See You In Black

[Andrew A. Apold]

>I don't know if this is totally irrelevant or old-hat by now, but I
>recall there was a little mini-discussion not too long about the
>SYIB lyrics.
>
>Specifically, the part about "I saw the marks on your hands..."
>Everyone was trying to figure out why there would be marks on her
>hands. Well, just yesterday I popped HF into the player for the first
>time in a month or two, and as I heard it, it just hit me (no pun
>intended)...
>
>This woman is obviously a victim of abuse and is trying to hide
>it...they make that pretty clear. So she's gonna wear clothes that
>cover her up pretty good, plus makeup on the face and all that stuff.
>Probably the only thing that would be exposed is her hands. And of
>course the blood on the coffee cup comes from a cut inside her
>mouth...something else she wouldn't be able to conceal.
>
>I thought that was kind of cool when I figured it out...it shows a
>subtlety I hadn't given John Shirley any credit for up to that point.
>Not that I think he's a great writer now or anything, but that WAS
>pretty clever.

Yup.  There is a Shirley website that goes over this pretty well....

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Andrew Apold