What does Gallows mean?

CocoRosie: Gallows Meaning

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Gallows Lyrics

It was just before the moon hung
Her weary, heavy head in
the gallows and the graves hold
the milky, milky cradle
His tears have turned to poppies
a shimmer in the midnight
a flower in the twilight
a flower in the twilight

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  1. anonymous
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     Oct 13th 2014 !⃝

    I feel like it's a story swirling around three people who loved each other deeply. The two sisters are outcasts in society, understanding the earth and trees and wild things, and are shunned because of it. The young man loved them, and he was hanged for hanging out with "witches". They could not save him, even though he fought all the way to the gallows, and so they took poison and died beneath the willow tree, all three of them reunited in death. There was a bond between all of them, something otherworldly that others could not understand. They scream as he does, they suffer all the same pains. And now they are apart of the earth, with their hair in the garden, poppies where their tears fell, and hands wound up in the branches.

  2. anonymous
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     Sep 26th 2012 !⃝

    I feel like the song say they both got raped or mistreated in a forest. even though it may not be a forest exactly some harm was done to them. "Our screams are in his scream" he is getting hanged for what he has done.


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