| Skillet – Collide Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I agree completely, and i also think that it can have another meaning too, that if you fail by letting God down and fall down to tempations when people try to take your faith away or attack your faith, then God still holds you back: "hold me close when we don't know" - when we think we're fallen away from faith is when God is holding us close: it's a song of comfort to me. | |
| A Perfect Circle – Orestes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Hi there, I study Classical Civilisation and have studied this topic of the myth of Orestes for 2 years now and now see how this is directly a relation to the story. Now there are many versions of the myth, all built around the same basis (Agamemnon kills Iphegeneia, Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus kill Agamemnon (and Cassandra, a token of war and a seer that Agamemnon brought back with him), and Orestes kills Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra), but the reasons and ethics behind the myth are different. Maynard here takes on the part of the story just before this last event, where Orestes is fearful of the Furies and does not want to take his revenge on Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus ("keeping me from killing you") because he knows that he will be chased by the Furies until he has revenge taken upon him. The song takes a viewpoint of Orestes that is not highlighted in literature, a lament of Orestes of his reservations about taking his revenge. The point I'd like to point out is the section with "pull me in to your perfect circle" which is a direct reference to the 'circle of revenge' in the story of Orestes. The crimes of Atreus have gone unpunished, and so revenge must be taken on the next person in the line of family. When this vengeance is taken, revenge must be taken on that person to find justice. This is a circle because of course justice cannot be found if this "one chain" continues. The song mentions "sever this umbilical residue", where Orestes wishes he had never been born into the house of Atreus, he wishes he could somehow cut off this cycle of revenge. |
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