Lyrics and Music
The song deals with a kind of schizophrenia or dissociative identity disorder, which lives in the character that Farmer portrays, and also makes reference to religious concepts (angels and Satan) to explore the two opposite sides of one person. The song uses obsolete words from 18th Century language. The calculating Marquise de Mertreuil (a character in the French epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses), as both angelic as diabolical according to her own interests, seems to be evoked in the lyrics. The psychologist Hugues Royer said the lyrics, as well as the music video, show that "the identity, the sense of unity to achieve, remains problematic".
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