IT is fascinating to me how an abstract text poetically constructed induces such widely differing visions of the "inevitable" meaning to be taken. I know this was said before, but it striking what people inject in the willing framework of those indefinite poetic words. Doomed to hang? ABout to die? Off to the army? NEw job in another town?

There's no determinant in the song itself, so the difference must rise from the viewpoints doing the viewing of it.


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