Black Hearted Love
A Woman a Man Walked By is the result of a collaboration between PJ Harvey and John Perish, Black Hearted Love is one of my favorite songs on that album.
To me, the song is about a woman and her lover, and their intense connection to each other. My favorite line goes…
“When you call out my name in rapture, I volunteer my soul for murder. I wish this moment here forever…”
When you give yourself to someone, your skin against theirs, and you genuinely feel something deep for that person, that’s kind of the pact. You give your soul to that person, and they can do what they will with it, keep it or destroy it. This pact can go both ways, but not always, Still, the moment that pact is formed, it’s like magic, and you wish you could stay in that moment forever. At least, that’s what I take from the song.
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