| Porcupine Tree – My Ashes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| im_a_pirate, don't just accept what's on wikipedia as the truth. Not trying to offend you or anything, but you should have your own opinion about the music. | |
| Porcupine Tree – The Nostalgia Factory Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| These lyrics are pretty literal i think... It's just a song telling a (weird) story. | |
| Porcupine Tree – My Ashes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song is about someone who has lost their inner child, because the problems given to them by their parents made them become mature at an early age. Their inner child is represent as the ashes. When he sees the boy on a bike, it reminds him if himself when he was young. The photos under the bed are all that remains if this inner child. Yet eventually, sleeping one night, he discovers the joys of his inner child again, and embraces them once more. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Small Fish Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I have a different interpreation to you people.. It's the first thing that came into my head when i read the lyrics. I think it's about "Sardine Killing" which was a method of extermination used by the Nazis. The "small fish" represents one person being killed by the nazis. Sardine killing --> small fish. That's how I made that connection. The "fisherman" was a nazi, who came and took the person away. He seems friendly at first "..smiled at me" and tricks him into going with him. The empty people dressed in grey are other people being taken out to be killed, and the sea they are floating into is the field where they are to be killed. The rain lashing down is literate - it is raining. The lizard blinking an eye is a non-Jewish person who witnesses all of this but does nothing. Time seems to stop for the person as he sees another person being shot - the small fish giving a cry. That section is repeated a few times, and I consider it the chorus. As for the second and third "verses". The whole 3nd verse is about how he is walking to the killing ground, and realises what is happening. The children's dreams smouldering is literate as well - children were being taken too, and their dreams were fading away as they realise what is happening. In the last verse reflects the sardine killings a lot - he lies down in the hole with all the other "sardines", who are the other victims. They are described as "fields of empty people laying down to die", which accurately describes sardine killing. If you want to know what sardine killing is, look it up on wikipedia. (Sorry that this interpretation is pretty sick, but the lyrics reminded me of this instantly). |
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