The noose
Oooo..
Kiss or kill or cage.
Oooo..
Lost in love’s malaise.
Oooo..
Kill or kiss or cage.
Oooo..
Lost in love’s malaise.
Stranded out to sea
This life has come and left with the best of me.
Nothing left to lead
Out here living free.
‘Cause the law is long and loose.
You care to come to me
Send a secret letter and where to meet.
Our love is bittersweet, sail out while you sleep.
‘Cause the law is long and loose.
They’ve handed down the noose.
Oooo..
Kiss or kill or cage.
I should apologize
Born with little sense and too great of pride.
I’ve lived a wild ride.
A raider on the tides.
But, the law is long and loose.
They’ve handed down the noose.
They’ve handed down the noose.
Ooooo
Ooooo..
WHAT DOES IT MEAN!
These lyrics were mostly written as part of a narrative, from the perspective of an on-the-run, early 18th-century brigand who was condemned to death for piracy and murder. He spent long hours drifting out at sea, hiding from the law, questioning his life choices, and obsessively fearing the noose he knew awaited him. He was only occasionally drawn back to the danger of dry land by the woman he loved, the only one who truly knew he was not a monster, with whom he secretly communicated. His authentic love for her was the last beautiful thing in his ugly life. He risked everything to see her, but it was always bittersweet as he was quick to pull anchor and sail right back out to evade capture. With his love watching among the gathered crowd, he finally met the gallows in 1712. He was put to death at Execution Dock on the east side of London, upon the blood-soaked shore of the River Thames. So it goes...
