Your first love, the man who would fight for you without thinking, however is too emotionally immature to truly hold a relationship and thus breaks your heart (tearing your city down). She’s telling of the 3 men you will fall in love with, the first being the soldier. She is sharing her wisdom upon a much younger woman. My interpretation is that the song is told by an older wise woman.
Soldier poet king free#
Then, after the three finally come together, the city is finally torn down, the old ruler deposed, and thus, the victim free to move on with their lives, which is celebrated with the upbeat second half with joyous chants of "O lay, o lord", which could either be seen as celebrations of the new ruler, or as vicious mockery of the old one (maybe both?), as the cycle is finally broken. The line "smeared with oil like David's boy" likens the importance of this person in breaking the cycle of abuse to a king chosen by a prophet (and thus by God himself) to ensure the kingdom's health. Friends who look after people who left abusive families, new lovers after abusive exes, overall people who demonstrate to the victim how they're SUPPOSED to be treated. The "ruler" is the most important: it's the more kind-hearted people who fill the void the abuser used to hold. Ridicule and dissection are the most powerful tools to combat fear with, so to make sure the victim understands that the abuser no longer holds, and realistically didn't hold, as much power over them as they claimed, "slaying them with their tongue", has more impact than anything physically tangible. The "poet" represents people who help the victim get over or move past their fear of their abuser.
It's worth noting that "tear your city down" is first used with the soldier, and then repeated later, because even though the soldier "tore the city down", what it represents still stands in the victim's mind.
The "soldier" represents the people who physically remove the victim from the abuser, and take away the tangible power they have over their victim. Considering that the band has said that the entire album is about looking back on an abusive relationship (specifically with one's family/parents), the soldier, poet and king, respectively, represent the different ways that other people can help someone move on from such a relationship, and how effective they are.
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