My interpretation of the song is somewhat similar to toolgirl's. I must say I was inspired by it. The main difference in mine would be the one who is rising. I hear the story being told through the child of the fighting couple. It opens with a haunting sound that, to me sounds like someone tossing and turning in bed. The lines "Don't disturb the beast...feeding on the rose" show the child's current state of being used to these horrible noises. He stays frozen and compromises his true feelings to himself. "Silently blown about again" relates to the actual physical blows given to the mother which she remains silent about. "I'm treading so soft" is the child actually walking to the scene and witnessing firsthand the abuse. This becomes too much for the child. The lines "So no longer...til I rose" are one long sentence that the child shouts toward the father and acts upon. Just as toolgirl mentioned, the "self destructive dance" refers to the mother constanly leaving only to always return. This ended when the child rose. What the child actualy did is somewhat left out for the listener to decide, but in the lines "so no longer...pitiful", where the child is expressing his former state before this night, he distinguishly says he is no longer "gun shy". Whatever happened, the story ends with the two distinctly differently sounding violins in harmony. This may indicate the two reactions of the mother and child and how they are left together in the end.
My interpretation of the song is somewhat similar to toolgirl's. I must say I was inspired by it. The main difference in mine would be the one who is rising. I hear the story being told through the child of the fighting couple. It opens with a haunting sound that, to me sounds like someone tossing and turning in bed. The lines "Don't disturb the beast...feeding on the rose" show the child's current state of being used to these horrible noises. He stays frozen and compromises his true feelings to himself. "Silently blown about again" relates to the actual physical blows given to the mother which she remains silent about. "I'm treading so soft" is the child actually walking to the scene and witnessing firsthand the abuse. This becomes too much for the child. The lines "So no longer...til I rose" are one long sentence that the child shouts toward the father and acts upon. Just as toolgirl mentioned, the "self destructive dance" refers to the mother constanly leaving only to always return. This ended when the child rose. What the child actualy did is somewhat left out for the listener to decide, but in the lines "so no longer...pitiful", where the child is expressing his former state before this night, he distinguishly says he is no longer "gun shy". Whatever happened, the story ends with the two distinctly differently sounding violins in harmony. This may indicate the two reactions of the mother and child and how they are left together in the end.