I'm going to piggback on untrue's assessment on this awesome song. The narrator would like to be the "tallest man" in his lover's eyes, but there are obstacles to this desire. There are things that the narrator has done that does not warrant his desire, but he actively tries to "kill" the messenger--which could be a stand in for his conscious trying to tell the lover all his flaws that he squelches to give her the illusion.
And it appears to work, because at the end, the lover and narrator are dancing among all these buried messengers in a beautiful garden.
So perhaps it was better to hide the truth in favor a more pleasurable lie for the two of them.
I'm going to piggback on untrue's assessment on this awesome song. The narrator would like to be the "tallest man" in his lover's eyes, but there are obstacles to this desire. There are things that the narrator has done that does not warrant his desire, but he actively tries to "kill" the messenger--which could be a stand in for his conscious trying to tell the lover all his flaws that he squelches to give her the illusion.
And it appears to work, because at the end, the lover and narrator are dancing among all these buried messengers in a beautiful garden.
So perhaps it was better to hide the truth in favor a more pleasurable lie for the two of them.