Quote:
|
Originally Posted by 1010011010
Oh yeah - I just remembered from Othello that there's irony in there.
Especially when Othello refers to Iago as "honest Iago".
That's "dramatic irony" - where the audience knows but the character doesn't.
I think.
|
"I know you love me, here's the irony: you're going to walk away intact."
The irony here is the implication that Stuart Murdoch, or the character he is singing in first person, thinks he does not need the girl, and she loves him and thus will be broken when he leaves, but actually is fine, whereby the man will somehow be incomplete: shattered.
Belle & Sebastian have all the answers.
And Smarties.
Have answers.
Not Belle & Sebastian have all the Smarties.