Epilogue

From what i got out of it i think that this album tells the story of a female character, based on Sylvia Plath (the suicide attempts under the house and head in the oven, the multiple personality disorder, the broken leg?), who has been battling bone cancer from a young age. There are mentionings of her father, so he was either abusive to her as a child or didn't know how to deal with her situation and just neglected her. All of this has caused alot of severe emotional problems for her, causing her to become annorexic, bipolar, abusive, and unable to accept being cared for by others. The narrorator is a hospital worker, possibly a male nurse, who falls in love with her and marries her. However their relationship is unhealthy, only getting worse as the cancer progresses. She becomes pregnant at one point but they decide to get an abortion (see "Bear"). As Sylvia comes closer to her death, she becomes more and more depressed and unstable. She finally refuses treatment altogether and invites death in, not allowing the narrorator stop her. This song is about a dream the narrorator has after her death, probably a few years later. I could be wrong, because it seems like an awful lot of misfortune for one person to undergo, but whatever the album is about it is beautiful and one of my favorite albums ever.