Just think, I could have been spending my life in sin and misery, at the House of the Rising Sun.
@chaucerburnt @cerebrate It’s a whorehouse, what do you think happens?
@zarpaulus @cerebrate no, that's the RISING Sun you're thinking of
And in various versions of the song, even the Rising Sun has been alternately interpreted as a flophouse, casino, or jail, as well as a bordello.
@chaucerburnt by symmetry, some sort of monastic order of temperance, chastity, and cheerful boredom?
@cerebrate I feel like Ursula Vernon could make this work.
@cerebrate you have to wonder what they do at the House of the Falling Sun, it's never adequately covered.