people's take on 'Reaper' making it an advert for suicide. The
>forty thousand number was pulled from the air as a guess about how many
>people died every day world wide, not how many people committed suicide.

        I always thought that the reason that people thought it was
about suicide was not because of these lines.  I thought it was because
of the lines:  "Came the last night of sadness, it was clear that she
couldn't go on"

>Buck Dharma

Martyn