Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33950880-20190725133858/@comment-91.159.58.12-20190901112033

Octofan wrote: I don't think so. For those two lines to be talking about just Arte gives an arbitrary imbalance to Arte's part in that verse of the chorus. I read the lines as giving a commonality to Gretel's first two lives, which is later shared by her third one: she keeps killing her parents ( Ron just barely counting as a parental figure .) That way the first two lives both have three lines each dedicated to them overall, and all of the lives have the essential information of: What was her profession, where was she geographically, and who did she kill? I still think it's talking about her life as Arte. In Ending Boy Hänsel, the similar part describes Hänsel's three lives. I see this version as a parallel to that, describing Gretel's three lives. First four lines are the first one, the second four are the second one and the third four are the third one. It's not 100% similar (in Gretel's version the first two lines of the first part are not about her first life, and the third one is longer than four lines) but the parallel is there.