To me, this seems to be a beautiful song about a girl whose life is full of the worries ('The choirmaster, usually a bastard, knows her mother’s sick, he’ll be nice to her'). With all this, everything else seems useless.
This is especially obvious to me in the line:
She shut her eyes and imagined the desert
No cars, no mobiles, just sun and bread
To me, this seems to be a beautiful song about a girl whose life is full of the worries ('The choirmaster, usually a bastard, knows her mother’s sick, he’ll be nice to her'). With all this, everything else seems useless.
This is especially obvious to me in the line:
She shut her eyes and imagined the desert No cars, no mobiles, just sun and bread