Tristan and Isolde

“Your ivy grows, and now I'm covered in you”

Community readers hear the legend of Tristan and Isolde behind the song: doomed lovers caught in a triangle with Isolde's husband, and the tradition in which a vine or briar grows from one lover's grave to the other's, binding them in death as they could not be in life. The detail rhymes with the song's ivy spreading over the house of stone.