I'm fairly certain the song is in some way associated with the legend about the forbidden love between Eloisa and Abelard, and the letters they exchanged after they parted. Even though they were married and had a child together, Eloisa's parents had Abelard castrated in retaliation of the young lovers' defiance of their wishes. In their exchanges, they could never fully reconcile or make sense of their intensely opposing views as a man and a woman. (That the conflict could no longer be resolved or atleast sublimated by a physical union could probably be a source of the frustration that is dealt with in this song). Think about it. There could be a very literal interpretation to the lines: 'Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do/I know I'll never really get inside of you/To make your eyes catch fire/The way they should/The way the blue could pull me in/If they only would/If they only would/At least I'd lose this sense of sensing something else/That hides away/From me and you'. The rest of the lyrics are also relevant to the story-'With aching looks and breaking hearts/And all the prayers your hands can make' could be a direct reference to the fact that Abelard joined a monastery shortly after he was castrated, and urged Elise to become a nun.
Alexander Pope's poem 'Eloisa to Abelard' also deals with this same love story.
I'm fairly certain the song is in some way associated with the legend about the forbidden love between Eloisa and Abelard, and the letters they exchanged after they parted. Even though they were married and had a child together, Eloisa's parents had Abelard castrated in retaliation of the young lovers' defiance of their wishes. In their exchanges, they could never fully reconcile or make sense of their intensely opposing views as a man and a woman. (That the conflict could no longer be resolved or atleast sublimated by a physical union could probably be a source of the frustration that is dealt with in this song). Think about it. There could be a very literal interpretation to the lines: 'Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do/I know I'll never really get inside of you/To make your eyes catch fire/The way they should/The way the blue could pull me in/If they only would/If they only would/At least I'd lose this sense of sensing something else/That hides away/From me and you'. The rest of the lyrics are also relevant to the story-'With aching looks and breaking hearts/And all the prayers your hands can make' could be a direct reference to the fact that Abelard joined a monastery shortly after he was castrated, and urged Elise to become a nun. Alexander Pope's poem 'Eloisa to Abelard' also deals with this same love story.