Lyric discussion by adeyar 

rake (rāk)

noun a dissolute, debauched man; roué

True.

"I was takin' my pride in the pleasures I'd known I laughed and thought I'd be forgiven but my laughter turned 'round eyes blazing and said my friend, we're holdin' a wedding"

This song is throw back to a different time. A wild young man, sleeping around, gets caught and is forced to marry. Probably a a shotgun wedding.

@adeyar you're not wrong thats the just of of it. It's a retelling of. Don Juan . The wedding is no metaphor but it represents him dying too. He suffers through marriage and has a slow death

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