The song was described as an anxious jumpy ballad that describes a marriage wracked with drinking, violent quarrels and a possessive, self-hating husband.
This people, notwithstanding their propensity to violence, rarely employ arms in their private quarrels, but decide them with the fist or with the club.
She dwells in the wounds of the world, deserts, ruined houses, poverty, tatters, hunger, thirst, quarrels, mourning of children, in wild and other uncivilized, dangerous places.
