| Fionn Regan – Hey Rabbit Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| On some repeat listening I'm starting to see something about a divorce, mainly in the "proposal" and "diamond" lines. | |
| Fionn Regan – Catacombs Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This one seems to be about a heroin addict who depends on their spouse to pay for their fix. | |
| Fionn Regan – Bunker or Basement Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is incredible. I usually end up listening to this one over and over when I listen to this album. As for the meaning, it seems to be about someone who went to war and was unable to cope with life after the war had ended. The two last lines of the main verses seem to be about a meeting with other veterans ('lifting the trophy' which would be the memories of the war, maybe? and taking the 'family photograph' of their squad, probably). |
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| Fionn Regan – Lord Help My Poor Soul Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is my favorite song from Empire. So beautiful. Lord help my poor soul were the last words of Edgar Allan Poe. Damascus is the oldest city in the world, subject to many wars and religious strifes, this song seems to be about modern wars against Muslims or middle easterners in general from the perspective of the invading (probably american or allied forces) and how they see the middle eastern people as less than themselves. |
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| Fionn Regan – Hey Rabbit Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Here's my (probably misguided) attempt to figure out the song. -You've had it -Your fingers are in the coin disposal The song is about a drug addict who was sent to rehab, and they can't stand to be there, so they scrounge up some coins to call the narrator, with the intent that the narrator will break them out. -You're tunnelling out -You would not listen to their proposal The narrator tried to covince the addict to stay, but the addict is set on escape. -The springs in the mattress will never reveal how I entered -In the hospital ward cross a billboard This is a little imagery on how they break out of the rehab ward (maybe?) -chorus pretty much what others have posted, the drug addict returning to their addiction. -Hey badger, you're punched out -Your mouth is around an aerosol can -Well they want you to sink but you stood up and swam at this point the addict suffers an overdose and dies. -Ideas, sparrows Here the narrator debates the addicts intentions, thinking that they broke out the addict so they could be together, but realizing the idea was lost as soon as the addict was able to find drugs again. -No one these days says thank you -When you open doors for them anymore -Well I made you rich and you made me poor This refers to the favor the narrator did for the addict (opening a door to the addict's freedom), and how they used it to get what they wanted (making them rich) and in the process end up dying and taking away the narrator's loved one (stricken with great loss, so therefore poor) and ruining their idea of being together (so, thankless basically). Sorry for the rant. |
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