goldstyle said this: "my mom brought me here. but she just dropped me off. can anyone give me a ride home?"
the highest rated comment on the youtube video. youtube.com/watch what i believe he/she is talking about and what the song means is that we're here, born into a world with no certainty and no promise of an afterlife or god.
there are several funeral references in the song,
"you set their viking ship ablaze"
"a thousand whitefish floating belly up"
"we threw ourselves right into it
where lay the bodies had been claimed"
the "spirit" that he craves is an immortal spirit, a soul to move on to the afterlife, "deliverance from malaise."
however the problem with this is that he doesn't know how real the afterlife is going to be, he "needs some sunshine" to illuminate the "black water."
in my opinion black water represents death, "take me down" as voyeurbambi said. the siren is the warning of death, the alarm to tell you prepare, make funereal rites to make sure that when you die, you will be carried up towards the sunshine.
the image of the viking ship ablaze is very poignant for me, and definitely the first lyric that caught in my head which makes it hilarious that its been transcribed incorrectly here. unfortunately burning an entire ship for one man would have been quite wasteful for the vikings, but still, the symbolism is glorious! i see it as an admission that we must sink down into the "black water" all the parts of the viking chief are burnt up and sent back into the world from where they came. this differs greatly from traditions such as mummification or marble tombs and really has more in common with Mongolian open air burials. however the difference is still a blaze of glory, the vikings believed in valhalla, a glorious mead-hall of an afterlife and so still they needed that "sunshine" the divine power of fire and light to transform them like a phoenix from the water.
i think he is referring to setting his own viking ship ablaze, the people watching from the island as they reach "the moon's false icy cauldron" or the reflection of the moon in the water. the moon's light is itself only a reflection of the sun and so may tie in to the motif of an uncertain funeral rite, that may or may not give him "the spirit that he craves." the fact that he mentions "bane to the spirit that i crave" is also interesting as bane's root comes from the old Norse word for death bani. not sure if that was intentional on timber timbre's part.
maybe I'm crazy but that's what i think the song means and thats why i thumbs upped goldstyle and thumbs downed coolcatwbc, you're the one not listening to the song, it's not about where we came from, we all got dropped off by our mom, the question is how are we getting home?
goldstyle said this: "my mom brought me here. but she just dropped me off. can anyone give me a ride home?"
the highest rated comment on the youtube video. youtube.com/watch what i believe he/she is talking about and what the song means is that we're here, born into a world with no certainty and no promise of an afterlife or god.
there are several funeral references in the song, "you set their viking ship ablaze" "a thousand whitefish floating belly up" "we threw ourselves right into it where lay the bodies had been claimed"
the "spirit" that he craves is an immortal spirit, a soul to move on to the afterlife, "deliverance from malaise."
however the problem with this is that he doesn't know how real the afterlife is going to be, he "needs some sunshine" to illuminate the "black water."
in my opinion black water represents death, "take me down" as voyeurbambi said. the siren is the warning of death, the alarm to tell you prepare, make funereal rites to make sure that when you die, you will be carried up towards the sunshine.
the image of the viking ship ablaze is very poignant for me, and definitely the first lyric that caught in my head which makes it hilarious that its been transcribed incorrectly here. unfortunately burning an entire ship for one man would have been quite wasteful for the vikings, but still, the symbolism is glorious! i see it as an admission that we must sink down into the "black water" all the parts of the viking chief are burnt up and sent back into the world from where they came. this differs greatly from traditions such as mummification or marble tombs and really has more in common with Mongolian open air burials. however the difference is still a blaze of glory, the vikings believed in valhalla, a glorious mead-hall of an afterlife and so still they needed that "sunshine" the divine power of fire and light to transform them like a phoenix from the water.
i think he is referring to setting his own viking ship ablaze, the people watching from the island as they reach "the moon's false icy cauldron" or the reflection of the moon in the water. the moon's light is itself only a reflection of the sun and so may tie in to the motif of an uncertain funeral rite, that may or may not give him "the spirit that he craves." the fact that he mentions "bane to the spirit that i crave" is also interesting as bane's root comes from the old Norse word for death bani. not sure if that was intentional on timber timbre's part.
the video also supports my hypothesis with the half-dead deep sea diver with the cracked face mask being raised up by the sea monsters, just like angels raising jesus to heaven. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Dosso_Dossi_022.jpg
maybe I'm crazy but that's what i think the song means and thats why i thumbs upped goldstyle and thumbs downed coolcatwbc, you're the one not listening to the song, it's not about where we came from, we all got dropped off by our mom, the question is how are we getting home?