TheNightingale wrote:
Today they've also featured
Rid of Me as their Sunday Review:
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/pj ... rid-of-me/Hmm, not sure if I've ever heard this one before, re: Mary Queen of Scots:
Quote:
“Missed” is the most conventionally pretty song. In a chorus that escalates as she repeats “No, I missed him,” Harvey could be baring her lonely soul. But the verses channel that quotidian heartbreak through a more vivid and specific story that some have interpreted as alluding to the gruesome tragedy of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Can anyone flesh this one out for me a bit? I don't recall ever reading about theories relating to Mary Queen of Scots before.
My feeling about the lyrical thrust of the song is that it is clearly centered around the Jesus resurrection story. With a foot in both the divine and non-divine human relationship aspects of Mary Magdalene and Jesus. Missing him when he was gone.
Her feelings being expressed in the first verse, if he had indeed been resurrected, i.e.,
"in a cloud, please come down". Then later, in moments of doubt or skepticism perhaps, wondering where he had gone, i.e,
"where (are) you hid?" And in between, Mother Mary accusing Mary Magdalene, i.e.,
"My son, where's he been? Don't deny it And don't you hide him", to which Magdalene replies,
"No, I've missed him".