The song begins with a soliloquy by the repentant juhan. He tells Ganymede that he is "utterly immoral" for sleeping with him for seven years and that he will never forgive him. He says that he must be "the only person in his heart" if he has "altered" him. If he has erased him, then "there can be no one else" . He promises to treat him like "he's dead" as long as he does not meet him again. The song ends with the song's title, "walnut song" , which means "to treat like his wife" ; it is a reference to the fact that the song is about a man who treats his wife like a wife.