I think this song is flat out amazing and I could listen to it on repeat for days.
My interpretation of the "drowning babies" stanza is the desire to preserve innocence. As a rule, babies represent innocence and purity, however in the song, they're crying. This stands to show that something bad in the world has upset them, they're losing their innocence. The only way to keep them from losing more and save them from further suffering in the world is to end their life, but this act would upset the mothers and thus create more loss of innocence and suffering, so he doesn't do it.
In an odd way, I think his willingness to commit such an awful crime actually shows a lot of strength and self-sacrifice.
I think this song is flat out amazing and I could listen to it on repeat for days.
My interpretation of the "drowning babies" stanza is the desire to preserve innocence. As a rule, babies represent innocence and purity, however in the song, they're crying. This stands to show that something bad in the world has upset them, they're losing their innocence. The only way to keep them from losing more and save them from further suffering in the world is to end their life, but this act would upset the mothers and thus create more loss of innocence and suffering, so he doesn't do it.
In an odd way, I think his willingness to commit such an awful crime actually shows a lot of strength and self-sacrifice.
Crazy how backwards that ends up being