| Alice in Chains – Don't Follow Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I always thought of this song as the anti-thesis to the prodical son. The prodical son leaves home and lives the high life. After he his life is pretty close to being spent he has nowhere else to turn and ends up coming home. AIC is always dark with their lyrics and make biblical references from time to time - I think this song is the prodical son who in similar fashion has left home- except when the song picks up the story turns dark in that the narrator gets so lost as they feel there is no turning back. They have forgotten their name, places, faces, and things they've done and said. Stare at the mirror and see they have transformed into a nightmarish looking monster too ashamed to go home. Take me home- repeated multiple times is the struggle between choosing the grave or going back home such a wreck. He in the end chooses to continue on his path of destruction not returning home. It is sad and haunting how the lyrics to the song fit the last decade of Layne's life- He struggled with the demon of addiction and instead of turning to loved ones- He chose the dark path of "Say Goodbye don't follow" He went it alone, and died alone -- with no one around for weeks to find his remains half decomposed at home. Poor guy. It is one of my favorite AIC songs - and a haunting one at the same time. |
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| Alice in Chains – Don't Follow Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I always thought of this song as the anti-thesis to the prodical son. The prodical son leaves home and lives the high life. After he his life is pretty close to being spent he has nowhere else to turn and ends up coming home. AIC is always dark with their lyrics and make biblical references from time to time - I think this song is the prodical son who in similar fashion has left home- except when the song picks up the story turns dark in that the narrator gets so lost as they feel there is no turning back. They have forgotten their name, places, faces, and things they've done and said. Stare at the mirror and see they have transformed into a nightmarish looking monster too ashamed to go home. Take me home- repeated multiple times is the struggle between choosing the grave or going back home such a wreck. He in the end chooses to continue on his path of destruction not returning home. It is sad and haunting how the lyrics to the song fit the last decade of Layne's life- He struggled with the demon of addiction and instead of turning to loved ones- He chose the dark path of "Say Goodbye don't follow" He went it alone, and died alone -- with no one around for weeks to find his remains half decomposed at home. Poor guy. It is one of my favorite AIC songs - and a haunting one at the same time. |
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| Sting – Moon Over Bourbon Street Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I never made the vampire connection. I always thought of it as more of a Dr. Jeckyl and Mr Hide and the loss of control and inhibitions with substance abuse. The walk down Bourbon street is an allusion to being drunk. The priestly hands was what his former life was before he became all consumed with darkness and wanders the night as drunk. Enough so that he can not show his face at day. He wishes to be pure and strong but has succumbed to the sickness of his mind (much like Mr. Hide self-destrucive nature to destroying everything in Dr. Jeckylls life). In the end of the song he give into his darkest lustful desires to go up to the women he has stalked so often to commit rape and murder- he must love what he destroys and destroy what he loves (because the innocence he loved will be lost when he rapes, he knows he will then be forced to destroy her afterwards) It's an erie and dark song, and takes something like the stalking song of "Every Breath you take" to even a darker level of moving into action on acting on impulses. Great song to watch live theatrically during symphoncicty |
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