I see this song as maybe once a year the husband treats his wife with love and compassion on the one day of the year that is valentines day, but for the rest of the year he goes back to his abusive nature, "surprise surprise" this suggests that the song could be set shortly after valentines day and when the husband has "gone to the dogs again" and that the wife doesn't expect him to come home "anything but blind" this backs up my point of the one day of the year where the husband treats his wife right, over.
"And lately it seems that as it all gets tougher, Your idea of justice just becomes rougher and rougher" this part of the song further backs up the theory of the song being about a woman that is being abused by her husband, the longer and longer their relationship goes on the husband is getting worse and worse, because as things for them are getting tougher, he is abusing her even more than ever before.
This last bit of the song "Thank you for the things you bought me, thank you for the card. Thank you for the things you taught me when you hit me hard. That love between two people must be based on understanding ,until that's true you'll find your things all stacked out on the landing, Surprise, surprise! Valentine's day is over, it's over"
This part of the song suggests that at first the husband treated the wife in the right way, brought her things and cards, and then started to physically abused her, and then in the end she realises that for two people to love each other, "it is based on understanding" and as she realises that that is not what her husband has, understanding of her, she kicks him out, and then saying "surprise surprise, valentines day is over", she is telling the husband that for them to be together everyday she needs to be treated like she is on valentines day, and that the physical abuse has to stop.
I see this song as maybe once a year the husband treats his wife with love and compassion on the one day of the year that is valentines day, but for the rest of the year he goes back to his abusive nature, "surprise surprise" this suggests that the song could be set shortly after valentines day and when the husband has "gone to the dogs again" and that the wife doesn't expect him to come home "anything but blind" this backs up my point of the one day of the year where the husband treats his wife right, over.
"And lately it seems that as it all gets tougher, Your idea of justice just becomes rougher and rougher" this part of the song further backs up the theory of the song being about a woman that is being abused by her husband, the longer and longer their relationship goes on the husband is getting worse and worse, because as things for them are getting tougher, he is abusing her even more than ever before.
This last bit of the song "Thank you for the things you bought me, thank you for the card. Thank you for the things you taught me when you hit me hard. That love between two people must be based on understanding ,until that's true you'll find your things all stacked out on the landing, Surprise, surprise! Valentine's day is over, it's over" This part of the song suggests that at first the husband treated the wife in the right way, brought her things and cards, and then started to physically abused her, and then in the end she realises that for two people to love each other, "it is based on understanding" and as she realises that that is not what her husband has, understanding of her, she kicks him out, and then saying "surprise surprise, valentines day is over", she is telling the husband that for them to be together everyday she needs to be treated like she is on valentines day, and that the physical abuse has to stop.