| Chiodos – All Nereids Beware Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Great song. Most of the lyrics tend to talk about a relationship that ended badly, i.e. "Horizions still stuck in my mind/to the girl that can't forgive me" The "take these misunderstandings" stanza is him basically just expressing the effect of the break-up on his life: it hurts, and sucks, and burdens him. This guy did something to fuck up their relationship, it ended, and all he has left is this lingering feeling of guilt for hurting his old woman. I know how that feels. The one thing that I'm still having trouble grasping is the whole Greek "Nereid" allusion. according to Wikipedia.org: "In Greek mythology, the Nereids (NEER-ee-eds) are blue-haired sea nymphs, the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris. They often accompany Poseidon and are always friendly and helpful towards sailors fighting perilous storms." This is hard to connect, and my guess is a bit of a stretch, but "blinded, hooked on an anchor" and "A shipwreck, a castaway" could possibly reflect conflicting feelings; i.e. yeah this guy did something to fuck things up with her, maybe he broke up with her, but he still feels a sense of loss, a sense of abandonment, a sense of not knowing what to do with oneself. I've broken up with girls before, only to realize 6 months later that I just threw away something great....yeah, it's cliché, but true. So he's in this "storm," this post-relationship destruction, and he wants nereids to stay away...he doesn't want help, he doesnt want to be comforted by other..women? That's what I see. Maybe he's afraid he'll be tempted to go on a rebound, to seek comfort from a stranger, maybe he's pissed off at the whole female sex at the moment...all we can determine is that he doesn't want to be helped. The "corpse" imagery, in my opinon, could be the way in which he figuratively "killed her," maybe in the sense that she herself has voiced death-like feelings due to their breakup, maybe in the sense that he feels like she is now dead to him and beyond touching or experiencing ever again...the fact that he refers to her corpse as a "treasure" inclines me to think that he wants to interact with her again, but she's so far gone in his life, it would take a miracle-rebirth or reanimation-to get her back. And i'm done. |
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